We serve as outside general counsel to the world's leading manufacturer of data/video projectors. Since representing InFocus in its initial public offering in 1990, we have assisted the company with securities compliance, corporate issues, acquisitions, and employment matters. We represented InFocus in the formation of Motif, Inc., a 50/50 joint venture with Motorola, Inc., and most recently in the acquisition of Proxima ASA, a Norwegian public company.

We serve as general U.S. counsel to China Ocean Shipping Company and its U.S. subsidiaries. We assist these clients with all their professional and administrative requirements.  In recent years we represented COSCO in major securitization financings involving global assets.  

Named the No. 1 "hot growth" company in Business Week's May 29, 2000 issue, The Nautilus Group is a direct marketing company that sells Bowflex, Nautilus, Schwinn Fitness and Stairmaster exercise equipment. We have served as outside general counsel since 1992. In the space of four months during 1999, we represented Direct Focus in its initial public offering and its acquisition of the assets of Nautilus International, Inc.  During 2001, we represented The Nautilus Group (formerly Direct Focus) in its acquisition of the assets of Schwinn Fitness.  Most recently, we represented The Nautilus Group in its acquisition of the assets of Stairmaster.

A healthcare system with hospitals and other facilities in several different cities in Washington, Oregon and Alaska, PeaceHealth has been a client of the firm for many years. Serving as general outside counsel, we assist PeaceHealth on matters as diverse as acquisition of hospitals, issuance of tax-exempt bonds, labor negotiations, joint ventures, and construction litigation. We typically staff larger transactions and cases with lawyers from both our Seattle and Portland offices. Not only does this approach take advantage of the full range of the firm's healthcare experience, it also is convenient for PeaceHealth, which has its home office near Seattle but the majority of its facilities near Portland.

This client is a Netherlands joint venture of American investors and RSC Energia, the privatized Russian company that operates the Mir space station. Our lawyers crafted the agreement that allows MirCorp to use the orbiting space station for commercial purposes.

We have defended class action lawsuits asserting wage-and-hour claims against Fortune 500 companies in the fast food and retail industries. In one case we negotiated a successful resolution without filing an answer to the complaint. In another we contested class members' claims in numerous individual hearings on a store-by-store basis. We have also represented a third Fortune 500 employer in several cases involving such claims as: breach of a covenant not to compete, breach of a confidentiality agreement, failure to pay employee stock options, defamation and trade libel.

We have represented several Fortune 500 companies in successful appeals of multi-million dollar property tax assessments against significant manufacturing facilities located in the Pacific Northwest.