Sandman Savrann - Hospitality Industry Counselors.
Short Profiles of Firm Professionals
Sandman Savrann delivers its exceptional service and value through its highly regarded industry counselors, who are distinguished by their extensive knowledge, experience, and contacts in the hospitality industry. They lead our comprehensive legal team, handling all the special needs and structures of the industry, as well as bringing to bear in-depth practice and technical knowledge in real estate, restructuring, finance, litigation, employment, securities, and tax.
INDUSTRY COUNSELORS:
Irvin W. Sandman
Phone: (206)-686-0802
E-mail: isandman@sandsav.com
J.D., UCLA, 1980
Home base: Seattle, WA
Irv has served the hospitality industry for over twenty years. He has counseled hotel clients, as lead counsel, in hundreds of hotel ventures and transactions worldwide, including restructurings and workouts, strategic planning and partnerships, mergers and acquisitions, management agreements, franchising and operational matters, and strategic litigation and claims resolution. Irv is the 2008 recipient of the national Anthony G. Marshall Award, given annually by the Board of the Hospitality Law Conference in Houston for pioneering and lasting contributions to the field of hospitality law. He is currently president of the Hospitality Industry Bar Association. »Full Profile
Russell C. Savrann
Phone: (203)-653-2820
E-mail: rsavrann@sandsav.com
J.D., Suffolk University School of Law, 1987
Home base: New Haven, CT
Russ works with hotel and restaurant clients on strategic planning, transactions, franchising and operational matters, including mergers & acquisitions, joint ventures, management agreements, franchise, beverage licensing, intellectual property, sales, marketing, construction and procurement. Russ’s prior experience in the hospitality industry includes positions at Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide, Inc.(Vice President, Associate General Counsel and Acting General Counsel), and at The Ground Round, Inc.(Director of Legal Affairs and Corporate Secretary). »Full Profile
TEAM MEMBERS:
Andrew J. Anderson - Golf Industry Advisor
(480)-626-1640
aanderson@sandsav.com
Golf Industry Liaison
specializes in golf course management, development and workouts. Currently VP
Development Billy Casper Golf.
J.D., University of Tulsa, 1990
Home base: Scottsdale, AZ
Mark S. Bressler
Commercial and Residential Real Estate Transactions, Real Estate Development & Financing, Leasing, Land Use Regulation, Title Insurance
Associated
Firm: Independent, Boston
Bar Admissions: 1985 (MA)
Charles R. Bush
Public and private employer advice and representation concerning Workers' Compensation, Industrial Insurance, Workplace Safety, Unemployment Compensation, and Personal Injury
Associated Firm: Vandeberg, Johnson & Gandara, Tacoma
Bar Admissions: 1986 (WA)
Lucy R. Clifthorne
Business and Corporate Law, Civil Litigation
Associated Firm: Vandeberg, Johnson & Gandara, Tacoma
Bar
Admissions: 1997 (WA)
George T. Cowan
Commercial Finance; Real Estate; Corporate Law
Associated Firm: Vandeberg, Johnson & Gandara,
Seattle
Bar Admissions: 1978
(WA), 1999 (CA)
H. Frank Crawford
Advertising; Labeling; Trade Regulation; Product Distribution
Associated Firm: Vandeberg, Johnson & Gandara, Tacoma
Bar
Admissions: 1968 (OH), 1973 (WA)
Sherry Davies
Self-insured and state fund employer advice and representation concerning Worker’s Compensation and Industrial Insurance
Associated Firm: Vandeberg, Johnson & Gandara, Tacoma
Bar Admissions: 2000 (WA)
Marlo Delange
Corporate Law & Finance, Mergers & Acquisitions, Franchise Law, Securities Law, International Business Law, Business Organizations, Taxation, and Business Transactions
Associated Firm: Vandeberg, Johnson & Gandara, Tacoma
Bar
Admissions: 1997 (WA)
Mark Dietzler
Complex Civil Litigation; Insurance Defense Litigation;
Associated Firm: Vandeberg, Johnson & Gandara, Tacoma
Bar
Admissions: 1991 (WA)
James C. Fowler
Commercial, Intellectual Property, and Employment Litigation
Associated Firm: Vandeberg, Johnson & Gandara, Seattle
Bar
Admissions: 1985 (WA)
Jonathon D. Friedmann
Creditors Rights, Civil and Commercial Litigation
Associated
Firm: Rudolph Friedmann, Boston
Bar
Admissions: 1982 (MA)
Daniel Gandara
Commercial and Tort Litigation, Commercial and Real Estate Transactions
Associated Firm: Vandeberg, Johnson & Gandara, Seattle
Bar
Admissions: 1974 (CA), 1978 (WA)
Kinne F. Hawes
Real Estate Development and Financing; Business; International Business Law
Associated Firm: Vandeberg, Johnson & Gandara, Seattle
Bar
Admissions: 1972 (WA)
John A. Holmes
Real Estate and Commercial Litigation
Associated Firm: Vandeberg, Johnson & Gandara, Seattle
Bar
Admissions: 1992 (WA)
Mark A. Hood
Title Insurance and Escrow; Real Estate Transactions; Land Use Permitting
Associated Firm: Vandeberg, Johnson & Gandara, Tacoma
Bar
Admissions: 1990 (WA)
James A. Krueger
Federal Taxation; Business, Corporation, Partnership and Real Property Law
Associated Firm: Vandeberg, Johnson & Gandara, Tacoma
Bar
Admissions: 1969 (WA)
Anthony L. Leccesse
Commercial and Residential Real Estate Transactions, Development & Financing, Leasing, Land Use Regulation, Title Insurance and Sports and Entertainment Law
Associated
Firm: Rudolph Friedmann, Boston
Bar
Admissions: 1982 (VT) 1986 (MA)
Neal H. Luna
Trademarks and Copyrights
Associated Firm: Vandeberg, Johnson & Gandara, Tacoma
Bar
Admissions: 2003 (WA)
Daren H. Nitz
Corporate Financing; Corporate Transactions
Associated Firm: Vandeberg, Johnson & Gandara, Seattle
Bar
Admissions: 1990 (WA)
Constance L. Proctor
Real Estate Development and Financing, Construction and Financing, Commercial Leasing
Associated Firm: Vandeberg, Johnson & Gandara, Tacoma
Bar
Admissions: 1978 (WA)
James L. Rudolph
Real Estate Development and Financing, Mergers and Acquisitions, Commercial Litigation Construction Litigation
Associated
Firm: Rudolph Friedmann, Boston
Bar
Admissions: 1975 (MA)
Robert H. Shaer
Commercial and Residential Real Estate Transactions, Development & Financing, Leasing, Land Use Regulation, Title Insurance and Business Transactions
Associated
Firm: Rudolph Friedmann, Boston
Bar
Admissions: 1979 (MA)
James S. Singer
Landlord Tenant, Commercial Litigation and Construction Law
Associated
Firm: Rudolph Friedmann, Boston
Bar Admissions: 1978 (MA)
Joseph W. Worthen II
Commercial and Residential Real Estate Transactions, Development & Financing, Leasing, Land Use Regulation, Title Insurance and Business Transactions
Associated
Firm: Rudolph Friedmann, Boston
Bar
Admissions: 1976 (NH) 2006 (MA)
OTHER RESOURCES:
As may be needed from time-to-time to handle specialty areas not frequently confronting the hotel industry, or to add depth to staffing, S&S draws on additional technical expertise and depth of the attorneys and paralegals of its associated firms.