Client Successes Archive

After multiple years of hard-fought and contentious litigation, we negotiated a full resolution of the dispute that included the sale of a country club to a homeowner’s association.

On July 16, 2020, California’s Fourth Appellate District Court issued a published decision in favor of firm client Imperial Irrigation District (IID) in a dispute between a farmer in the district and IID over IID’s rights to Colorado River water. The published opinion can be found at Michael Abatti, et al. v. Imperial Irrigation District (2020 S.O.S. 3585).

We successfully compelled individual arbitration of a putative Fair Labor Standards Act collective action alleging purported minimum wage violations.

We represented a public pension system in its acquisition of a multi-floor office building for use as its headquarters.

We represented a real estate company in leasing out three buildings.

We revised the charter documents of a large medical center and its affiliated medical group, including the medical group’s general partnership agreement.

We helped a regional real estate developer and an institutional investor form a new entity to jointly develop projects in the Mid-Atlantic.

We represented our medical group client through a corporate restructuring that would allow it to admit new partners.

We constructed a contracting and data protection model for Hospital Quality Institute to perform data analyses for up to 380 hospitals, integrating vendors and hospital trade associations.

We helped WSDOT replace a key element of the aging Alaskan Way Viaduct with a state of the art tunnel to better manage traffic while opening prime waterfront real estate for development.

We represented Sonoma County Employees' Retirement Association through the superior and appellate court proceedings that affirmed that plaintiff's challenge to the payment of increased public employee pension benefits was barred by the statute of limitations.

We helped LCRA Transmission Services obtain an incidental take permit under the Endangered Species Act that encompasses 22 species of wildlife and covers 95% of Texas counties.

We defended the City of Bakersfield in several CEQA challenges to planned regional transportation system improvements.

We helped our client to acquire, lease out and finance a former Playboy production studio.

We advised Australia and New Zealand’s largest independent valuation professional services firm on its strategic partnership with Apex Appraisal Service, Inc.

Nossaman assisted a large public pension system in its acquisition of a largely vacant office building in an underserved neighborhood to be used for its new retirement system headquarters.

We worked with leading California water associations to negotiate amendments to the recently adopted Waters of the State regulations to provide an exclusion for ongoing water supply and flood control related activities.

We helped Ventura Water obtain unanimous City Council approval of the VenturaWaterPure Project as well as certification of the project's EIR.

We are lead federal environmental litigation counsel for the largest single highway project in Arizona history, the $1.8 billion South Mountain Freeway Project.

We represented the Port of Long Beach in the forced divestiture of a leasehold interest in the Port by its most significant tenant, at the behest of the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS).

We obtained summary judgment from San Joaquin Superior Court in an over $200 million class action lawsuit brought against the San Joaquin County Employees’ Retirement Association and its Board of Retirement by a certified class of nearly 1,800 people.

We recently prevailed in a trial in the Western District of Washington regarding a claim against State Farm.

The cost of Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority’s Green Line Extension Project was ballooning.  They turned to us for help finding a more effective project delivery method.

We assisted Oakmont Senior Living LLC, a leading provider of assisted living and memory care facilities in California and Nevada, in the $399 million sale of eight senior living facilities to HCP, Inc.

We helped a businessman get his IRS penalties abated, in full, which approximated $300,000.

As a result of Nossaman’s efforts, all ROW was delivered on-time and under budget, without protracted litigation.

We assisted the City of Bakersfield with early project planning to address environmental challenges and acquire the necessary property interests.

Bringing public transit to the west-side had long been a dream in Los Angeles but it was always difficult to make it a reality

A successful defense against condemnation enabled the owner securing entitlements for a 450+ unit mixed-use residential development.

The crown jewel of LA Metro's Crenshaw/LAX Line is its 96th Street / Aviation station which will enable passengers to connect directly to LAX’s Automated People Mover.

After expert discovery concluded, we negotiated a favorable settlement with Caltrans agreeing to pay $4.5 million.

We negotiated a settlement that resulted in the County of Santa Barbara limiting its acquisition to the surface and entirely preserving Coldwater Farms’ mineral estate.

The Project involved the addition of a substation and miles of new 66kv Subtransmission lines spanning throughout San Bernardino County.

The successful resolution of this matter led to the Hotel receiving millions of dollars in compensation, along with the return of its key property and vested zoning rights

We were one of a few firms selected by LA Metro to help them navigate myriad issues.

This crucial project, a $2 billion, 11-mile trolley line extension from downtown San Diego to University City, will improve access in the region.

The California Court of Appeal for the First Appellate District recently handed down a unanimous decision in Greene v. Marin County Employees’ Retirement Association, denying the petitioner’s request for issuance of a writ of mandate on the ground of disqualifying bias. Nossaman LLP represented MCERA through the trial and appellate court proceedings.

We assisted the Arizona Department of Transportation in a build to suit and forward purchase matter when it sought to replace its Flagstaff office and other facilities.

Convincing the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas to overturn the USFWS’s denial to delist the Bone Cave Harvestman.

In a period of five months in 2019, Nossaman closed 13 loans totaling more than $302 million for a client who develops, constructs, owns, and operates multifamily housing on the West Coast.

We represented a public pension plan in forming a joint venture project as part of its build-to-core strategy to redevelop a historic industrial building in the Pacific Northwest into a mixed-use retail/office project.

We represented a public agency in negotiating a long-term ground lease with a developer so new housing can be constructed near a transit hub.

We negotiated a favorable dispute resolution for a government agency concerning the impact of nearby construction on their downtown San Francisco office building.

We successfully argued that the North Pacific Council’s Amendment 113 to the Bering Sea Groundfish Fisheries Management Plan did not comply with the Magnuson-Stevens Act.

We represented a well-known medical and scientific research institute in connection with issues involving the acquisition of industrial hemp for scientific study.

Nossaman provided corporate advice to two large medical groups on creating and revising charter documents.

We successfully filed and obtained temporary permits for a significant craft brewery in Northern California.

We are advising the City of Los Angeles, Los Angeles World Airports (LAWA) on its Consolidated Rent-a-Car Center (ConRAC) at the Los Angeles International Airport (LAX).

Nossaman assisted a California public pension system in the portfolio sale of six properties to a commingled real estate fund and the reinvestment of the proceeds. 

The California Public Utilities Commission voted to allow our client, California American Water Company, to proceed with its $322 million project.