D. Wayne Gittinger

D. Wayne Gittinger

Wayne Gittinger focuses his practice on domestic and international business counseling, transactional and litigation work for U.S. and foreign corporations.

Business

· Business

· Corporate Finance and Securities

· Antitrust Litigation and Counseling

Practice Group and Specialty Team Memberships

· Antitrust and Trade Regulation

· Business

· Corporate Finance and Securities

· Retail

Representative Matters and Clients

· Represented a U.S. brewer in an importing and custom brewing arrangement with a German brewer in Hamburg, Germany.

· Represented a Japanese trading company in antitrust litigation in the United States involving seafood.

· Acted as co-counsel to a U.S. company in a debt-equity financing in Chile.

· Represented a U.S. importer of wearing apparel in an insolvency proceeding of a selling agent in the United Kingdom.

· Acted as co-counsel in an action in Germany to recover the value of wood pulp destroyed in the warehouse of a bailee for hire.

· Represented a Canadian company's U.S. subsidiary in structuring transactions for the export of wood chips to Japan.

· Represented a U.S. company in the acquisition of timber cutting rights and formation of operating subsidiaries in Saskatchewan and Alberta, Canada.

· Represented U.S. companies in matters before the Consumer Products Safety Commission.

· Represented a U.S. company in the acquisition of distribution outlets in Pennsylvania and Kentucky.

· Represented a U.S. meatpacker in the acquisition of an Iowa beefpacker and in the acquisition of Nebraska feedlots.

· Represented a U.S. company in the sale of Alaska seafood facilities to a U.S. company.

· Represented a U.S. company in connection with public debt and equity offering and other matters with the S.E.C and N.Y.S.E.

Awards and Honors

· Rated "AV" in Martindale-Hubbell

· Named as one of The Best Lawyers in America® 1988-2010

· Named in "Best Lawyers" survey published by Seattle Metropolitan Magazine, 2006-2007

Professional and Community Activities

· American Bar Association, Business Law and Antitrust Sections

· Director, Nordstrom, Inc., 1971-2004

· Director, Pabst Brewing Company, 1983-1985

· Chair, Tyee Board of Advisors, 1990-1991

· Board of Directors and Executive Committee, Seattle Sports Commission

· Board of Directors, First Tee of Greater Seattle

· University of Washington Law School Alumni Board, 1986-1992