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Barrie means business. Running a business can be challenging, even for the most sophisticated business executive. This is especially true when it comes to legal issues. Barrie has comprehensive experience with every kind of transaction that touches your operations. He also knows that you are the expert in your field, with expertise and resources that are invaluable to defining the best strategy for reaching your goals. 

Whether you are structuring a new enterprise, spelling out partnership agreements, drawing up lease agreements, dealing with compliance issues regarding zoning laws, tax laws, and regulations, negotiating complex mergers, acquisitions, and contracts, or trying to resolve potentially painful and costly business-related disputes, Barrie excels at identifying every advantage and efficiency - no matter how complex the transaction.

When it comes to the legal issues that affect your business, see why Barrie’s clients consider him a true business asset.

Practical Experience

Business Entity Organization
  • Performed due diligence and documentation for the acquisition of a long-established $3 million music retail business.
  • Performed due diligence for the acquisition of a $30 million gaming establishment.
  • Represented a business owner in a $20 million structured buyout of a Silicon Valley computer component fabricating company.

Leasing
  • Closed leasing deals in Florida, Vermont, Nebraska and Colorado for a sophisticated early-stage company new to real estate transactions.
  • Negotiated a 40,000-square-foot multi-story, long-term office lease with build-out in Sacramento on behalf of a health insurance company.

Creditors’ Rights
  • Foreclosed a client company’s security interest in a high-end restaurant and set up new management.
  • Obtained and recorded a judgment against a Colorado debtor trucking company in default on
    a $6 million loan.
  • Negotiated on behalf of a real estate investment partnership with the bankruptcy trustee of a defunct investment in oil-producing real estate to recover the partners’ $15 million investment.

Zoning and Planning
  • Represented the property owner in both approval of sale and change of use of a large urban warehouse property, now zoned for housing.

Regulatory Compliance
  • Advised the owner of a $4 million Northern California shopping center in a remediation program design and approval by state and county water quality agencies.
  • Negotiated with the state on behalf of the owner of a former gas station property in Northern California regarding underground tank removal and subsequent remediation.
  • Represented the owner of a former gas station property in Southern California, subsequently developed into an office building, in settlement of $13 million contamination claims.

Contract and Partnership Dispute Resolution
  • Renegotiated and restructured a $10 million golf course resort development limited liability company due to the retirement of a member.
  • Restructured a $20 million family real estate investment partnership into separate entities due to diverging goals and interests of family members.
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Case Study:
A Fitness Center's
Growing Pains

"If I wanted my business to keep growing, I knew I needed to streamline space leasing for all of my  storefronts. Barrie's an expert at this. He saved me a lot of money."...Ben D., Mill Valley, CA