Founded in 1993 by three Stanford Law School graduates, our firm provides each client with an experienced attorney committed to crafting the most effective legal strategy for achieving the client’s goals.
Gorman & Miller is an independent member of BOKS International, a top 15 global alliance of over 90 accountancy and law firms in 64 countries providing high quality, cross-border professional services and advice.
Our litigators have successfully tried or arbitrated over 250 civil disputes to verdict or award.
We have represented clients in the acquisition or sale of properties or businesses in 43 states.
We have successfully closed over $7 billion in transactions since 1999.
Winston Churchill once remarked that “a pessimist sees the difficulties in every opportunity and an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.” Since 1993, we’ve been helping clients turn obstacles into new business opportunities. When a small startup was willing to stand up to a multinational corporation in an intellectual property dispute, we helped the startup obtain a multi-million dollar recovery. When a real estate investor saw the profit potential in an over-leveraged property with a troubled tenant, we helped structure the redevelopment of the property with a new tenancy that yielded substantial cash flow to our investor client. From high stakes litigation to complex transactions, we provide winning legal strategies for our clients.
We represented the buyer of the 674,000 square foot corporate campus in Bridgewater, New Jersey leased to Sanofi’s U.S. subsidiary. The acquisition closed in January 2022. Sanofi is the world’s eighth largest pharmaceutical company with a global workforce of over 100,000.
During the summer of 2021, we represented the buyer-landlord in the sale-leaseback of a YMCA facility in Des Moines, Iowa. The successful closing of this transaction is helping the YMCA of Greater Des Moines continue its 150-year charitable history of providing recreation, housing, meals, education and scholarships to the community.
In February 2020, we represented the buyer-landlord in the sale-leaseback of 21 Walgreens stores in 12 states. In August 2022, we represented the buyer-landlord in the sale-leaseback of 59 Walgreens stores in 12 states. As an essential business, Walgreens never closed during the pandemic, and its long-term leaseback of these properties will enable it to continue to provide pharmacy and other health care services at these locations for many years to come.
We represented a church district in the enforcement of its denomination’s polity against a member church that decided to disaffiliate from the denomination. The member church sought to partition real estate that was owned by the denomination in accordance with its polity that all member churches’ property is held in trust for the benefit of the denomination. After a trial and an appeal, the denomination’s polity was successfully enforced, and partition of the church property was prevented.
We represented a company based in mainland China in its acquisition by a Taiwanese company. Our client manufactured high quality lenses for cell phone cameras. We had previously represented the client in five rounds of venture capital financing totaling over $50 million.
Situated two blocks from the Pacific Ocean with spectacular ocean views, our Santa Monica office provides a congenial, informal and collaborative environment for practicing law at the highest level.
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