Ryan T. Waggoner

Recent Trial Experience

• Dansk Investment Group. Obtained complete defense decision in five-week jury trial concerning an alleged joint venture agreement to buy and redevelop a hotel located in Huntsville Alabama (first chair). Result featured in the Daily Journal and Santa Barbara News-Press. 
• Mortgage Servicer. Obtained defense decision in two-week jury trial concerning allegations that mortgage servicer violated California’s Consumer Credit Reporting Agencies Act (first chair).

• Industrial Tenant. Obtained defense decision in arbitration concerning contractual dispute over when rent escalated in a lease, including recovery of 100% of attorneys' fees and costs sought (first chair).

• Development Company. Obtained defense decision in a bench trial relating to ownership and disposition of partnership assets following dissolution of a partnership (first chair).
• Development Company. Obtained defense decision in an accounting-arbitration venued in Houston, Texas in which claimant alleged accounting-fraud in connection with a partnership buyout transaction (first chair).
• ING Realty Partners. Obtained defense decision on behalf of a real property seller regarding the disposition of an earnest money deposit in a binding arbitration proceeding (first chair).
• Independent Agency. Obtained defense decision in bifurcated bench and jury trial concerning allegations of lender liability (second chair).
• EdenRock Capital, LLC. Successfully defended EdenRock in a partnership dispute related to a commercial property located in Santa Monica in a binding arbitration proceeding (second chair).

Pre-Trial Experience

• Desert Jet.  Represented fixed base operator (FBO) in a lease dispute against the County of Riverside, forcing the County to voluntarily dismiss its claims against Desert Jet through a successful motion that resulted in a favorable tentative ruling for Desert Jet.  Result featured in KESQ News.
• Amstar. Represented Landlord in a breach of lease action in which Landlord recovered 100% of the aggregate sum of lost rent and attorneys’ fees expended through a compelled sale of investment property personally owned by Tenant’s CEO.
• First Federal Bank of California. Represented First Federal in lawsuit to enforce guaranty securing a $25 million loan, which included successfully obtaining a court-appointed receiver to seize control of and operate a condominium development.
• Canadian Development Company. Represented a Canadian development company in connection with a former buyer’s recordation of a lis pendens days before the client’s scheduled closing date to acquire an office building in downtown Los Angeles, forcing a withdrawal of the lis pendens only 41 days after it was recorded and paving the way for the transaction to close.
• Medical Arts Building, L.P. Represented the owner of a West Covina office building in a pre-litigation dispute arising from its sale of the building to a third party and the allocation of leasing and tenant-improvement costs in connection with such sale.
• Latitude Management Real Estate Investors, Inc. Obtained defense decision in favor of Latitude in a matter arising from lease disputes concerning real estate tax escalations and other additional rent charges.
• Principal Real Estate Investors, LLC. Represented Principal in a partnership dispute related to a 50-story condominium project in San Francisco.
• Kilroy Realty Corp. Represented Kilroy in several matters relating to lease disputes and CC&Rs.
• Maguire Properties, Inc. Represented Maguire in a matter relating to CC&Rs and related restrictive covenants.
• State Teachers Retirement System of Ohio. Represented Ohio State Teachers in several matters arising from lease disputes.
• Equus Capital Partners, Ltd. Represented Equus’s predecessor in an action against a general contractor for fraud and other construction defects.
• City of Richmond. Assisted City of Richmond with real estate-related matters concerning its Economic Development Administration Revolving Loan Fund.
• Mortgage Lenders. Represented two of the nation's largest mortgage lenders in multiple creditors’ rights matters, including commencement of foreclosure proceedings.
• Developer. Represented developer in action to enjoin intended use of property as medical facility.