Featured Services

Our Corporate and Securities practice is led by David Pedley, our Managing Member.

Pedley & Gordinier's Corporate and Securities Practice represents a wide array of clients, including institutional investors, family owned businesses and technology companies.  We represent clients locally, nationally and internationally.

Our group has experience representing venture capital funds, merchant banks, hedge funds and mezzanine funds. In addition to representing institutional investors, our attorneys represent technology companies, health care companies and a wide array of traditional businesses in connection with virtually all of their day to day legal needs.

David has broad experience in a wide range of corporate matters, but his practice has been particularly focused on financing transactions and the corporate representation of technology companies.  David has been involved in over $1.0 billion in transactions, including more than $500 million in venture capital financings.For example, during the 6 months ending June 30, 2011 alone he represented acquirers in five acquisitions with an aggregates purchase price of over $150 Million in aggregate, including one in the United Kingdom, with a purchase price in excess of $90 Million.

Our Litigation practice is led by John Gordinier.

Our group has over 100 years of experience representing corporations, partnerships, trusts and individuals, in both defendant and plaintiff capacity, in a wide variety of matters, including:

• • Administrative Law proceedings
• • Appellate Litigation
• • Asbestos and Mass Torts
• • Business, Contract and Commercial Law Litigation
• • General Civil Litigation
• • Criminal Defense
• • Insurance Defense
• • Personal Injury Claims

Pedley & Gordinier's litigators are thoroughly versed in these areas of law. Whenever settlement or alternative dispute resolution is the appropriate and recommended course, we will provide that counsel and advice. However; when trial and/or appellant court action is needed, our team is fully prepared to vigorously represent the client’s interests.  In all cases and matters, our Litigation team strives to provide clients with both zealous and cost effective legal representation throughout the litigation process.

 

Our Real Estate practice is led by David Pedley, our Managing Member.

Pedley & Gordinier represent clients in a wide range of Real Estaterelated matters. 

Some of the areas we help our clients in include:

• • Purchasing and selling commercial real estate
• • Negotiating and enforcing construction contracts
• • Preparing, negotiating and enforcing commercial leases
• • Advising on new real estate developments
• • Applying for zoning variance
• • Prosecuting and defending foreclosure and eviction actions

Our Trust and Estates practice is led by Stan Whetzel.

Our clients desire the peace of mind afforded by a carefully constructed, comprehensive estate plan. Such an estate plan enables our clients to clearly describe how they wish their estate to be administered and allows them to control the type of ongoing care they desire should they become incapacitated and unable to speak for themselves in the future.

A well-crafted estate plan allows clients to take care of their loved ones while also remembering friends and favorite charities. A well-crafted estate plan also focuses on preserving assets and minimizing the tax burden during not only a client’s lifetime but that of his or her heirs as well.

Without careful planning, a large portion of an individual’s assets may be taken by the Internal Revenue Service. We can help minimize the impact of estate taxes so client assets pass in accordance with his or her wishes instead of going to the IRS.

We provide practical solutions that control the tax consequences for during your lifetime and for your family so we can preserve the bulk of your assets and insure they pass to your intended heirs. Our estate planning practice includes:

• Wills 
• Durable powers of attorney 
• Advance medical directives 
• Living wills 
• Revocable and irrevocable trusts 
• Special needs trusts 
• Life insurance trusts 
• Educational trusts 
• Spousal trusts 
• Grantor trusts 
• Charitable remainder trusts 
• Generation-skipping trusts 
• Conservatorships 
• Guardianships 
• Family limited partnerships 
• Business succession planning 
• Insurance planning