Kaveh Badiei

Transactional: 

• Draft, review, and negotiate numerous general contracts, EPC agreements, subcontracts, joint-venture agreements, and design-build contracts for commercial or residential projects.
• Counsel and advise public agencies and private companies on preparing and responding to requests for proposal and contract negotiations for design-build or public-private partnership projects.

Dispute Resolution on Select Matters:

• Underground utilities:
  
  • Represented the utility owner in a multi-million dollar claim by the general contractor on the installation of nearly 1,900 miles of underground fiber optics lines.
  • Prosecuted a general contractor’s claim for improper termination, delay, and disruption against a public entity in a project involving underground water pipe installation.
  • Represent a general contractor against utility owner in a dispute arising from failure to mark utilities under the USA guidelines.
• BART Extension: Represent the general contractor in a dispute with one of its subcontractors.
• Hospital: Represent a hospital operator in a delayed and deficient construction of new hospital.
• San Francisco Transbay Terminal: Represent various subcontractors in their contractual disputes arising from their work.
• Custom Homes: Represent and counsel homeowners in contractual disputes and construction defects.
• Homeowners Association: Representation of an HOA against the general contractor for various contractual disputes and defective workmanship.
• Adjoining Properties: Represent property owner and litigate scope of easement and encumbrances by and between adjoining property owners.
• Historic Building: Trial counsel for the owner of a historic building in an action involving property damage caused by the construction of the neighboring high-rise building; the jury returned a multi-million dollars verdict in favor of a historic-building owner.
• Waste Water Treatment Plant: Trial counsel for a subcontractor on a wastewater treatment plant in a California False Claims Act and breach of contract action, which resulted in a 12-0 jury verdict in favor of the subcontractor and recovery all of the subcontractor’s attorneys’ fees.
• Solar Energy: Arbitrated a general contractor’s claim against the owner on a dispute involving the construction of a solar energy facility.
• Research Laboratory: Favorably resolved a subcontractor’s pass-through claims for delay, disruption and cost overruns against a general contractor and Department of Energy/National Nuclear Security Administration.
• Hotel: Defended a construction lender in a mechanic’s lien action brought by over twenty lien claimants, involving over $10 million in lien claims.
• Residential Development: Represented a developer in a defective-construction claim brought by over 1,000 homeowners.