Banking & Financial Services
DBS Law has extensive experience providing legal services to the banking and financial services industry. DBS Law attorneys work with many types of clients in the banking and financial services industry, including banks, private lenders, commercial finance companies, insurance companies, mortgage brokers, investment bankers, and private equity firms. DBS Law can assist businesses in the Banking and Finance sector with a wide-array of legal needs, from transactional work to litigation in state and federal courts.
Key Areas of Focus:
- Secured lending, including loan documentation
- Foreclosures
- Workout agreements
- Receiverships and other insolvency proceedings
- Dispute resolution
Related Practice Areas:
- Creditors’ Rights
- Bankruptcy and Insolvency
- Real Estate
- Litigation and Alternative Dispute Resolution
- Business and Corporate
Gas Stations & Convenience Stores
DBS Law actively represents developers, brokers, owners, and operators of convenience stores, gas stations, and travel centers throughout Washington and Oregon. Our lawyers bring together the benefit of many years of experience in the areas of real estate, finance, franchise, environmental, corporate, employment, and litigation to assist our clients within this industry sector. The lawyers within our convenience store and gas station industry group provide our clients with the skills and knowledge required in all aspects of the purchase, financing, sale, development, and operation of their convenience stores, gas stations, and travel centers. In addition, DBS Law has represented lenders, borrowers, and court appointed bankruptcy trustees and receivers in the workout and liquidation of defaulted loans secured by operating and shuttered convenience stores, gas stations, and travel centers.
Key Areas of Focus:
- Real estate purchase and sales
- Franchise agreements and disputes
- Environmental compliance
- Workout agreements
- Liquidation
Related Practice Areas:
- Real Estate
- Business and Corporate
- Finance and Lending
- Bankruptcy and Insolvency
- Employment
Media
DBS Law represents media clients in matters ranging from defending claims and lawsuits for defamation, invasion of privacy, and copyright infringement, to pursuing claims for public and media access to courtrooms, public records, and government meetings. Our core services also include representing media clients and their journalists in resisting efforts to obtain testimony and evidence from them—such as through subpoenas—in violation of their shield law rights. DBS Law attorneys also review articles pre-publication and counsel clients on potential legal issues and liabilities.
Key Areas of Focus:
- Defamation defense
- Copyright and trademark enforcement
- Subpoena defense
- Pre-publication legal review
Related Practice Areas:
- Intellectual Property
- Litigation and Alternative Dispute Resolution
- Business and Corporate
- Employment
Real Estate
DBS Law attorneys are experienced in representing buyers, sellers, landlords, tenants, and lenders in real estate transactions both large and small. Our attorneys can draft and review purchase and sale agreements, leases, easements, deeds of trust, promissory notes, and related financing agreements. DBS Law attorneys also have significant experience litigating disputes involving real estate, including evictions, contested foreclosures and lawsuits seeking the enforcement of real estate sale agreements.
Key Areas of Focus:
- Drafting transaction documents related to real estate sales or leases
- Negotiating and documenting easements and licenses
- Unlawful detainers/evictions
- Real estate finance documentation
- Real estate litigation
- Corporate maintenance
Related Practice Areas:
- Corporate
- Finance & Lending
- Bankruptcy & Insolvency
- Creditors’ Rights
- Litigation
Small Business / Start-Ups / Entrepreneurs
DBS Law offers premium legal services to business owners around the United States. DBS Law attorneys work with hundreds of businesses in all stages of their development, from business formation, to hiring employees, to the sale of the business. We strive to provide legal services that protect growing businesses from unanticipated and unnecessary liability, while offering transparent pricing, flat fee options, and flexible packages so clients can budget for their legal expenses.
Key Areas of Focus:
- Entity Formation (LLC, Corporation, Partnerships)
- Service Agreements/Terms of Use
- Independent Contractor Agreements
- Payment Disputes
- Funding and Financing Agreements
- Succession Planning
- Purchase and Sale of a Business
- Employee Handbooks and Policies
- Non-Competition, Severance, and Consulting Agreements
- Non-Profit Business Services, including 501(c)(3) filing
- Website Legal Review and Consultation
- Intellectual Property Strategy
Related Practice Areas:
- Litigation and Alternative Dispute Resolution
- Finance and Lending
- Creditors’ Rights
- Employment
- Business Immigration
- Bankruptcy and Insolvency
- Business and Corporate
- Real Estate
- Intellectual Property