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We filed suit on behalf of our client Cancer Therapeutics Laboratories (CTL), a California-based biopharmaceutical company, against a former joint venture partner in a licensing dispute over Tumor Necrosis Therapy (TNT), an antibody technology that locates and kills cancer cells. The licensing agreement between the two partners stipulated that CTL’s research results and products using […]
JMBM served as legal counsel for the sale of a neonatal physician group based in Lancaster, California, to Pediatrix Medical Group, Inc. (NYSE: PDX), a leading provider of neonatal, fetal and pediatric subspecialty physician services. Our client joined the 860 doctors and 350 nurse practitioners in 32 states that work with Pediatrix. The sale involved […]
Working with colleagues throughout the firm, the Global Hospitality Group® completed all zoning and land use entitlements for what is considered to be the most ambitious mixed-use development in the current revitalization of Los Angeles’ historic Hollywood district. We represented our client, leading New York developer The Clarett Group, throughout the entire process. The mixed-use […]
In the summer of 2007, the Global Hospitality Group closed the $250 million senior debt portion of the financing on one of the largest single hotel mixed-use projects in the country. The complex construction loan transaction was for our client, a leading credit institution headquartered in Germany, and, at the time particularly renowned for very […]
The hospitality attorneys in JMBM’s Global Hospitality Group focus on representing owners, developers and lenders. We have intentionally built our practice to avoid representing the traditional major hotel brands (such as Marriott, Hilton, Starwood, InterContinental, Hyatt and the like) so we will always be conflict-free in being adverse to them. We have negotiated, re-negotiated, litigated […]
We recently negotiated the multi-million dollar sale of several famous French paintings, with special emphasis on assuring the buyer that the artwork had never been stolen during the centuries since it was created. It was particularly important to ensure that the works had not been part of the Nazi artwork looting during World War II. […]
JMBM partner and Family Office Group founder and chairman Timothy Lappen was selected for inclusion in Worth Magazine’s list of “Top 100 Attorneys in the United States” for his decades of distinguished service as the trusted business and personal advisor to individuals of high net worth. JMBM partner Gordon Schaller was named to the Worth […]
JMBM lawyers, acting on behalf of the California Mining Association, filed suit against the South Coast Air Quality Management District (SCAQMD) challenging its adoption of a new regulation. As part of the settlement we achieved for our client, the SCAQMD was required to amend the regulation and allow a high wind exemption critical to CMA […]
Supporting a client’s $1.1 billion transaction, JMBM lawyers conducted environmental due diligence for 248 golf courses throughout the United States and several foreign countries. Because such sites are often built on landfills, our efforts involved managing five international environmental engineering and consulting firms to conduct Phase I and Phase II testing for hazardous material contamination. […]
JMBM environmental lawyers successfully resolved a CERCLA cost recovery and common law action relating to an Inland Empire aluminum smelter after obtaining summary adjudication on all CERCLA claims. We successfully prosecuted CERCLA, RCRA and common law claims on behalf of a property owner against the lessee of a former gun range facility in the city […]
