Results
Outcomes and opportunities generated by the Blanchard, Krasner & French team
Blanchard, Krasner & French Results
Publications
Robert W. Blanchard
- Co-Author: “Preferential Portfolios – Tax efficiency in international real estate investment,” IR Global Virtual Round Table Series, Real Estate Working Group
- Author: “Introduction to Asset Securitization,” American Bar Association (course materials)
- Author: “Money Laundering and the Transactional Lawyer,” Probate & Property Magazine (professional article)
- Author: “FIRREA — Putting Bankers On Ice,” California Bankers Association (professional article)
- Contributing Author: “Commercial Real Estate Finance: A Current Guide to Representing Lenders and Borrowers,” American Bar Association (legal reference book)
- Co-Author: “Cleaning the Environment in the Money Laundry,” American Banker (professional article)
- Co-Author: “FSB Guidance on Client-Related Financial Reporting: Game-Changer For Voluntary Sustainability Reporting?,” ABA Section of International Law (professional article)
Edward P. Schlesier
- Author and Speaker: “Trust Taxation” section of the “Wills and Trusts 101,” National Business Institute
Mark A. Krasner
- Executive Spotlight “Top Lawyers: The Secrets to Their Success,” Worldwide Publishing
Jordan E. Ondatje
- Co-Author: “Real Estate Recovery: Bouncing back after the global pandemic,” IR Global Virtual Round Table Series, Real Estate Working Group 2021
- Co-Author: “Investment Incentives – Assessing International Real Estate Programmes,” IR Global Virtual Round Table Series, Real Estate Working Group 2019
- Co-Author: “Is It Time To Revisit The Feres Doctrine? The Disparate Treatment of Active Duty Military Personnel under the Federal Tort Claims Act,” 22 J. L. BUS. & ETHICS (Feb. 2016)
Rachel E. Forster
- Co-Author: “Quantitative Easing, State Intervention, and Overseas Investment,” IR Global The Visionaries – 2nd Edition, 2024
Representative Transactions
David C. Hawkes
- Recovery of tens of millions of dollars on behalf of employees and consumers
John Whittemore
- Obtained a judgment of $108,000,000 in compensatory and punitive damages in November 2020 following a bench trial on a client’s fraud cause of action against defendants in a real estate action. The trial court also determined that various instruments, including assignments of deeds of trust and grant deeds, were altered by defendants and void as a matter of law. (San Diego County Superior Court Case No. 37-2011-00071216-CU-OR-EC.)
- Briefed and presented oral argument at the Court of Appeal in opposition to a writ petition filed by defendants after the trial court denied their 170.6 peremptory challenge as untimely (relating to the same consolidated matters discussed in the preceding point). In February 2019, the Court of Appeal unanimously affirmed the trial court’s ruling in a published opinion. (Sunrise Financial, LLC v. Superior Court (2019) 32 Cal.App.5th 114 [holding that the defendant made a general appearance in the action, thus triggering a 15-day period for filing a peremptory challenge under Code of Civil Procedure Section 170.6].) The California Supreme Court denied the defendant’s petition for review.
Oleg Cross
- Counsel of record in Haggerty v. Thornton, 15 Cal.5th 729 (2024).
