February 2012 
Dinner Meeting 

 Tuesday, February 21, 2012      
  5:30 - 8:30 PM 

Sinbad's
141 The Embarcadero 
San Francisco, CA  

                                                                             (415) 781-2555
                                                             (Next to the SF Ferry Building) 

Contact Greg Demetrulias at gdemetrulias@saylorconsulting.com with your dinner choice.  There will be a cost of $40 for members and $45 for non-members

 

                                                                    Nick Merrell 
                                                                        presents
                                                                 Construction Law

Nick Merrell
Associate with Watt, Tieder, Hoffar, & Fitzgerald, LLP

Nick Merrell is dedicated to delivering superior and cost-effective results in every dispute. His practice focuses on government contracts, construction litigation and suretyship. Nick has advised clients in a variety of venues and disputes, including international arbitration proceedings and federal government bid protests. He represents general contractors, designers, sureties, and owners on a wide variety of disputes, such as terminations for default, preparation of delay and disruption claims, fraudulent billing cases, asset analysis and collection, creditors’ rights, advising government contractors on small business and mentor-protégé issues, green building issues, licensure issues for both contractors and engineers, claims under prompt payment statutes and labor compliance disputes. During law school, where Nick graduated with academic honors, he interned with the Honorable Mary Gooden Terrell at the Superior Court for the District of Columbia.

Representative Matters

• Represented private contractor against public utility protestor in connection with award of $500 million military utilities privatization contract at the U.S. Army Aberdeen Proving Ground.
• Represent contractor in connection with protest of $2 billion logistical support contract for the National Science Foundation’s Antarctic Program.
• Obtained 100% recovery for prime contractor, plus interest and attorneys’ fees, on $26 million shopping mall project outside of Sacramento, California where owner was involved in one of the largest real estate bankruptcies in United States history.
• Represented UAE-based developer in connection with five arbitration proceedings in London and Dubai arising out of failed slurry wall on Infinity Tower in Dubai Marina.
• Represent contractor in lawsuit for breach of joint venture agreement arising out of largest solar power project in the world.
• Successfully avoided a debtor’s transfers of a dozen real estate assets to shell LLCs based on violations of the Uniform Fraudulent Transfer Act.
• Represented surety on zero-loss settlement from the City and County of San Francisco on $120 million bus procurement.
• Negotiated 100% recovery on claims of prime contractor, plus award of additional completion work, on $11 million distressed commercial real estate construction project from receiver on lender’s FDIC receivership.
• Negotiated with public entity to indemnify and defend prime contractor against prevailing wage claims on California public work of improvement due to uncertainty in unsettled area of law.
• Represented contractor in connection with successful conversion of state agency’s wrongful termination for default into termination for convenience arising out of multi-million dollar complex construction litigation.