(Main Office)

Established in 1973 in the heart of San Francisco's financial district, Collette Erickson Farmer & O'Neill LLP counsel clients ranging from publicly traded companies and major real estate developers to small business owners, private equity investment vehicles and start-ups.

Statement of Practice

General Practice.

Firm Affiliations

MSI GLOBAL ALLIANCE

Representative Clients:

Optical Coating Laboratory, Inc.
JDS Uniphase Corporation
CoSine Communications, Inc.
HCV Pacific Partners LLC
Echo Rock Ventures, Inc.
Newbasis LLC
Spartan Motors Chassis, Inc.
Augmentum, Inc.
BayStar Capital Management, LLC
JK Harris & Company
LRG Capital Group, LLC
Spire Systems Inc.
Winbond Electronics Corporation
Rocket Paper Scissors, LLC.

Rate Information

Fixed Hourly Rates

Address

235 Pine Street, Suite 1300
San Francisco, CA 94104, (San Francisco Co.)

Phone

Phone: 415-788-4646
Facsimile: 415-788-6929

Website

http://www.collette.com

Office Hours

Monday: 08:30 AM - 05:30 PM
Tuesday: 08:30 AM - 05:30 PM
Wednesday: 08:30 AM - 05:30 PM
Thursday: 08:30 AM - 05:30 PM
Friday: 08:30 AM - 05:30 PM

Firm/Affiliate Offices

Larkspur, California Office: 80 E. Sir Francis Drake Boulevard, Suite 2G, 94939.

PARTNERS

John V. Erickson (Partner) born Grand Haven, Michigan; admitted to bar, 1972, California. Education: Stanford University (B.S., cum laude, 1966; M.S., 1967); Harvard University (J.D., cum laude, 1972). Practice Areas: Business Law; Corporate Law; Securities; Commercial Litigation; Intellectual Property Law; Real Estate.

William S. Farmer, Jr. (Partner) born Johnson City, Tennessee; admitted to bar, 1966, Texas; 1970, California. Education: Princeton University (A.B., 1963); University of Texas (J.D., 1966). Practice Areas: Antitrust, Commercial and Intellectual Property Litigation; White Collar Criminal Defense.

John J. O'Neill (Partner) born Brooklyn, New York; admitted to bar, 1982, California; 1984, U.S. Tax Court. Education: Rutgers University (B.A., with honors, 1977; J.D., with honors, 1982). (Also at Larkspur Office). Practice Areas: Business Law; Partnership Law; Corporate Law; Tax Law.

Andrew H. Pontious (Partner) born Geneva, Illinois; admitted to bar, 1991, California; 2005, South Carolina; registered to practice before U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. Education: Purdue University (B.S., 1986); Santa Clara University (J.D., 1991). Practice Areas: Intellectual Property; Commercial Litigation; Business Law; Corporate Law; Securities.

Robert S. Lawrence (Partner) born Bethesda, Maryland; admitted to bar, 1995, Illinois; 2000, California. Education: University of California at San Diego (B.A., 1991); Northwestern University School of Law (J.D., 1995). Languages: Spanish. Practice Areas: Commercial Litigation; Antitrust; Insurance Law; Intellectual Property Law.

John G. Price (Partner) born San Diego, California; admitted to bar, 1985, California. Education: University of Wisconsin (B.A., with honors, 1982); University of California, Hastings College of the Law (J.D., cum laude, 1985). Practice Areas: Mergers and Acquisitions; Corporate Law; Business Law; Securities; Intellectual Property.

Robert O. Divelbiss (Partner) born Pueblo, Colorado; admitted to bar, 1981, California. Education: Santa Clara University (B.S., magna cum laude, 1977); University of California, Hastings College of the Law (J.D., Thurston Honor Society, 1980). Practice Areas: Commercial Litigation; Real Estate Litigation; Property Tax; Construction; Labor Law; Civil RICO.

Kenneth J. Cohen (Partner) born St. Louis, Missouri; admitted to bar, 1982, California. Education: Pomona College (B.A., cum laude, 1978); Stanford University (J.D., 1982). Practice Areas: Real Estate; Land Use; Finance and Environmental Law.

Timothy M. Wong (Partner) born San Gabriel, California; admitted to bar, 1998, California. Education: University of California at Berkeley (B.A., 1990); California State University at San Francisco (M.B.A., 1994); University of San Francisco (J.D., 1998). Practice Areas: Commercial Litigation; Business Law; Corporate Law; Securities.

SENIOR ASSOCIATE

Jacob P. Alpren (Senior Associate) born San Francisco, California; admitted to bar, 2002, New York; 2005, California. Education: Amherst College (B.A., 1993); Stanford Law School (J.D., 2002). Languages: Mandarin Chinese. Practice Areas: Commercial; White Collar Criminal Defense; Intellectual Property; Antitrust Litigation.

OF COUNSEL

John M. Collette (Of Counsel) born Idaho Falls, Idaho; admitted to bar, 1963, California. Education: Stanford University (A.B., 1959); Harvard University (LL.B., 1962). Practice Areas: Real Estate; Land Use; Environmental Law; Commercial Litigation.

Themistocles G. Michos (Of Counsel) born Marion, Indiana; admitted to bar, 1960, Washington; 1961, California. Education: Harvard University (A.B., 1954); University of Athens; Yale University (LL.B., 1960). Practice Areas: Business Law; Commercial Litigation; Intellectual Property Law.