Giving Infants and Toddlers an Early Head Start
When Albina Head Start, Inc. received a significant grant award to expand the agency's services, its management called on Tonkon Torp to help address many legal and business issues.
Helping Children Get Ahead
Just a year ago, the National Head Start Association was facing a crisis. Although the program is credited with helping over a million at-risk children achieve pre-school readiness, the federal government was attempting to make serious overhauls in the program's structure that program leaders feared would dismantle it.
Making Strides Towards Healthier Children
As younger and younger children are diagnosed with diabetes, heart disease, and other weight-related conditions typically seen in adults, the effort to restore physical education to schools has become more urgent.
Fighting for Lawful Permanent Residence
When the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services denied the work permits of an applicant for U.S. residence, Tonkon Torp attorneys stepped in to help.
Nike, Inc.: Giving a Marketing Legend its Wings
From selling imported shoes from the back of a car at track meets to becoming the world's leading designer, marketer and distributor of athletic footwear and accessories, Nike's 30 year legacy has been one of innovation, optimism and savvy business sense. Tonkon Torp has been involved since the 1980 IPO.
Helping IKEA Break Ground in Portland
When home furnishings giant IKEA needed to secure land and obtain necessary approvals for a new location in the Portland Metropolitan area, they turned to Tonkon Torp for help. Tonkon's real estate attorneys successfully navigated our client through the complex two-year process.
A Successful Resolution to a Messy 'Divorce'
When a 20-year employee of a closely held company filed a minority shareholder oppression lawsuit a year after leaving, our client called on Tonkon Torp for help. Tonkon Torp helped our longtime client deal with the fallout of a messy corporate 'divorce'.
Bringing Affordable Housing to Low-Income Families
When a non-profit group needed help obtaining special building permits to create low-income housing, it turned to Tonkon Torp for help. With the pro-bono assistance of our attorneys nine low-income families in Ashland, Oregon now have a home of their own.
World Headquarters for Banfield, the Pet Hospital®
As one of the world's largest veterinary hospital chains, Banfield Pet Hospital relies on the trusted counsel of Tonkon Torp. When Banfield was looking to build a new world headquarters, it once again turned to Tonkon Torp to handle all the legal matters.
Exploring Lewis and Clark College's Perfect Storm
When the President of Lewis & Clark College made an unauthorized $10.5 million loan to an oil company that eventually defaulted on the loan, Tonkon Torp was asked to investigate.
Serving Customers with VALOR
VALOR Telecom turned to Tonkon Torp to help comply with regulations while offering a competitively priced product to its consumers.
Helping a Non-Profit Fight a Class Action Claim
The threat of an employee class action lawsuit is cause for concern for most companies, but even more so when the defendant is a non-profit group, operating on a very tight budget. When our client, a non-profit that provides services to the visually impaired, faced a class action lawsuit brought by its employees, it turned to Tonkon Torp's labor and employment group.
The Portland Art Museum: Framing a Masterpiece
The Portland Art Museum's $34 million renovation of the North Building, a 141,000 square foot landmark built as a Masonic temple in 1925, has added new modern and contemporary art galleries, two large ballrooms, as well as meeting rooms and administrative offices for the Museum. Tonkon Torp assisted the Museum with permitting, approvals, architect and construction contracts.
Helping a Public Company Complete an Audit
When our client, the audit committee of a regional financial institution, learned that the company's auditors would not provide an opinion required for the filing of its Form 10-K without an independent investigation of an accounting dispute, it turned to Tonkon Torp for assistance.
TASER International: An Electrifying IPO
The TASER name has become synonymous with non-lethal self-defense devices. Since its inception little more than ten years ago, TASER's products have revolutionized law enforcement and may revolutionize personal safety. When it launched its successful initial public offering in 2001, TASER called on Tonkon Torp to assist.
Greenbrier MA: Mexican Wheeling and Dealing
When Oregon-based The Greenbrier Companies, Inc. decided to buy out its joint venture partner's interest in the Greenbrier-Concarril venture in Mexico, it turned to longtime counsel Tonkon Torp to assist in structuring the transaction.
Nike's Non-Compete Victory
As the world's leading athletic footwear and apparel brand, Nike knows the value of a skilled management force. Tonkon Torp helped Nike enforce a non-compete agreement when an employee tried to take a position with a competitor.
Amberhill Wins Real Estate Financing Dispute
When friends encouraged our client to invest in an environmentally progressive mixed-use residential and retail development in the city of Fairview, east of Portland, no one anticipated any problems. But when the deal went sour, Amberhill turned to Tonkon Torp for help.
M Financial: A Unique Financial Services Company
M Financial Group is one of the nation's premier financial services distribution companies serving ultra-affluent individuals and Fortune 1000 companies. M Financial looks to Tonkon Torp for major restructuring transactions as well as day-to-day advice on a host of issues.
Costco Expands With Wilsonville Location
When Costco Wholesale Corporation was looking to expand its Portland Metro area operations, it turned to Tonkon Torp for help in securing enough appropriately zoned land to site a 145,000 square foot membership warehouse. The solution: Costco's first integrated shopping center location in the Portland area.
AAA Protects Oregon Consumers From Added Taxes
Oregon is one of the few states that uses a weight-mile tax rather than a diesel fuel tax on heavy trucking to help support and maintain its 86,000 miles of paved road. When trucking interests tried to shift the tax burden to everyday drivers, AAA Oregon/Idaho turned to Tonkon Torp to help in the fight.
Immigration's Death Penalty: The Freeman Story
South African-born Carla Freeman was already devastated by the death of her husband when the U.S Department of Homeland Security decided to deport her. Shackled and kept in a holding cell for a day until Tonkon Torp secured her supervised release, Carla Freeman had fallen into a crack in immigration rules that deny legal status to an immigrant married less than two years.
Keeping America Safe From Novelist Ian McEwan?
Famed British novelist Ian McEwan (author of best-seller "Atonement", and winner of the prestigious Booker Prize) didn't get quite the welcome he expected when he flew into the Pacific Northwest for speaking engagements on behalf of Seattle Arts & Lectures.
Defending a Former Director in Enron Fallout
Enron's $63 billion bankruptcy in 2001 sent shockwaves through the financial community, triggering the collapse of one of the world's largest accounting firms and setting in motion corporate governance changes that would alter the face of corporate America.
Stimson Lumber's Own Private Idaho
Stimson Lumber Company shifted its strategic focus to the inland Northwest with its initial expansion into Montana in 1993, drawing on longtime counsel Tonkon Torp's expertise to handle the deal. Since then, Stimson has been adding to its inland operations in Eastern Washington, Idaho and Montana.
Stimson's Strategic Forestry: Redwood Conservation
Through much of family-owned Stimson Lumber's 150-year history, it actively expanded its holdings throughout the Northwest, acquiring prime forestlands in Washington, Oregon and California. When Stimson's strategic focus shifted to Oregon and inland states, it decided to sell its 25,000 acres in the Smith River watershed in Northern California.
Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Portland Bankruptcy
The Archdiocese of Portland made national headlines when it became the first Archdiocese to seek bankruptcy protection, triggered by several hundred claims for damages stemming from allegations of abuse at the hands of clergy. Tonkon Torp is playing a central role.
