Practice Areas
CORPORATE AND BUSINESS MATTERS. The firm represents clients in various types of business transactions, as well as organization and restructuring of business entities, including venture capital, joint venture, and other entrepreneurial transactions. The firm also advises parties in connection with workout transactions.
REAL ESTATE TRANSACTIONS. We represent clients in a wide variety of real estate matters, including purchases and sales, financing transactions, and development projects. The firm has developed a subspecialty of assisting in low income housing projects and their bond financing.
FEDERAL AND STATE TAXATION. We offer tax planning for businesses and individuals. The firm is also regularly involved in representation of taxpayers in tax controversies with the Internal Revenue Service and the Department of Taxation of the State of Hawaii. The firm has provided tax counsel in most of the major business bankruptcies and many of the loan workouts in Hawaii over the past 30 years.
BANKRUPTCY AND INSOLVENCY. The firm has represented a major party in almost every major bankruptcy and insolvency case in Hawaii over the past thirty years. We have represented trustees, debtors-in-possession, state court receivers, secured and unsecured lenders, and equity holders in various bankruptcy and insolvency proceedings. The firm has also represented the State of Hawaii, as its special counsel, in bankruptcy cases and insolvency proceedings.
BUSINESS AND COMMERCIAL LITIGATION. We represent clients in litigation in the federal and state courts, as well as in arbitration and mediation proceedings. Our cases have involved real estate disputes, directors and officers liability, securities fraud, complex and multi-district litigation, insurance coverage litigation, landlord-tenant issues, disputed probate cases, environmental liability, franchise controversies, construction defects disputes, mortgage foreclosures and other debt collection matters, and many other issues.
ESTATE PLANNING AND ASSET PROTECTION. We provide estate planning, probate, and asset protection planning for our business clients and for Hawaii individuals and their families.