Client Collaborations
All Representative Cases
Counseled manufacturer in structuring and negotiating a complex construction loan facility to mitigate potential damages arising from use of the manufacturer’s product.
Regularly provide guidance to clients relating to issues surrounding shipping, import, and export of hemp and hemp-derived CBD, including communications with the United States Postal Service.
Successfully negotiated and contested the U.S. Customs and Border Patrol's seizure of product imported by clients in the cannabis industry.
Represented real estate brokerage in defending a False Claims Act suit brought by an purported whistleblower. Obtained dismissal of the claim on the basis that the court lacked subject matter jurisdiction because plaintiffs were not the original source of the information on which the claim was based.
Delay and defective construction litigation for new mid-rise residential building in Portland. Successfully litigated with lead counsel complex, multiparty delay, payment, contract value, and defective construction claims for developer of a new, mid-rise luxury residential building in downtown Portland. Four years of litigation involved five separate actions; multiple liens and foreclosures by subcontractors; significant delay, cost, and GMP claims between the developer and general contractor; and several separate defect claims involving insurance coverage. Different claims and actions were mediated, arbitrated, negotiated, and litigated with uniformly successful results.
Representing Northwest-based companies in international arbitration for disputes with foreign suppliers and customers.
In re Louisiana Pacific Corporation Securities Litigation. Shareholders brought a nationwide class-action securities fraud case because of a decline in the company’s stock price after significant losses in product liability litigation. The case was settled before trial, but only after extensive and complex litigation.
Assisted court-appointed receiver in disposition of dozens of real properties in numerous states.
Negotiated the terms of a mezzanine debt intercreditor agreement on behalf of senior construction lenders to a cold‐storage facility.