Experience

Representative Timberlands and Forest Products Industry Work

• Represented timberland investment management organization (TIMO) in the acquisition of approximately 646,700 acres of timberlands and other assets in the upper peninsula of Michigan.
• Represented private timberlands company in the acquisition of approximately 600,000 acres of timberlands in southern Oregon and northern California and related operating assets.
• Represented private timberlands company in the sale of over 170,000 acres of timberlands in multiple counties in California.
• Represented timberlands purchaser in the acquisition of over 158,000 acres of investment-grade timberlands in 18 counties spanning coastal North Carolina and southeastern Virginia.
• Represented TIMO in acquisition of membership interest in entity owning over 115,000 acres of investment-grade timberlands in Ohio and Kentucky.
• Represented private timberlands investment fund and its strategic industry partner in acquisition of approximately 112,000 acres of timberlands and related assets in northern California.
• Represented private timberlands company in the acquisition of approximately 29,000 acres of timberlands and related property in northern California.
• Represented TIMO in sale of over 18,000 acres in southern Oregon.
• Represented private timberlands company in the acquisition of approximately 17,500 acres of timberlands in Washington.
• Represented TIMO in sale of over 15,500 acres in northern Washington.
• Represented private timberlands company in the acquisition of approximately 9,300 acres of timberlands in Oregon.
• Represented TIMO in the auction sale of approximately 5,600 acres of timberlands and related assets in northwest Oregon.
• Represented private lumber products manufacturer in a corporate restructuring and follow-on sale of the entire ownership interest in a treated pole and lumber business in Washington.
• Represented forest products manufacturing business in acquisition of Douglas fir sawmill facility in western Oregon.
• Represented forest products manufacturing business in acquisition of remanufacturing facility and related real property in Idaho.
• Represented integrated forest products company in title, closing and corporate structuring aspects of a timberlands securitization and related financing transactions involving over 400,000 total acres of timberlands and aggregate debt obligations exceeding $550 million.
• Represent multiple private forest products companies in corporate and real property title aspects of ongoing financing arrangements and secured loan transactions.

Representative Mergers and Acquisitions Work

• Represented world-leading organic grower and producer in acquisition of a vegetable processing business and related real property assets in Georgia and Florida.
• Represented private telecommunications provider in the sale of substantially all of its cable system, high-speed internet, telephone, broadcast television and data center assets and businesses to strategic buyer.
• Represented private capital equipment manufacturer in a leveraged buyout of the controlling interest in its sawmill equipment manufacturing business by a private equity purchaser.
• Represented Fortune Global 500^® manufacturing company in the sale of its diesel engine and power systems distributorship business to strategic buyer.
• Represented private equipment manufacturer in the sale of all outstanding ownership interests in its specialty cooling products business to a private equity purchaser.
• Represented buyers in a purchase of an Oregon-based vineyard and winery business and related real property.

Other Representative Work

• Act as outside corporate counsel to large agricultural producer.
• Represented self-storage services company in its limited liability company formation and capitalization through secured membership loans.
• Represented majority owners of a financial services company in the negotiation, structuring and documentation of a contested minority shareholder buyout transaction.
• Represent architectural services and design firms in connection with corporate governance and firm professional licensing matters.
• Regularly represent businesses and individuals with entity formations, organizational documents, commercial contracts and other corporate matters.

Insights & Presentations

• Series faculty member, Oregon State University College of Forestry, Forest Business Solutions Group, Forest Products Management Development Series, Corvallis, Oregon, 2013-present
• Author, Stoel Rives LLP Sponsor’s Note, Portland Business Journal, “How Oregon Works: Oregon’s Workforce and the Job Skills Gap, Agriculture & Natural Resources Issue,” October 2018
• Presenter, “Anatomy of a Timberland Transaction,” Pacific Northwest Timberlands Management, The Seminar Group, March 16, 2018
• Presenter, “Contracts,” American Society of Consulting Arborists, 2017 Annual Conference, Stevenson, Washington, December 1, 2017
• Co-Author, 2015 Supplement to Chapter 8, “Timber and Timberlands,” Real Property Deskbook Vol. 3, Real Property Interests & Duties of Third Parties, Washington State Bar Association Continuing Legal Education (4th Ed. 2009)
• Speaker/Author, “Timber and Logging Law,” National Business Institute™ CLE Live Teleconference (simulcast online via West LegalEdCenter^®), Portland, Oregon, October 29, 2015.
• Presenter, “Contracts: A Practical Primer,” North American Wholesale Lumber Association, Executive Management Institute, Corvallis, Oregon, September 23, 2015
• Panelist, “Insurance Market Update: Forest Products/Building Materials Industry,” Marsh USA, Inc., Feb. 26, 2015