Client Collaborations
All Representative Cases
Successfully negotiated and assisted owner’s legal team with development of complicated CM/GC contract for construction of a large new fabrication facility for a major technology company. The contract required significant, detailed specifications and terms that were heavily negotiated to the owner’s overall benefit.
Assisted school districts with judicial validation proceedings regarding bond measures.
Mass Action Contingency Recovery in Fraud Case. Represented some 70 investors who collectively lost nearly $100 million as result of a Ponzi scheme by a Lake Oswego investment company, Aequitas Management, LLC. Obtained favorable settlements from third-party professionals in state court and private arbitration, resulting in a gross recovery exceeding clients’ investment losses. Recovery was the largest contingency recovery in the 140-year history of the law firm.
Assisted nonprofit developer in rehabilitation of a historic building and converting it into affordable housing. Advised with respect to structuring the multiple sources of financing. Assisted in negotiations regarding and documentation of bank financing and investment by equity investor.
Represented Clark County PUD in navigating final action procedures and pre-condemnation of transmission easement.
Obtained favorable settlement for a client in an adverse possession case in Texas.
Represented land owners in suit against adjoining development over easement rights and obtained full summary judgment in favor of landowners.
Successfully negotiated construction easement and construction contract among multiple public and private parties for reconstruction of neighbor’s adjoining wall to permit construction of new affordable housing project. Intricate negotiation of multiple intersecting interests in properties and new wall, including care for displaced tenants and a two-phase construction process to maintain operations of neighboring property and critical path of affordable housing construction.