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Categories: Wills, Trusts & Estate Planning Attorneys, Accident & Property Damage Attorneys, Attorneys, Bankruptcy Law Attorneys, Business Law Attorneys, Business Litigation Attorneys, Corporation & Partnership Law Attorneys, Criminal Law Attorneys, Estate Planning, Probate, & Living Trusts, Personal Injury Law Attorneys, Real Estate Attorneys, Tax Attorneys

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Phone: (503) 972-9920

Address: 888 SW 5th Ave Ste 1250, Portland, OR 97204

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Chellis Michael R

Criminal Defense

Business and Corporate Law

Corporate Law
Chris Gram is a founding shareholder of the firm and a transactional lawyer. His primary focus is representing clients in all aspects of real property transactions including buying, selling, developing, leasing and financing real property. Chris's practice also includes general business and corporate law.
Business Disputes
Kevin Mapes is a commercial litigator with 25 years of experience in state and federal courts in Oregon, Washington, and California. He represents plaintiffs and defendants in a wide variety of business disputes involving commercial lending, partnership disputes, general contract matters, construction disputes, and a wide variety of commercial real estate disputes. Mr. Mapes is also an experienced environmental litigator, and has represented clients in matters involving the federal Superfund law and its state-law equivalents, claims involving RCRA and the Clean Water Act, and claims for Natural Resource Damages.
Business Transactions
Randall B. Bateman combines an active commercial real estate practice with his business practice, which gives him the unique ability to assist clients with real estate aspects of business transactions and business aspects of property transactions. In addition to being a Fellow in the American College of Mortgage Attorneys and having served as an arbitrator for the Multnomah County Circuit Court, Randy spent six years on the Board of the Portland Habilitation Center, one of the largest and most successful nonprofit employers of the disabled in the state of Oregon. His clients include Oil Can Henryâ€™s, Unisource Manufacturing, Inc., the Coffman Companies, industrial park owners, a large timber company, sawmill owners, and a host of middle market companies involved in manufacturing, distribution, franchising, the retail trades, and financial services. Randy took the lead in the $183,500,000 acquisition of a silicon wafer fabrication facility in Gresham, Oregon. Randyâ€™s business practice included representing one of North Dakotaâ€™s largest publicly traded companies in a series of business acquisitions in the state of Oregon, including two aggregate companies, a large electrical contractor, a pipeline contractor, a power line contractor, a paving company, and related assets. Until the time of sale, he served as counsel to one of the West Coastâ€™s largest suppliers of cleanroom equipment and now serves as general outside counsel to a major industrial hose manufacturer and distributor, a regional excavation contractor, a regional restaurant equipment distributor, a national automotive quick lubrication company and franchisor, and a host of other local, regional, and national companies in matters in Oregon and Washington. Randy is nationally recognized by Chambers USA, Best Lawyers in America and Super Lawyers as one of the best lawyers in America.
Limited Liability Companies
Doug is a shareholder in the firm. His practice focuses on advising partnerships, limited liability companies, business corporations and non-profit corporations in a variety of matters. He has advised investors, developers and government agencies on housing finance, New Markets Credits, the LIHTC, Fair Housing Act compliance, and a variety of other legal matters affecting the acquisition, rehabilitation, development and ownership of affordable and market-rate housing. He also represents for-profit and non-profit housing developers and housing authorities throughout the area.
Construction Contracts
Our attorneys combine their years of experience in the fields of tax, real estate, partnerships, finance, bonds, construction contracts, workouts and compliance to bring a rare level of service to virtually every type of participant in the affordable housing industry including owners, investors, syndicators, developers, lenders and credit enhancers.

Real Estate Litigation
More than a hundred years of combined experience in commercial real estate law allows Bateman Seidel to assist its clients in the most complex transactions in the marketplace. A senior member of the real estate department is nationally recognized as among the best real estate lawyers in America and locally as a top lawyer in Oregon. In addition to being licensed in Oregon and Washington, one member of the real estate department is a Fellow in the American College of Mortgage Attorneys. This national affiliation permits the Bateman Seidel real estate lawyers to stay on top of cutting edge changes in the law and allows national collaboration with other top real estate lawyers.
Construction Litigation
Bateman Seidel drafts and negotiates design services and construction documents. We also have an active construction litigation and alternative dispute resolution practice with significant experience in breach of contract and delay claims as well as design defect, construction defect, lien foreclosure and payment and performance bonds. We know that time sensitive resolution of disputes is critical to preserving the value of a housing development.
Real Estate Transactions
Chresten (Chris) J. Gramâ€™s practice involves all aspects of real estate development and ownership. He helps local, regional, and national clients acquire, develop, finance, own, manage, lease, buy, sell, and exchange real property. Chris is primary counsel to Pacific N.W. Properties Limited Partnership and Oregon Pacific Investment and Development Company, two of the most active commercial real estate owners and developers in the Portland metropolitan area. Chris has significant experience in office leases, having represented the owner of Lincoln Center (a five-building suburban office complex) and Microsoft Corporation (as tenant counsel) in office leases throughout the United States. He regularly advises clients on IRS 1031 exchanges, including reverse exchanges and tenancy in common arrangements. Chris has significant experience in real estate finance, representing lenders and borrowers in numerous transactions, including leasehold and conduit financings. His experience includes unique real estate transactions, including those specifically relating to natural gas transmission (as counsel to NW Natural Gas Company) and the leasing of wireless communicationâ€™s facilities (as counsel to T-Mobile). Chris is a former board of directors member of Portland Youthbuilders, a nonprofit entity that provides educational and construction job training to disadvantaged youth, and he continues to provide pro bono legal services to Portland Youthbuilders from time to time in connection with the development of affordable housing and related matters.
Land Use and Zoning
Chris is a member of the Oregon State Bar, including the Real Estate and Land Use Section and the Multnomah County Bar Association. He has been a speaker at a variety of continuing legal education seminars.
Landlord-Tenant Disputes
Property Damage
Kevin Mapes dedicates a significant portion of his practice to the representation of policyholders in insurance coverage disputes. His policyholder clients range from individuals and small businesses to large publicly traded companies and municipalities. Mr. Mapes represents clients on a wide range of insurance coverage issues, including environmental matters, property damage claims, construction-related claims, directors and officers coverage disputes, business interruption claims, cyber coverage claims, and general commercial liability disputes. He has successfully pursued claims based on insurer bad faith and other extra-contractual claims, and has recovered millions of dollars for his policyholder clients. Mr. Mapes also advises clients on the scope of their insurance coverage and potential issues that could arise in the future. Mr. Mapes regularly speaks and writes on insurance coverage issues.
Condominium Law
Kathleen S. Sieler works in the business and real estate departments and in the firmâ€™s nationally recognized affordable housing department. Kathleen has developed special expertise in the areas of planned communities, condominium law, federal and state interstate land sales acts and the licensing of contractors and developers. She regularly works with Randy and Mike providing prompt and price-competitive legal service.

Personal Injury
Our Litigation Practice involves both prosecuting and defending damages claims in business, real estate, commercial, construction, contract, trust and probate, personal injury, property damage, landlord-tenant, and employment matters, whether complex disputes with multiple parties or streamlined smaller claims.

Trusts and Estates

Estate Planning
Probate

Bankruptcy
Foreclosure
Bateman Seidelâ€™s strength in affordable housing gives us the ability to resolve the multitude of competing interests when working with troubled assets. We have experience in foreclosure, receivership and bankruptcy proceedings. We represent lenders, investors, and debtors. Our attorneys have assisted clients in the removal and replacement of defaulting general partners, termination of development contracts, the restructuring and workout of loans and partnerships, and the disposition of older properties.
Tax Law
Other members of the firm enhance the breadth and scope of practice. Michael R. Chellis, the firmâ€™s tax partner, handles complex partnership, limited liability company and corporate tax issues for the real estate department and other departments of the firm. Gregory J. Miner, the head of the firmâ€™s commercial litigation practice, brings more than 34 years of commercial litigation experience to bear on behalf of the firmâ€™s clients and has worked for many of the firmâ€™s real estate and business clients in resolving disputes and litigating those that cannot be resolved.

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