Client Successes Archive

We secured a stay of the suspension of Medicaid program payments to a specialty pharmacy dispensing and distributing HIV/AIDS medication to vulnerable and low-income populations.

We advised a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization in an Internal Revenue Code section 150(d)(3) conversion.

We represented the Port of Long Beach in acquiring 28.6 acres of waterfront and submerged lands that comprise three parcels in Pier D in the Long Beach harbor.

We advised a health plan and independent practice association (IPA) based in Northern California on their merger and sale to a rapidly expanding population health management company headquartered in Nevada.

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.

We achieved a successful result on behalf of both the buyer and seller of a California water company. We secured full approval from the CPUC—with amicable waivers obtained all around—and upheld state policy encouraging consolidation of smaller water systems.

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.

We worked with the Nebraska Department of Transportation (NDOT) to bring a decades-long highway project to life.

We handled the liquor licensing transfer applications for a new boutique hotel in downtown Los Angeles.

We’re advising on a new transit service to offer flexible, affordable, ADA compliant on-demand service in Los Angeles County.

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 represented a water agency in a matter involving groundwater contamination.

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 are helping reduce congestion on one of the most congested roadways in Texas. 

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.

We proudly advised the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa’s first major design-build project – its 70,000-square-foot Life Sciences building. 

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.

On July 16, 2020, California’s Fourth Appellate District Court issued a published decision in favor of firm client Imperial Irrigation District (IID) in a dispute between a farmer in the district and IID over IID’s rights to Colorado River water. The published opinion can be found at Michael Abatti, et al. v. Imperial Irrigation District (2020 S.O.S. 3585).

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 revised the charter documents of a large medical center and its affiliated medical group, including the medical group’s general partnership agreement.

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.

We constructed a contracting and data protection model for Hospital Quality Institute to perform data analyses for up to 380 hospitals, integrating vendors and hospital trade associations.

We helped WSDOT replace a key element of the aging Alaskan Way Viaduct with a state of the art tunnel to better manage traffic while opening prime waterfront real estate for development.

We represented Sonoma County Employees' Retirement Association through the superior and appellate court proceedings that affirmed that plaintiff's challenge to the payment of increased public employee pension benefits was barred by the statute of limitations.

We helped LCRA Transmission Services obtain an incidental take permit under the Endangered Species Act that encompasses 22 species of wildlife and covers 95% of Texas counties.

We defended the City of Bakersfield in several CEQA challenges to planned regional transportation system improvements.

We helped our client to acquire, lease out and finance a former Playboy production studio.