Legal Services & Lawyers

More than twenty years of diverse experience as a trial attorney representing and counseling domestic and international clients in a vast array of matters. More than ten years of experience providing arbitration, mediation and other ADR services involving many domestic and international issues. Representation and ADR services have included: REAL ESTATE (purchase/sale, title, easements, financing, mortgage lending:underwriting - securitization, leases, fraud, environmental, receivership, foreclosure, appraisal/valuation); BUSINESS & CORPORATE (purchase and sale, formation: corporation - partnership - joint venture - LLC - LLP, capitalization, equity adjustment, fiduciary duties, D&O liability, executive compensation, internal investigations, fraud, business torts, unfair competition); COMMERCIAL (contracts, warranties, UCC, covenants not to compete, shipping); SECURITIES (SEC civil enforcement actions; private securities litigation and arbitration, including fraud, churning & suitability issues); TECHNOLOGY (semiconductors, semiconductor assembly, testing & packaging, commercial and consumer electronic device qualification, manufacturing and reliability, epidemic failures, root cause analysis, OEM / ODM contracting, manufacturing and supply chain, licensing, medical devices); CONSTRUCTION (public works, False Claim Act, licensing, differing conditions, scheduling & delay, architect of record consultants, means & methods); FINANCE & LENDING (commercial lending, asset backed lending, real property secured lending, letters of credit, credit facilities & enhancements, acquisition and construction financing, mortgage brokerage, mortgage banking and lending, underwriting, subprime & Alt-A, predatory lending, equity purchase, wrongful foreclosure, lender liability, secondary markets, warehouse lines of credit, repurchase demands); INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY (patent licensing, royalty structures and disputes, copyright infringement); PROBATE, TRUSTS & ESTATES (will contests, trust administration, beneficiary disputes); ELDER ABUSE (financial elder abuse, caregiver overreaching, care facility issues).