Environmental Law and litigation

Marco Quazzo

Marco Quazzo is a partner with Barg Coffin Lewis & Trapp, LLP. He is a litigator and trial lawyer with extensive experience in business and real estate litigation, including disputes arising from the purchase and sale of businesses or real property, partnership and shareholder disputes, disputes arising from real property leasing or construction, disputes between manufacturers and dealers, distributors, or suppliers, and disputes involving business torts, fraud, breach of contract and breach of fiduciary duty.  Marco has tried numerous cases to verdict in U.S. District Court, U.S. Tax Court, and California Superior Court, and has significant experience representing clients in arbitration proceedings and mediation.

Honors

• Consistently honored as a "Super Lawyer" by San Francisco magazine in an annual survey of Northern California lawyers since the survey's inception in 2004
• AV-rated by Martindale-Hubbell, indicating very high legal ability and very high ethical standards
• Listed in Who's Who in American Law
• Received the Golden Eagle award from The Guardsmen for work on behalf of underprivileged children in the Bay Area
• Received the Community Service Award from the Jack Berman Advocacy Center for his legal work on behalf of victims of gun violence

Education

• Boalt Hall School of Law, University of California at Berkeley, J.D., 1989
  
  Order of the Coif; Associate Editor, California Law Review
• Harvard University, B.A., magna cum laude, 1984

Representative Matters

• Secured summary judgment in U.S. District Court on behalf of an investment bank against a company who refused to pay a $2 million "success" fee after the company was acquired in a private equity transaction
• Defended selling shareholders of a high technology company against indemnity claims totaling $25 million asserted by the buyer in connection with losses arising from patent infringement litigation that was pending at the time of sale
• Defended a general partner of a family investment partnership against claims of breach of fiduciary duty and fraud asserted by 15 limited partners after general partner adopted diversified investment strategy
• Represented a real estate investment trust in pursuing breach of contract and fraud claims against a property management company entrusted with managing and selling a shopping center portfolio consisting of 60 properties
• Pursued wrongful death and survival claim based on premises liability (against the building owner and security company) and negligence (against the gun manufacturer and retailer) on behalf of a shooting victim at 101 California Street in San Francisco
• Pursued claims for breach of contract, non-disclosure, fraud and construction defects on behalf of owner of property that incurred more than $1 million in water damage against the seller, developer and contractor for the property
• Prosecuted inverse condemnation and negligence claim for property damage after a city-owned water main burst, causing a flood on an automobile dealer's lot that damaged dozens of new vehicles
• Prevailed on all claims at trial in the U.S. District Court on behalf of a shipping company against a medical clinic in a dispute arising from the clinic's negligent treatment of the company's employee. SeaRiver Maritime, Inc. v. Industrial Medical Services, Inc., 983 F.Supp. 1287 (N.D. Cal. 1997)
• Represented a major automobile company in a $3 million dispute with two suppliers involving the shipment of hundreds of thousands of vehicles between California and Hawaii
• In a JAMS arbitration proceeding, secured a favorable settlement on behalf of the estate of a deceased shareholder of a closely held company that refused to repurchase his shares upon his death

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