stubenbergdurrett

James A. Stubenberg
jstubenberg@stubenbergdurrett.com
Phone (808) 526-0892


	James A. Stubenberg is a founding partner of Stubenberg & Durrett. He has extensive experience in the areas of financial services, real estate development and construction, commercial transactions and land use entitlements as well as real estate related litigation. He has represented leading financial institutions, developers and other commercial entities in Hawaii, the U.S. mainland and the Asia‑Pacific Rim in connection with major retail, industrial, residential and resort projects in Hawaii. A significant portion of his practice involves working closely with mainland counsel to further the interest of their clients in Hawaii related matters. Mr. Stubenberg is one of the co‑founders of Globalaw, an international network of law firms. Globalaw presently consists of 75 affiliated law firms in 50 different countries with over 5,000 lawyers. In addition, he is a trustee and Executive Director of the Gromet Foundation, one of the largest providers of college scholarships in the State. He has also served as a court appointed arbitrator since the inception of the Circuit Court arbitration program in 1985 and has sat on national committees of the American Bar Association. He has also served as an expert witness in cases relating to real estate transactions.
Bar Admissions:
	Hawaii, 1970 U.S. District Court, District of Hawaii, 1970 U.S. Supreme Court, 1977
Education:
	Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas, BBA Loyola Law School, Los Angeles, California, 1970 J.D. Senior Editor, Loyola University Law Review St. Thomas More Honor Society Alpha Sigma Nu, National Jesuit Honor Society
Representative Cases:
	Waikiki Malia Hotel v. Kinkai Properties Ltd. Partnership, 75 Haw. 370 (1993) [Landmark Hawaii case on servitudes] Swire Properties (Hawaii) Ltd. v. Zoning Board of Appeals, 73 Haw. 1 (1991) [Entitlements]
Recent Transactions:
	Hypo Real Estate Capital in the $525,000,000 construction financing of the Waikiki Trump Tower and Resort Hotel Deutsche Bank in the $400,000,000 acquisition and construction financing of the Hualalai Resort Hotel on the island of Hawaii Deutsche Bank in connection with the $400,000,000 acquisition and construction financing of the Four Seasons Wailea Hotel in Wailea, Maui, Hawaii Deutsche Bank in connection with the $300,000,000 acquisition financing of the Kona Village Resort in Kona, Hawaii Kokusai Motorcars Co., Ltd. in the acquisition of the Hyatt Regency Maui Hotel The Doris Duke Charitable Foundation in connection with the land use entitlements for Shangri-La as a museum and cultural center, Diamond Head, Hawaii Sky Chefs in connection with the disposition of its Hawaii properties Numerous developers as well as buyers and sellers of residential and industrial condominiums, shopping centers and subdivisions on all islands Major retailer in assembling an entire city block in Waikiki for the construction of a retail complex Borrower in one of the first yen-based financings in the United States Numerous land-use entitlement proceedings before all relevant agencies of the State of Hawaii and the City and County of Honolulu
Professional and Community Organizations:
	American Bar Association Hawaii Bar Association International Bar Association Inter-Pacific Bar Association National Council of Foundations National Association of Scholarship Providers Armed Services YMCA (Chairman, 1999) Aloha United Way Waikiki Improvement Association Who's Who of Real Estate Lawyers 2008 Who's Who of Business Lawyers 2008

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