Client Successes

We secured the first Transportation Infrastructure Finance and Innovation Act (TIFA) 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 secured nearly $10 million in federal funds for Tradepoint Atlantic, an intermodal global logistics hub in Baltimore, Maryland, through the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Port Infrastructure Development Grant (PIDG).

We assisted a corporate technology company client with securing a 10-year lease of a data center in the Pacific Northwest from a leading national data center provider, with the option to renew the space for two additional five-year periods.

We secured a $150,000 grant from Go-Biz on behalf of the County of Monterey for a cannabis equity assessment and a $1 million grant for a county-wide cannabis initiative.

Representing a family against the City of Morro Bay, we negotiated a favorable settlement addressing fair compensation and ensuring appropriate development rights. 

We helped T-Mobile defend the legality of its contracts and uphold the efficient and cost-effective path of arbitration for their customers.

Amid government office closures, we assisted the Port of Long Beach in selling its interim administrative office building.

We represented a small liquor store owner in the transfer of an alcohol license to a gas station mini-mart operator after her husband was arrested and charged for committing a felony.

We negotiated a new lease with a reduced footprint and construction contract for a U.S. tech company for its Canadian office.

We represented four independent oil producers in litigation against a non-profit mutual water company that had assisted our clients in disposing of wastewater produced in the operation of their oil, gas and hydrocarbon businesses.

After multiple years of hard-fought and contentious litigation, we negotiated a full resolution of the dispute that included the sale of a country club to a homeowner’s association.

We successfully compelled individual arbitration of a putative Fair Labor Standards Act collective action alleging purported minimum wage violations.

We represented a public pension system in its acquisition of a multi-floor office building for use as its headquarters.

We represented a real estate company in leasing out three buildings.

We helped a regional real estate developer and an institutional investor form a new entity to jointly develop projects in the Mid-Atlantic.

We represented our medical group client through a corporate restructuring that would allow it to admit new partners.