Client Successes

We successfully defended the County of Los Angeles against a $20 million lawsuit brought by a Malibu landowner embroiled in a quiet title action.

We are advising the Arizona Department of Transportation (ADOT) on improving Interstate 17, a key commerce corridor that sees more than one million travelers every year.

We assisted a Chapter 7 trustee with recovering real properties that the debtors fraudulently transferred to their son.

After years of effort, we recently received regulatory approval for our client, AmericasHealth Plan (AHP), to serve Medi-Cal members.

We counseled the University of Southern California on the recently announced collaboration between USC Fertility and HRC Fertility.

Assisting Opteon with regulatory and corporate/contractual due diligence, as well as the preparation and negotiation of the purchase agreement and ancillary documents, we helped bolster Opteon’s footprint in the U.S. market, and marked another milestone in a period of significant international growth for the company.

On behalf of Intrado Corporation, we led a multi-disciplinary team to secure approval from the California Department of Managed Health Care (DMHC) so it could complete its $690 million sale of Health Advocate to Teleperformance.

The California Third District Court of Appeal recently affirmed dismissal of a class action brought against our client, the San Joaquin County Employees’ Retirement Association.

We achieved a Court of Appeal victory upholding the requirement that cities obtain a local coastal program amendment or coastal development permit before regulating short-term vacation rentals in the coastal zone.

The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals reversed a district court order granting summary judgment to Travelers Insurance Company and ordered instead that our client, the San Joaquin County Employees’ Retirement Association (SJCERA), receive a full defense under the carrier’s policy.

We advised on the acquisition of water rights, valuation issues, and the resolution of a pending eminent domain action to help our client, Crystal Geyser Roxane, and the City of Weed, California.

We helped the Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority (VTA) advance joint development and transit-oriented projects in the Bay Area. We negotiated three agreements involving development of mixed-use projects next to VTA’s Blossom Hill, Tamien and Evelyn Stations.

We secured the first Transportation Infrastructure Finance and Innovation Act (TIFIA) loan under the Rural Projects Initiative on behalf of San Luis Obispo Regional Transportation Authority. This $13.08 million TIFIA loan will help construct a new bus maintenance and administration facility.

We helped our former and current industrial property owner clients prevail against a demand from a neighboring property owner for damages and cleanup costs allegedly resulting from historic contamination.

We worked closely with the Louisiana Department of Transportation and Development on the first project procured under their P3 Authority – the replacement of the Judge Perez Bridge and Belle Chasse Tunnel. As the primary access point for those in the Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana, the bridge and tunnel see over 33,000 vehicles per day.

We are proud to have played a role assisting the New York State Thruway Authority with replacement of the three-mile-long Tappan Zee Bridge over the Hudson River with The Governor Mario M. Cuomo Bridge, a new cable-stayed, dual-span structure designed to last 100 years. The crossing was long overdue for an upgrade due to the age of the existing bridge as well as increased traffic. 

We updated the corporate bylaws of a large medical center and its affiliated medical group in order to avoid potential shareholder and management disputes.