Glenn P. Zwang
San Francisco, CA
Shareholder
phone (415) 227-0900
fax      (415) 904-3122
email gzwang@buchalter.com
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Biography

Glenn P. Zwang is a Shareholder in the firm's Litigation Practice Group. Among his clients are Fortune 500 companies, lending institutions, major real estate companies, corporate officers and directors, small- to medium-sized businesses, and high-wealth individuals. Mr. Zwang counsels clients on how to minimize risk and avoid litigation by analyzing their options early on, and works with clients to craft creative business solutions to difficult problems. When a case must be litigated, Mr. Zwang has an outstanding and extensive track record of success in jury trials, court trials, arbitrations, and appeals.

Representative Matters

Jury verdict exonerating control system designer/manufacturer accused of causing chiller plant failure leading to damage to NASA's supercomputers. (San Jose, CA)

Arbitration award setting fair market value purchase price of real property at over $20 million. (San Francisco, CA)

Judgment compelling corporate majority to buy minority's shares for $5 million after freezing them out of corporate management and profits. (Santa Ana, CA)

Jury verdict in favor of department store tenant against shopping mall owner seeking to terminate long-term under-market lease. (Los Angeles, CA)

$8 million settlement against corporate officers and directors accused of breach of fiduciary duty. (San Jose, CA)

Injunction freezing assets of corporate embezzler. (Lansing, MI)

Injunction to stop major shopping center expansion. (Phoenix, AZ)

Arbitration award exonerating general partners of limited partnership accused of fraud and mismanagement. (San Francisco, CA)

Judgment in favor of large national retailer accused of breaching operating covenant, use provision, and radius clause. (Reno, NV)

Jury verdict exonerating high-rise office building owner accused of fraud. (San Francisco, CA)

Partial summary judgment defeating lender liability lawsuit followed by favorable settlement (San Diego, CA)

$5 million settlement to remedy improperly compacted soil underneath distribution center. (Charlotte N.C.)

Published Appellate Cases

Veyna v. Orange County Nursery, Inc. (2009) 170 Cal.App.4th 146 [defeating corporation's attempt to stay dissolution and liquidation after unfair treatment of minority shareholders]

Casden Park La Brea Retail LLC v. Ross Dress for Less, Inc. (2008) 162 Cal.App.4th 468 [defeating challenge to fair market rent arbitration award]

Adobe Lumber, Inc. v. F. Warren Hellman, et al. (2008) 523 F.3d 924 [establishing right to cost contribution against former property owners under CERCLA]

Howard S. Wright Construction Co. v. Superior Court (BBIC Investors) (2003) 106 Cal.App.4th 314 [mechanic's lien subject to pre-trial expungement]

Golden Gateway Center v. Golden Gateway Tenants Assn. (2001) 26 Cal.4th 1013 [upholding apartment owner's private property rights against tenants' free speech claim]

Mr. Zwang has been selected as one of Northern California's Super Lawyers in 2009, 2010, and 2011 and was also selected as a Northern California Super Lawyer, Corporate Counsel Edition in 2010 and 2011.

Mr. Zwang earned his J.D. at the University of California, Hastings College of the Law in 1983 and his B.A. at the University of California, Los Angeles in 1979. He is admitted to practice in all state and federal courts in California

Areas of Practice

• Real Estate Litigation
• Financial Institutions Litigation
• Business Dissolutions
• Construction Litigation
• Insurance Litigation
• Fraud and Mismanagement

Bar Admissions

• California
• U.S. District Court Central District of California
• U.S. District Court Eastern District of California
• U.S. District Court Northern District of California
• U.S. District Court Southern District of California
• U.S. Court of Appeals 9th Circuit