Bradley Thoreson is a Shareholder 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.