Focus

• Corporate & Business
• Finance
• Mergers & Acquisitions
• Real Estate
• Entertainment

Recent Successes

• Sean has assisted a major Southern California supermarket chain with the sale of $285,000,000 in debt to institutional investors. Previously, Sean assisted the company with the refinancing and placement of $525,000,000 in notes to institutional investors.
• Sean successfully helped a beverage company sell all of its assets to one of the premier beverage distributors in the United States. The transaction involved complex negotiations relating to distributor agreements, inventory, intangible assets, and real estate.
• Sean assisted the shareholder of a major distribution company, and related companies, sell all of its shares of stock to a private equity group.
• Sean continues to assist a major Southern California supermarket chain with the acquisition, entitlement, financing and construction of a new corporate headquarters and related buildings in the former Norton Air Force Base, San Bernardino, California. This intricate transaction has involved the acquisition of land from private parties, the disposition of land from governmental entities, in depth and extensive discussions with a redevelopment agency, transacting with the United States government, negotiation of complex agreements with a master developer, negotiation of financing, negotiation with contractors and negotiation with unions.

Honors & Awards

• AV Preeminent®, Peer Review Rated, Martindale-Hubbell®

Community Involvement & Pro Bono

• The Community Foundation Serving Riverside and San Bernardino Counties, Board of Directors
• Young Presidents’ Organization, Inland Empire Chapter, Chapter Board and Member
• Inland Empire Center for Entrepreneurship, Advisory Board
• Boys and Girls Club of San Bernardino, Board of Directors
• Advisory Board, Cal State University San Bernardino Inland Empire Center for Entrepreneurship
• California State University, San Bernardino Graduate School of Management, Guest Lecturer
• Diamond Venture Forum, Professional Review Team
• HomeAid Inland Empire, Board of Directors
• Leadership Riverside
• Lincoln Club of Riverside County, Member Board of Directors
• Riverside Chamber of Commerce, Downtown Division, Board of Directors
• San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department, S.S.B. Deputy
• Spirit of the Entrepreneur Awards, Judge
• Inland Empire Economic Partnership, Past Member Board of Directors
• I2RTA Technology Alliance, Past Member Board of Directors

Publications

• CEQA After Two Decades: Relevant Problems and Ideas For Necessary Reform, 19 Pepperdine L. Rev. (1992) (reprinted in the National Law Anthology, Environmental Law Anthology October 1993)

Education

• Pepperdine University School of Law, JD cum laude, 1993
• University of California, Los Angeles, BA, 1989
• Cambridge University, England, Pembroke College

Admissions

• American Bar Association
• The State Bar of California
• Riverside County Bar Association
• United States District Court (Central, Eastern, Southern, Northern Districts of California)
• 9^th Circuit Court of Appeal