Our San Diego/Del Mar office offers a wide range of services, enabling us to provide the right mix for the innovative, emerging enterprises located in the region. Areas of particular strength include:
Litigation: As part of one of the largest and most comprehensive litigation practices in the country, our San Diego/Del Mar attorneys understand the business side of the challenges and risks posed by potential and actual lawsuits, and have the experience to confront your legal issues. The San Diego/Del Mar litigation practice concentrates on several areas, including labor and employment, consumer class actions, privacy litigation, unfair competition, bankruptcy, securities, and commercial law. Our litigation philosophy is to provide you with comprehensive legal advice that covers all available options before deciding the best course of action. We focus on the complete solution.
Private Equity and Venture Capital: Emerging growth companies offer dramatic return opportunities for a wide range of investors, from individual angel investors to venture capital firms and large institutional investors. Our Business Law attorneys understand the complex nature of investment structures and venture capital investment deals. We have represented investors of all types and sizes as well as emerging companies. We are favored by investors because of the substantial number of attractive emerging companies with which we interact, our experience in representing many of these growth companies, our experience and knowledge in comprehensive due diligence investigations of such companies, and our track record in structuring and negotiating investment transactions.
Life Sciences: Triumph in basic research does not guarantee commercial success. Victory in the marketplace requires a sophisticated combination of scientific discovery, IP protection, regulatory approval, management acumen, and access to informed capital. Our San Diego/Del Mar office offers comprehensive legal services for innovative enterprises as you take your products and services from concept to commercial reality in the fields of pharmaceuticals, biotechnology, biomedicine, and health care. With our integration of skills in business law, regulatory affairs, IP, and health care, we can guide you through the maze of challenges that life sciences companies confront in competitive global markets.
Privacy, Security & Information Management: Our San Diego/Del Mar Privacy, Security & Information Management Practice (Privacy Practice) attorneys assist companies with managing information and mitigating risk. Led by the chair of our Privacy Practice, who is located in our San Diego/Del Mar office, the team has significant experience with counseling clients in the health care, financial services, targeted advertising, online, and telecommunications industries. Our lawyers also have handled a number of high-profile security breaches, cutting-edge privacy litigation, and a number of significant matters before the FTC, the Office of Civil Rights, and state attorneys general.
Intellectual Property: The IP attorneys in our San Diego/Del Mar office offer integrated IP capabilities to deliver an innovative life cycle of IP services to protect and add value to your IP assets. We provide the critically important transactional services of securing patents and trademarks, providing product clearance and patent opinions, licensing, and IP due diligence for corporate transactions.
Public Policy: Our San Diego/Del Mar office features a group of Public Policy attorneys experienced in defending against the claims of private parties and governmental bodies as well as representing clients in the areas of First Amendment and other constitutional law, school law, fair housing, employment and other antidiscrimination laws, and libel and slander. Our Public Policy attorneys have deep knowledge of environmental regulation and have served a variety of public agencies. Clients we have represented include charter schools, school districts, county-operated health systems, water districts, sanitation districts, and other public bodies.
Hospitality, Resort, and Golf: Several attorneys in our San Diego/Del Mar office are part of the firm’s national Hospitality, Resort & Golf Industry Team — a group that offers specific experience in the acquisition, development, financing, and construction of golf course, hotel, and resort projects. With backgrounds that encompass real estate, business, environmental, construction, IP, public finance, and litigation, our attorneys combine skill and hands-on experience to guide developers and lenders in projects involving golf amenities, timeshare, and other recreational components.
Real Estate: Our San Diego/Del Mar office also includes Real Estate attorneys who provide counsel related to the acquisition, development, financing, and sale of properties across the United States and around the world. We have assisted airports, corporations, developers, health care providers, hotels, utilities, and many other organizations in achieving their growth plans. Services include syndication of equity and debt positions as well as counseling in defaults and workouts.