William "Bill" W. Huckins

Lenders and Financial Institutions

• Large National Lender (Orange County, California and Las Vegas, Nevada). Loan enforcement matters totaling approximately $50 million, obtaining stay relief in contested evidentiary proceedings, which allowed the lender to foreclose on commercial properties in Orange County and Las Vegas, while defeating lender liability claims by the borrower. 
• Large Midwest Bank (San Diego, California and Las Vegas, Nevada). Enforcement of a $130 million construction loan secured by a master-planned development in Temecula, California, successfully obtaining stay relief in Bankruptcy Court in Nevada, allowing the lender to foreclose on its collateral. 
• Large Southern California Lender (San Francisco, California). Prevailed in lengthy stay relief and plan confirmation trial, allowing a large Southern California lender to proceed with enforcement actions against a waterfront Brownfield site on San Francisco bay, which secured a $30+ million loan. 
• Large Southern California Lender (Sacramento, California). Prevailed in a contested stay relief proceeding for a large Southern California lender involving a $31 + million loan secured by luxury hotel, spa, and marina on the Sacramento riverfront, permitting foreclosure of the property and subsequent sale of the hotel, while defeating two lender liability lawsuits brought by the debtor and co-obligor. 
• Large Southern California Lender (Orange County, California). Prevailed in a hotly-contested stay relief and plan confirmation proceeding for a large Southern California lender involving a $29 million loan secured by an 88-acre mixed-use development in Indio in which the borrower/debtor and guarantors attempted to cramdown the lender for 10 years at below market interest rates while simultaneously seeking to enjoin enforcement of third-party guarantees. 
• Large National Lender (Oakland, California). Represented large national lender in hotly-contested receivership action and subsequent bankruptcy case, obtaining stay relief, which allowed the lender to foreclose and obtain full recovery on the loan at the trustee's sale, and dismissal of lender liability claims against the lender. 
• Large Southern California Lender (Sacramento, California). Obtained stay relief for a large Southern California lender in contested bankruptcy cases involving approximately $20 million in defaulted loans secured by Sacramento area apartment complexes, leading to a capital infusion and consensual debt restructuring on one property and a subsequent sale of another property through a receivership. 
• Subordinated Debt Fund (San Francisco, California). Represented debt fund in multiple related bankruptcy cases, obtaining stay relief which allowed fund to foreclose on its real and personal property collateral, defeating lender liability claims, defeating challenges to the fund's blanket lien rights at the trial court and on appeal, and defeating an avoidance action alleging improvement in the lender's floating lien in the 90-day period prior to bankruptcy. 
• Special Servicers (California). Represented special servicers in numerous bankruptcy and loan enforcement matters secured by a wide-variety of asset types from commercial shopping centers to heavy earth-moving equipment.

Property Owners 

• Resort Developer (Honolulu, Hawaii). Represented Maui Land & Pineapple in Kapalua Bay Hotel bankruptcy in Hawaii, successfully asserting rights under ground lease and right of first refusal, which led to the transfer of the hotel to a new owner and operator. 
• Hotel Owner (San Francisco, California). Represented the owner of three Bay Area Embassy Suites hotels in bankruptcy of restaurant and food and beverage operator at the properties, resulting in purchase by hotel owner of the restaurants and food and beverage operations and transfer to a new operator. 
• Hotel Owner (Boston, Massachusetts). Represented owner of San Diego Holiday Inn in bankruptcy of restaurant and food and beverage operator at the property, leading to transfer of the operations to a new operator.

Other Bankruptcy Representations

• Joint Venture Secured Creditor (Portland, Oregon). Represented joint venture purchaser of debt secured by Portland, Oregon office building in hotly-contested stay relief and plan confirmation proceedings. 
• Junior Lien Creditor (San Francisco, California). Represented partially secured junior lien creditor in a contentious and protracted Bankruptcy Code § 363(f) asset purchase transaction involving creative use of claims held by creditor and third-party financing to acquire all of the debtor's assets. 
• Construction Company and Lienholder (Los Angeles, California). Represented construction management company and large lienholder in bankruptcy of residential tower in downtown Los Angeles, California, obtaining full recovery on multi-million dollar claim. 
• Burger King (Oakland, California). Represented Burger King Corporation in franchisee bankruptcy cases, orchestrating sale and transfer of restaurants to approved parties. 
• Largest Creditor in At Home (San Francisco, California). Represented the largest creditor in At Home in a corporation bankruptcy case. 
• National Law Firms (San Francisco, California). Successfully defended national law firms from fraudulent transfer claims in law firm bankruptcy, obtaining dismissal of one claim and favorable settlement in another.

Other Selected Business Litigation Representations 

• Letter of Credit Dispute (San Francisco, California). Represented beneficiary in litigation with letter of credit applicant, which enabled beneficiary to draw on multi-million-dollar letter of credit. 
• Letter of Intent Dispute (San Jose, California). Defended developer of prominent mixed-use project in trials over whether a one-page document was a non-binding letter of intent or binding contract. 
• Stock Option Dispute (San Francisco, California). Represented one of the original employees of successful technology company in dispute over entitlement to vested stock, recovering multi-million-dollar award for the employee. 
• Joint Venture Dispute (San Francisco, California). Defended developer in dispute with joint venture partner against breach of contract and breach of fiduciary duty claims, allowing developer to continue as managing member of large commercial office development. 
• Partnership Dispute (Los Angeles, California). Represented partner in dispute over ownership and right to profits from portfolio of apartment buildings in Los Angeles, obtaining a favorable result for partner following trial.