Tobin & Tobin,
a professional corporation, is engaged in the general practice of law,
providing representation to financial institutions, the commercial real
estate industry, diverse businesses and major nonprofits.
General Business Counseling
The firm provides legal representation, principally in California, to
foreign as well as domestic clients. The practice includes general corporate
advice to a variety of business clients, from publicly-held and closely-held
corporations to individual entrepreneurs. This includes corporate formation
and operation as well as the related general business problems of corporations,
general and limited partnerships, joint ventures, sole proprietorships
and other business forms. The firm's financial services group emphasizes
public and private financings and other corporate securities and transactional
matters. It deals with venture capital funding for start up and developing
companies, initial and secondary public offerings and mortgage and asset
securitizations for financial institutions.
The firm also performs general business contract drafting and review work including service, vendor, distribution, employment and franchise agreements.
Real
Estate
A substantial area of the practice involves real estate development and
financing, consisting of a broad range of traditional and innovative transactions.
The firm's clientele includes developers, institutional and non-institutional
lenders, investors, mortgage brokers, real estate brokers, title companies,
sellers and purchasers, as well as commercial and residential landlords
and tenants. Tobin & Tobin does land development work for clients
in areas such as public and private development and construction financing,
mechanics lien law, condominium and cooperative development and conversion,
formation and operation of real estate limited partnerships, real estate
syndication, subdivision law, real property sale and exchanges, secured
real property transactions, leasing, taxation and related matters of environmental
quality, zoning, and historic preservation.
Litigation
Tobin & Tobin handles all types of commercial, business and bankruptcy
litigation. The firm also practices in all areas of real estate litigation,
including condemnation, land subsidence, foreclosure, title insurance,
broker defense, construction defect and environmental litigation.
The litigation attorneys practice in the California Superior and Appellate
Courts and are admitted to practice before all the Federal Courts in the
State.
Tobin & Tobin encourages alternative dispute resolution. The attorneys
have initiated and defended claims before the American Arbitration Association
and the various private mediation and arbitration groups organized within
the State.
Employment
Issues
The firm provides representation to employers in the negotiation and drafting
of employment and severance contracts and provides legal assistance to
employers in their ongoing relationships to their employees.
The firm represents employers in the defense of wrongful termination and
harassment suits and in the defense of claims arising out of employee
misconduct in both federal and state courts.
Environmental
A growing area of the practice involves energy and environmental activities,
consisting of a broad spectrum of transactions and environmental matters.
Tobin & Tobin's clientele includes exploration companies, production
companies, trading companies, alternate energy project developers, sellers
and buyers. The firm does project development work for clients in areas
such as negotiation of power sales agreements with utility and private
purchasers, construction contractors, construction and project financing
and joint venture development.
Tobin & Tobin has assisted a number of its financial institution clients
in addressing the issues presented by state, federal and local regulation
of toxic waste containment and cleanup. The firm advises clients in this
regard both in their capacity as secured creditors and as owners of property
affected by toxic waste
Estate
Planning and Probate
The firm counsels individual and corporate trust clients in all aspects
of estate planning, probate, trust administration and related tax planning.
This also includes advice to corporate trust departments on operational
and investment issues.
Nonprofit
Corporations
The firm counsels religious, charitable and other not-for-profit organizations
relative to their formation and operation.
FINANCIAL
SERVICES PRACTICE
Financial
services clients include banks, savings and loan associations, credit
unions, mortgage lenders, and the financing departments of companies in
the service, manufacturing and retail industries. The firm provides a
wide range of legal services for these entities.
Business
and Corporate Matters
The firm provides general business advice to its financial services clients.
The firm structures and documents a variety of corporate transactions
including formations, charter changes, mergers, acquisitions, dispositions
and asset/liability management activities. It advises on securities matters,
including periodic securities reporting
Lending
and Corporate Finance
The firm represents its financial services clients as lenders, participants
or borrowers in connection with secured and unsecured finance transactions.
The firm handles commercial, corporate, real property secured and agricultural
loans, construction and permanent commercial real estate loans, accounts
receivable, inventory and equipment financing, tax oriented leverage lease
transactions, equipment lease financing and sale/leaseback of real and
personal property.
Operations,
Compliance and Regulatory Matters
The firm provides full-service legal advice to its financial institution
clients including general regulatory, operations and compliance advice
relating to the day-to-day business of those clients. Members of our financial
institutions practice group provide ongoing support including training
to various bank operating units such as branch operations and administrative
service units, security and loss recovery units, loan review and audit
teams, documentation and procedures units and special assets units.
Bankruptcy
and Insolvency
Tobin & Tobin has represented both secured
and unsecured creditors in loan workouts as well as in major bankruptcy proceedings. Expertise in
this field adds an important dimension to the firm's ability
to represent the interests of its financial institution and commercial
clients.
Tobin & Tobin also has the capacity to handle clients' routine relief-from-stay
and eviction matters generated on an ongoing basis by typical consumer
loan portfolios. The firm handles these matters throughout California
in an expeditious, cost-effective manner.
Litigation
Tobin & Tobin has considerable experience handling litigation unique
to financial institutions, such as lender liability matters, defense of
trust department investment policies, defense of check and bank operation
cases, credit card litigation and consumer class actions. The firm's clients,
as secured and unsecured lenders and as owners of real property, frequently
face litigation involving loan restructuring or foreclosure, construction
defects or environmental issues.
