Chair, Business & Corporate Practice Group

Representative Experience
Representation of owners in the sale of the National Basketball Association team, the Vancouver Grizzlies

Representation of Tyson Foods, Inc. in multi-state sale of their seafood division

Representation of Japanese lease companies in structured sale of 25 Boeing aircraft

Purchase and finance of major fish processing company

Prior Experience
Senior foreign legal consultant to the firm of Lee & Ko in Seoul, Korea

Representative Clients
John E. McCaw, Jr., Orca Bay Capital Corporation, Canadian Hotel Income Properties, Tyson Foods, Inc. and Services Group of America

Publications and Presentations
Frequent speaker on topics concerning lawyer ethics, the representation of clients in international transactions and investment in the maritime industry

Memberships and Activities
Named as one of the "Best Lawyers in America" in by Woodward/White, 2006; 2007; 2008

Listed as one of Seattle’s Top 90 Business Lawyers in Seattle Business Monthly, 2007

Listed as one of Puget Sound's Top Business Lawyers by Seattle Business Monthly, 2006

Named as one of "America's Leading Business Lawyers" by Chambers USA, 2003-2006

Selected to "Super Lawyers," Washington Law & Politics, 2000-2008

Seattle-King County, Western District of Washington and Ninth Circuit Court of Appeal Bar Associations

Chair of Conflicts of Law Subcommittee of Business Law Section of WSBA

Maritime Law Association of the United States

Washington State Bar Association

Member, Board of Trustees, Greater Seattle Chamber of Commerce

Education
J.D., University of Washington School of Law, 1981

• Order of the Coif
  
• Articles Editor, Washington Law Review

B.A. in Political Science, University of Washington, 1978