Shareholder

Los Angeles

Direct: 213.891.5135

Office: 213.891.0700

psohi@buchalter.com

Bar Admissions

California

Languages

Farsi/Persian

Overview

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Pooya E. Sohi represents public and private companies in a variety of state and federal court cases involving contract disputes, commercial litigation, and business torts, including tortious interference, fraud, and breach of fiduciary duty.  Mr. Sohi has extensive experience in real estate litigation and has successfully prosecuted lawsuits involving multi-million dollar purchase and sale transactions, specific performance of sale agreements, and various other real estate related disputes including those arising from the financing of commercial properties, real estate investments, easement disputes, and broker disclosure issues.  Mr. Sohi also represents regional and national lenders, banks, financial institutions, and REITs.  In addition, Mr. Sohi has expertise in matters arising from partnership and joint venture disputes, creditor’s rights, receiverships, and intellectual property.

Among the representative litigation matters Mr. Sohi has handled are defense of claims for tens of millions of dollars arising from alleged fraud and Ponzi schemes, prosecution and defense of breach of contract and fraud claims between corporate entities and their principals, prosecution of claims against officers of publicly held companies for mismanagement and self-dealing, defense of class actions, and numerous other complex litigation matters.

Mr. Sohi also advises cannabis businesses as a member of the Firm’s Cannabis & Hemp Industry Law Group, whose representative clients include investment funds, multi-state operators, cultivators, manufacturers, distributors, retailers, intellectual property licensors, equipment lessors, factors, receivers, and lenders.

·  Successfully defended a major apparel company against a hostile corporate takeover involving fraud and misconduct by the company’s ousted 50% owner and his insiders, including outside counsel and a court-appointed provisional director.

·  Secured a multi-million-dollar jury verdict following a four-week trial in a partnership dispute arising from a breach of oral agreement.

·  Obtained a multi-million-dollar stipulated judgment for a private equity firm in a commercial guaranty action after the first day of jury trial.

·  Prevailed in a bench trial on behalf of a real estate investor and developer, obtaining a multi-million-dollar judgment and full recovery of attorneys’ fees in a breach of contract case.

·  Achieved a complete defense victory for broker and seller defendants in a real estate dispute involving claims of professional liability, including an award of attorneys’ fees in the full amount requested.

·  Defended a nationwide mortgage lender in a breach of contract action seeking more than $40 million in damages arising from secondary-market securitizations.

· Prosecuted a trade secret and unfair competition action and obtained a preliminary injunction compelling the return of misappropriated data and prohibiting defendants from soliciting customers using the client’s confidential information.

·  Represented lenders in multiple state and federal court receivership actions involving the recovery and disposition of real and personal property collateral.

Admissions

  • California
  • U.S. District Court for the Central District of California
  • U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California
  • United States Court of Appeals Ninth Circuit

Education

  • University of California College of the Law, San Francisco, J.D.
  • University of California, Davis, B.A., Political Science, magna cum laude

  • Volunteer, Los Angeles County Bar Association’s Domestic Violence Project, assists victims of domestic violence obtain restraining orders and financial assistance for relocation purposes.
  • Volunteer, Los Angeles Department of Children and Family Services, represents prospective adoptive parents at adoption proceedings.

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