| When you hire an outside general counsel (OGC) from Davis Wright Tremaine, you get a lawyer who can perform two key functions: serve as an efficient single point of contact for all your legal issues and provide practical legal perspective as a member of, or advisor to, your senior management team.
Your OGC handles the company’s day-to-day and strategic legal matters, and can draw upon the resources of the entire firm, as necessary, to provide specialized assistance with specific areas such as employment, tax and intellectual property. Your OGC has the practical business experience to complement their legal skills, allowing them to provide valuable advice to senior management and your board of directors.
We can offer a variety of custom-tailored pricing options for OGC services to meet your company’s particular needs. |
Selected Experience Numerous acquisitions of lumber, building materials, and home component manufacturing businesses throughout the United States. (Ongoing) Serve as general counsel to top Pacific Northwest-based restaurant group. (Ongoing) Serve as general counsel to client, a lobbying and trade organization for private art dealers. (Ongoing) Serve as lead construction counsel for a large regional association of water districts. (Ongoing) Represent client, a prominent Seattle art gallery, serving as its outside general counsel. (Ongoing) Serve as general counsel to National LambdaRail, Inc., a nationwide fiber optic network providing broadband capacity for leading edge research, next generation network services and applications, customized support for individual researchers and projects and other opportunities for network collaboration and innovation. (Ongoing) Davis Wright Tremaine has proudly represented the Seattle Art Museum for more than 65 years. Currently serving as outside general counsel, handling and providing advice on a variety of matters, including intellectual property rights with respect to works in the permanent collection and loaned works; provenance and good title; acquisition of art works; NAGPRA; preparation, negotiation and analysis of purchase and sale agreements, loan agreements, commission agreements and exhibition agreements; tax exempt organizations; charitable gifts; corporate governance; tax exempt bond transactions; labor and employment law; and real estate transactions. (Ongoing) Outside legal counsel to American Seafoods, a large integrated commercial fishing company involved in operations in the Bering Sea/Alaska, Massachusetts and Alabama, providing counsel on matters of corporate governance, commercial finance, vessel acquisition and finance, and labor/employment. (Ongoing) Outside legal counsel to Avista, a large regulated electric and gas utility involved in the production, transmission and distribution of energy and other energy-related businesses, including regulated electric and natural gas utilities in the Pacific Northwest. (Ongoing) Outside legal counsel to Summit Power Group, an independent developer of power generation facilities, including traditional thermal power plants (coal and natural gas), wind power facilities, and developing clean energy technologies (solar, gasified coal). (Ongoing) Negotiation and documentation of engineering, procurement and construction contracts for electricity generating projects in Washington, Oregon, Idaho, and Texas. (Ongoing) | | Search Experience | | | |  |
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