Business Lawyer
Practice Areas: Business, Litigation, Real Estate
OUTCOME: Ongoing
Sole counsel representing a publicly-traded construction services franchisor and its board of directors with respect to a complex go-private transaction involving a leveraged hostile tender offer to ov ... er 1,300 shareholders, and also with respect to debt workouts and numerous other lead-up transactions in a highly volatile regulatory environment.
OUTCOME: Client's desired complex corporate structure realized.
Formed multiple offshore pass-through entities pursuant to the laws of the British Virgin Islands in furtherance of complex corporate structure sought by Chinese electronics recycling conglomerate, wit ... h ongoing consultation with its Hong Kong-based counsel.
OUTCOME: Secured in excess of $100,000 in gross collection on lost/destroyed cashier's checks issued decades earlier and never deposited.
Filed suit pursuant to Chapter 3 of the Texas Uniform Commercial Code against a national bank to enforce numerous cashier's checks that were issued 20+ years before presentment, most of which had been ... lost or destroyed; following joinder of the defendant bank's check-processing vendor and the Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts, secured $100,000 in gross collection in mediation.
OUTCOME: Take-nothing summary judgment granted in client's favor
Secured a final take-nothing summary judgment in favor of a clean energy technology manufacturer, disposing of claims brought by a convertible note holder alleging breach of contract and securities vio ... lations, and seeking $1.2 million in damages and attorney’s fees.
OUTCOME: Successfully settled two concurrently filed suits in mediation
Filed a wrongful foreclosure suit following a commercial foreclosure of a property valued at approximately $900,000, and concurrently represented the wrongful foreclosure plaintiff/borrower in defense ... of the foreclosing lender's suit to collect an alleged post-foreclosure deficiency in excess of $300,000. Successfully settled both suits in mediation with an agreement by which the client paid less than 15% of the damages and fees sought by the lender.
OUTCOME: Successfully tried forcible detainer action over long-term commercial lease and secured dismissal of related tenant litigation
Two-day bench trial of consolidated cases: successfully sued long-term commercial tenant for forcible detainer following numerous tenant defaults, regaining possession of premises by writ of possession ... on client's behalf; successfully defended landlord in related reentry action filed by tenant's agent, securing complete dismissal in client's favor.
OUTCOME: Minority position successfully acquired.
Sole counsel to a family office investment entity with respect to its $85 million purchase of all outstanding preferred shares in a privately held global accounting firm in a transaction that was struc ... tured over an 18-month period and included interrelated membership purchase agreements, a $50 million secured project finance deal, operating agreements governing the target firm’s multi-tiered corporate structure, and a $300 million credit facility agreement issued to the target firm by a consortium of lenders; continued ongoing representation of the client with respect to the transaction and its preferred interest in the target firm.
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