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• I represent all types of stakeholders in business restructuring. This work touches every issue that can affect a business, including financing, corporate governance, real estate, intellectual property, and.
• Representing a large Internet search company in bankruptcy cases throughout the country, including defending preference actions and claims objections, collecting administrative claims, and negotiating terms for.
• Negotiating the acquisition of intellectual property from the foreclosure of a failed biotech company.
• Successfully appealing to the 9th Circuit to discharge a client's $40 million personal-tax liability. Hawkins v. Franchise Tax Board 769 F.3d 662 (9th Cir. 2014).
• Defending a multi-party exchange of ten properties from attack as a fraudulent conveyance with early discovery and partial summary adjudication.
• Negotiating the wind-up of solar-power contractor to allow for completion of a major solar facility.

During the dot.com boom, I shifted my practice from litigation to IP negotiation. I negotiated and drafted software and patent licenses and related joint-development agreements and servicing contracts. This work included negotiating the use of software protected by open-source licenses to both respect those licenses and meet the needs of developers and.

My work focused on commercial litigation in all chapters of bankruptcy and in every type and size of business. I also negotiated the sale of all types of assets --from a jewelers inventory to a back-country hunting resort--and conducted extensive financial analysis of debtor's records for fraud. When the firm broke up in 2000, I went with the.

B.A., Philosophy

J.D., With Distinction

Activities and Societies: I completed the degree in a two-year accelerated study programCo-authored "Model Human Reproductive Technologies.