JMM Success Stories

Government and Land Use Selected CEQA Litigation Experience

JMBM’s Government, Land Use, Environment & Energy (GLUEE) lawyers offer comprehensive strategies for clearing the many environmental hurdles that confront all proposed projects before, during, and after development. Environmental approvals are particularly complex for the many projects we represent in California where, as part of the development process, we prepare and review documentation to ensure […]

Bankruptcy, Creditors' Rights, Distressed Assets & Real Estate and Real Estate Representative List of Distressed Assets and Real Estate Matters

JMBM’s Distressed Assets and Real Estate Group comprises a team of experienced finance, real estate, bankruptcy, tax and land use lawyers. Whether it is a solution to a problem or the response to an opportunity, we mobilize quickly to address the complex issues surrounding distressed real estate and other assets. To position our clients for […]

Corporate and Mergers & Acquisitions JMBM served as lead transaction counsel for Web Service Company, LLC and its majority owner in its sale to Code Hennessy & Simmons LLC (CHS).

JMBM REPRESENTS WEB SERVICE COMPANY IN SALE TO CODE HENNESSY & SIMMONS Jeffer Mangels Butler & Marmaro LLP (JMBM), one of California’s foremost full-service law firms, served as lead transaction counsel for Web Service Company, LLC and its majority owner in its sale to Code Hennessy & Simmons LLC (CHS). The transaction closed on August […]

Government JMBM helped an aggregate mining operator secure federal and local permits

The Firm successfully represented an aggregate mining operator secure federal and local permits for the largest federally-contracted construction aggregate project in the United States.

JMBM helped to successfully challenge school impact fees in court

The Firm was lead counsel in a successful trial court challenge to school impact fees.

Litigation JMBM led precedent-breaking litigation to reach an agreement between a mining operation and the city of Irwindale, California to extend the life of the Irwindale quarries

After precedent-breaking litigation, JMBM client, United Rock Products Corporation, and the city of Irwindale, California reached agreement to extend the life of the Irwindale quarries for 25 years. The transaction is most notable for the creation of a joint powers authority between the city of Irwindale and the Irwindale Reclamation Authority. Under the arrangement, the […]

Bankruptcy and Creditors' Rights For a securitized lender: JMBM managed the negotiation and sale of a $60 million mortgage loan to a third party

JMBM partners represented a securitized lender — acting by and through GMAC Commercial Mortgage Corporation as special servicer — which was the holder of a $60 million loan secured by a Deed of Trust on the Clift Hotel located in San Francisco, in a Chapter 11 bankruptcy case filed by the Clift Hotel and in […]

Environmental For a regional auto dismantling firm: JMBM negotiated federal consent decrees resolving alleged violations of the Clean Water Act

JMBM attorneys were able to negotiate federal consent decrees for a regional auto dismantling firm, resolving alleged violations of the Clean Water Act involving 14 separate sites.

Mergers & Acquisitions JMBM negotiated the sales of $150 million in assets in 20 states for a family-owned company

On behalf of a family-owned private company JMBM partners negotiated the sale of $150 million in assets in 20 states, completed in 2004 and 2005*.

JMBM prosecuted the inverse condemnation action against the City of San Diego

JMBM attorneys successfully prosecuted an inverse condemnation action against the City of San Diego for regulatory takings of property located in the San Dieguito River Valley.