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Bradley P. Thoreson

Bradley P. Thoreson

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Buchalter

Buchalter

United States • Seattle Elite

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Real estate

Bradley P. Thoreson chairs the regional litigation at Buchalter, focusing on high-stakes commercial real estate litigation for some of the US largest owners and developers. Thoreson’s roster includes major funds and businesses, and he regularly secures nine-figure recoveries for clients across the US and in cross-border matters. Thoreson handles disputes through all stages, from pre-litigation strategy to trial, arbitration, and post-judgment enforcement. Thoreson has experience in diverse settings, including trial, appellate, and supreme court levels in Washington, California, and Michigan.
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Phone
206.319.7036
Email
[email protected]
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Accolades

Seattle Elite

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Work Department
Real Estate
Position

Partner

Career

Bradley Thoreson is a Partner in Buchalter’s Seattle office and the Chair of the Firm’s Pacific Northwest Litigation Practice Group. Brad’s complex commercial litigation practice focuses on commercial real estate for some of the largest owners and developers in the United States. Recently, Brad had the opportunity to represent Unico Properties, Blackstone, EQ Office, CIM Group, Revantage, BRE, Hudson Pacific, Urban Visions, Pacific Oak Capital Advisors, LBA Realty, Holland Partner Group, Madison Development Group, and MainStreet Property in substantial real property disputes with most claims exceeding $10,000,000.

Brad’s practice also includes “bet the company” litigation. He has successfully tried cases involving large sums including a $97,000,000 jury verdict in Federal Court and a $230,000,000 recovery for the University of Washington Treasury Department adverse to its former custodial bank. In the last two years, he successfully saved a profitable company from insolvency by engaging in strategic intervention leading to unified decision making from divergent member interests and a going concern avoiding collapse and loss of over $10,000,000.

More recently, Brad was able to recover over $10,000,000 for three (3) different building owner clients for unpaid COVID rent from LA Fitness in 14 different states overcoming many defenses, including the assertion that force majeure from government closures forgave the payment of rent for those periods of time. Three cases required success at the trial court, appellate court and Supreme Court levels in the states of Washington, California and Michigan.

Brad has also been able to resolve through negotiation, arbitration (where required) and litigation many private company disputes, some involving assets exceeding $100,000,000 favorable for the firm’s client(s).  He also represented Sono Bello across the country in contract disputes, favorably resolving all for his client.

Showing Brad’s tenacity for his clients, he recently had one of the more remarkable results in the past year, obtaining through a series of orders leading to a contempt order against a municipality appointed hearing examiner with an order of jail time until the decision was rendered, likely the first of its kind in Skagit County or anywhere else in the State Washington.

Memberships
  • Board of Trustees, Seattle Pacific University
  • Board of Governors, Washington Athletic Club
  • Adjunct Faculty, Seattle Pacific University- teaching the MBA Graduate Legal Environment of Business class
  • Elect to Board of Trustees, 101 Club, 2019-2021
  • Board Chair of the Corporate Board of Directors, Boys & Girls Clubs of King County
Education
  • University of Puget Sound, J.D., 1988
  • Seattle Pacific University, B.S., 1985

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