Coni Rathbone focuses on real estate, corporate and securities law, mergers and acquisitions, and general business transactions. She regularly helps clients in the purchase, development and sale of commercial property. Coni works on securities transactions including private placements, focusing on real estate securities. She does significant work in corporate and limited liability company formation. Coni has significant expertise in representing tenant-in-common (TIC) sponsors and investors. She also serves as general counsel for several Oregon corporations.
Practice Highlights
Real Estate Transactional
- Vestas American Wind Technology - negotiate offices leases for client with unique business needs, as world's leading supplier of wind-power solutions.
- SANYO - $80,000,000 solar panel manufacturing project for a foreign company coming into Oregon and obtaining economic development incentives for the new jobs created.
Real Estate Securities
- American Equities - represented issuer in multiple Series 506 private placements involving mortgage participation securities. Work included: structuring complicated offering involving the issuance of promissory notes and membership interests in entities holding pools of real estate mortgages in the United States and Mexico; securities compliance; due diligence; investigation and drafting disclosures on Mexican real estate law; continuing general counsel relationship.
- Represent issuers in creating financing vehicles through securities transactions to fund real estate acquisitions and developments.
Sponsored TIC Work
- TREC Investment Realty - general counsel to TIC real estate sponsor; represent client in TIC syndication transactions, acquisitions and financings. Created tenant-in-common structure and documents.
- Represent owner groups for TIC properties in workout situations with TIC sponsors.
Corporate & Entities
- Snack Alliance - represented Canadian private-label snack manufacturer as general counsel in numerous acquisition and operational transactions. Work included: company strategic and tax planning; entity formations; corporate compliance; negotiating distribution agreements nationally and in Mexico; and negotiating manufacturing agreements nationally and in Mexico. Continuing general counsel relationship.