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Mr. Matsumori graduated from Harvard Law School in 1976 and immediately accepted a position as a judicial clerk to the Honorable Aldon J. Anderson of the U.S. Federal District Court for the District of Utah. He practiced briefly with the firm of Van Cott, Bagley, Cornwall & McCarthy, specializing in a variety of commercial and business transactions, health care licensure, regulation and certificate of need law. He views himself as a general commercial, financing, real estate and business lawyer focusing on a wide variety of business transactions, contracts and issues. He started practice with Ray Quinney & Nebeker in 1979 immediately becoming involved in commercial, business, finance and credit transactions, mortgage and real estate finance documentation and foreclosure, collection and workout efforts. He has represented a wide variety of companies and institutions, both in their capacity as lenders and borrowers in both secured and unsecured credit and financing transactions and has had several years of experience as bond counsel in connection with industrial revenue and similar conduit tax-exempt financing. He has extensive experience in equipment leasing transactions. He has also served as an expert witness in lender liability litigation cases. His practice has broadened and evolved to include extensive experience in real estate and business enterprise sales and acquisitions, business acquisition and merger transactions, real estate development, planning, zoning and subdivision work, including representation before municipalities and planning and zoning boards and commissions. His credit and finance experience has also included loan and credit syndication and participation, asset securitization and credit enhancement. His client base has now evolved to include general business representation of a restaurant chain owner and franchisee/franchisor, a nursing home developer/operator, an emerging drug delivery technology company and computer/internet technology companies. Mr. Matsumori has continued to maintain representation of health care and health care industry clients and has been active in state licensure and regulation law, mergers, acquisitions and financing for health care industry clients. He has also gained extensive experience in the representation of a national truck dealership, including extensive work in business restructuring, adjunct insurance, financing and service businesses and in connection with both manufacturer relationships and dealer flooring arrangements.
Mr. Matsumori's problem-solving and negotiation expertise is broad-based and extensive and he is involved in alternate dispute resolution efforts, being one of the original members of the ADR panel for the Utah U.S. District Court's experimental and now ongoing successful ADR efforts. He also provides strategic and tactical assistance, consultation and back-up in various litigation matters that deal with his areas of expertise, experience and substantive law areas, also using his clerkship-sourced familiarity with the litigation process and the judicial decision-making process to provide valuable analytical, tactical and strategic input for the Firm's litigation teams. He is a member of the Firm's executive committee and is the chairperson of the Firm's financial institutions and financing/leasing/real estate practice section.
Mr. Matsumori has been selected by his peers for inclusion in the list of The Best Lawyers in America in Real Estate Law. He also maintains an AV rating from Martindale-Hubbell.
EDUCATION
Harvard University, J.D., 1976
University of Utah, B.S., Economics, 1973
magna cum laude
Phi Beta Kappa
Brigham Young University
PRACTICE AREAS
Automobile Dealer Law
Banking and Financial Institutions
Bankruptcy, Reorganizations and Insolvency Law and Litigation
Business Formation, Planning and Transactions
Corporate Finance and Securities Law
Health Care Law
Real Estate Transactions and Litigation
Winter Sports Practice Group
PRIOR PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Associate, Van Cott, Bagley, Cornwall & McCarthy, 1976-79
Law Clerk to Honorable Aldon J. Anderson, United States District Judge, 1976-77
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS AND MEMBERSHIPS
Member, Committee on Real Estate Finance of Real Property
Probate Section, American Bar Association, 1985 to 1989
Former Vice Chairman, Real Estate Section, Utah State Bar, 1985 to 1986
Board of Directors, Pacific Rim Business Council
Former Officer, Harvard Alumni Association
PROFESSIONAL AND CIVIC ACTIVITIES
Adjunct Professor of Law, University of Utah College of Business
BAR/BRI Lecturer, Utah Real Property
CLE Lecturer-Utah Real Property; Real Property Finance |
