The Firm was lead counsel in a successful trial court challenge to school impact fees.
After precedent-breaking litigation, JMBM client, United Rock Products Corporation, and the city of Irwindale, California reached agreement to extend the life of the Irwindale quarries for 25 years. The transaction is most notable for the creation of a joint powers authority between the city of Irwindale and the Irwindale Reclamation Authority. Under the arrangement, the […]
JMBM partners represented a securitized lender — acting by and through GMAC Commercial Mortgage Corporation as special servicer — which was the holder of a $60 million loan secured by a Deed of Trust on the Clift Hotel located in San Francisco, in a Chapter 11 bankruptcy case filed by the Clift Hotel and in […]
JMBM attorneys were able to negotiate federal consent decrees for a regional auto dismantling firm, resolving alleged violations of the Clean Water Act involving 14 separate sites.
On behalf of a family-owned private company JMBM partners negotiated the sale of $150 million in assets in 20 states, completed in 2004 and 2005*.
JMBM attorneys successfully prosecuted an inverse condemnation action against the City of San Diego for regulatory takings of property located in the San Dieguito River Valley.
JMBM served as legal counsel to Intravenous Therapy Services in the $13 million sale of the company to BioScrip Inc. The Burbank, Calif.-based home infusion pharmaceutical provider will operate under publicly held BioScrip’s infusion division, but will continue to be run by its current president and CEO.
JMBM’s Government, Land Use, Environmental and Energy Group represented the Clarett Group and Prudential Real Estate in obtaining development entitlement approvals for a major mixed-use development to exceed one million square feet on Hollywood Boulevard adjoining the Pantages Theatre. The project includes 1,042 apartment units and 175,000 square feet of retail.
JMBM successfully completed an arbitration between national clothing and accessories brands Cherokee Inc. and Mossimo, Inc. in a case concerning monies owed to Cherokee as a result of Mossimo entering into a finder’s fee agreement with Cherokee. JMBM’s Intellectual Property group lawyers negotiated the original finder’s fee agreement for Cherokee. It was this agreement that […]
In a case brought before the New Motor Vehicle Board in Sacramento, JMBM partners successfully defeated a dealer’s protest against the proposed establishment of a new Volkswagen dealership by the firm’s client Volkswagen of America, approximately 5 miles from the protesting dealership. JMBM then defeated the dealer’s appeal of the Board’s decision, thus winning the […]