Wayne Gittinger focuses his practice on business counseling, securities, corporate governance and transactional work. Practice Group and Specialty Team Memberships · Antitrust and Trade Regulation · Business · Corporate Finance and Securities · Retail Representative Matters and Clients · 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. · Represented U.S. companies in matters before the Consumer Products Safety Commission. · Represented a U.S. meatpacker in the acquisition of an Iowa beefpacker. · 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. · 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. Awards and Honors · Peer Review Rated "AV" in Martindale-Hubbell · Named as one of The Best Lawyers in America®, Corporate, 1988-2012 Professional and Community Activities · American Bar Association, Business Law, Antitrust, and Labor and Employment 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 · Board of Directors, Seattle Police Foundation · Business Council, Seattle Humane Society · Member, Campaign Leadership Council for Swedish Medical Center Foundation · University of Washington Law School Alumni Board, 1986-1992 News 12.28.2011, Twenty Lane Powell Attorneys Listed as 'Best in the Business' by Seattle Business Magazine 08.31.2011, 43 Lane Powell Attorneys Named in The Best Lawyers in America® 2012 06.14.2011, Campbell Elected to Board of Directors of LAW Fund 08.05.2010, 41 Lane Powell Attorneys Named in 'Best Lawyers in America' 2011 07.20.2010, 58 Lane Powell Attorneys Listed as Top Lawyers in Seattle Metropolitan Magazine 04.13.2010, Puget Sound Business Journal Names Best Lawyers 2010 07.30.2009, 34 Lane Powell Attorneys Named in 'Best Lawyers in America' 2010 06.01.2009, Puget Sound Business Journal Names Best Lawyers 2009 03.16.2009, Gittinger Honored For More Than 25 Years as a 'Best Lawyer' 09.19.2008, 29 Lane Powell Attorneys Named in The Best Lawyers in America 2009 09.04.2007, 26 Lane Powell Attorneys Named in The Best Lawyers in America 2008 09.18.2006, Twenty-Six Lane Powell Attorneys Named in The Best Lawyers in America® 07.01.2006, More Lane Powell Attorneys Named in Best of Survey 09.06.2005, Nineteen Firm Lawyers Named 'The Best' 05.25.2005, Gittinger Retires from Nordstrom Board 10.25.2004, Seventeen Lane Powell Lawyers Named The Best Lawyers In America® 10.09.2002, The Best Lawyers in America® |