Arthur B. Cook • Partner

One California Plaza
300 South Grand Avenue, 37th Floor
Los Angeles, CA 90071

(213) 620-0460 [General]
(213) 624-4840 [Fax]  

Representative Matters

Business Liability Environmental Consultants

Counseling a Fortune 200 company, assisting the client in overseeing the investigation and remediation by other responsible parties of contaminated land owned by the client.  Specific tasks include identification of historically responsible parties and their current successors in liability, research and discovery of evidence of responsibility, and interfacing with environmental consultants and regulators.


Commercial Real Property Acquisitions

Long term represention of a family with a substantial interest in a portfolio of commercial real property with a gross value of half a billion dollars, advising them with respect to acquisitions and divestitures as well as a current reorganization of the portfolio management structure.


Office Property Developer

Long term representation of a build-and-hold developer of office properties, advising the client regarding the voluntary cleanup of contaminated brownfields, obtaining no further action letters so that development may proceed and successfully prosecuting cost recovery actions against responsible parties.  Recently, assisting this client in successfully obtaining public financing for a new project when conventional, private financing was unavailable due to the credit crisis.


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EDUCATION

  • University of Southern California Law Center - J.D. (1975)
  • University of Southern California - M.B.A. (1975)
  • Stanford University - B.A. (1971)