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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 […]
JMBM scored a significant victory for the firm’s client, CEMEX, Inc., when the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals issued a published opinion in Center for Biological Diversity, et al. v. U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service, and CEMEX, Inc. The Center’s lawsuit challenged authorizations by the Service in favor of the Soledad Canyon Sand and Gravel […]
A jury found in favor of our client, a major independent film production company, awarding our client almost $2 million for the distributor’s breach of good faith and fair dealing. The jury also found in favor of our client on its claims that the other party was improperly accounting to our client on two major […]
A JMBM team representing Los Angeles orthopedic surgeon Dr. Gary K. Michelson won a jury trial verdict of $570 million (including $400 million in punitive damages), one of the largest in the country that year, against Medtronic Sofamor Danek, Inc. in a dispute over contract claims and patent rights involving spinal fusion implant technology. The […]
