Company Profile
Yamamoto Caliboso LLLC
Company Overview
Yamamoto Caliboso is a unique and highly specialized law firm based in Honolulu, Hawaii, which concentrates principally on project development and finance, commercial, transactional and regulatory law matters. All of our attorneys and staff are dedicated to providing our clients with legal representation and counseling of the highest quality. As a boutique firm, our principals are able to provide hands-on representation to each of our clients. Our principals are always intimately involved in all client matters, ensuring that our clients receive the benefit of extensive experience.
Our principals have each honed their skills at large, prominent Hawaii law firms. We are committed to providing our clients with the best legal representation typically associated with large law firms but service with the personalized touch that a boutique firm can offer.
Our practice areas include energy law and policy, real estate and finance law, public utilities law, telecommunications law, water law, and corporate and business law. The following materials describe our practice areas in more detail.
As a boutique law firm focusing on specialized areas of the law, we are mindful that our clients will have legal needs beyond those we offer. To ensure that our clients receive the very best representation in other specialized areas of the law, we have developed alliances and close working relationships with other outstanding law firms and attorneys in Hawaii, the U.S. Mainland and Asia to assist us on various matters such as tax, employment, intellectual property and complex litigation.
AREAS OF PRACTICE
ENERGY LAW
• Power Purchase Agreements
• Interconnection Agreements
• Project Development
• Project Financing
• Permitting and Land Use
• Energy Policy, Legislation and Strategy
• Public Utilities and Regulatory Matters
• Site Control
• EPC Agreements
We have one of the largest energy law practices in the State of Hawaii. Our clients include developers of wind, solar, hydro, biomass, and biofuel projects, as well as one of the two petroleum refineries in Hawaii. Additionally, we represent various EPC companies. We assist our clients in a wide range of areas, including acquisition, financing, permitting and entitlements, federal, state and local regulatory matters, EPC contracts, and power purchase and other off take agreements. We have extensive experience negotiating with all of Hawaii’s electric utilities. We regularly appear before the Hawaii Public Utilities Commission on energy and other matters, and we regularly work with the Division of Consumer Advocacy of the Hawaii Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs, and the Strategic Industries Division of the Hawaii Department of Business, Economic Development and Tourism. We are involved, on behalf of various clients, in numerous energy policy forums and proceedings. We also assisted in the drafting of recently-enacted legislation relating to energy matters, including legislation establishing streamlined permitting and entitlement processes for utility-scale renewable energy projects.
REAL ESTATE AND FINANCE LAW
• Banking and Finance
• Purchases and Sales
• Subdivisions, Condominiums and Planned Developments
• Shopping Centers, Hotels and Resorts
• Golf Courses
• Real Estate Development
• Affordable Housing
• Commercial Leasing
• Zoning and Permitting
• Water Rights
• Construction Contracts
We represent owners, lenders, developers, lessors and lessees of commercial, industrial, resort and residential real estate in Hawaii. Such work includes drafting and negotiating acquisition, financing, leasing, and development (subdivisions, condominiums and planned developments) documentation, along with procuring land use and other governmental approvals and permits.
We represent several of Hawaii’s largest institutional landowners, including the Queen Emma Land Company (fka The Queen Emma Foundation), Castle & Cooke, Inc. and Alexander & Baldwin, Inc., in connection with a wide range of real estate activities, including acquisitions, sales and leasing.
We represent several national lenders in connection with their commercial and community lending activities in Hawaii. We have extensive experience in drafting and negotiating loan documents and in coordinating the closing of complex financing transactions for real estate developments, construction loans, term loans and other secured transactions.
We also have significant experience in the finance and development of affordable housing and government-sponsored projects, including projects involving federal and state low-income housing tax credits (representation of lenders and developers), Hawaiian Home Lands (representation of lenders and developers), and Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corporation (representation of developers).
PUBLIC UTILITIES AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS LAW
• Infrastructure Development and Deployment
• Public Utilities and Regulatory Matters
• Consumer Protection
• FCC Licensing
We have a broad range of experience in public utilities, telecommunications and energy law. Our attorneys have represented a broad range of utilities and service providers, including telecommunications providers, independent power providers, renewable energy project developers, and water and sewer service providers. Our attorneys represent or have represented many telecommunications companies and entrepreneurs, including competitive local exchange carriers, cellular, PCS, EMSR and LMDS wireless licensees, and eligible telecommunications carriers. Our work for such clients include seeking FCC licenses for wireless spectrum, public utilities and other regulatory matters, infrastructure development, leasing and licensing of antenna sites, and land use and zoning matters. Our attorneys have served as Hawaii counsel in connection with the merger of Charter Communications with Time Warner Cable and Bright House Networks and the development of the Hawaii networks for three international wireless carriers, VoiceStream Wireless (now T-Mobile), Nextel Communications/Nextel Partners (now Sprint Nextel) and Clear, LLC. We are also Hawaii counsel for one of the largest telecommunications providers in the world, CenturyLink.
CORPORATE AND BUSINESS LAW
• Business Formations
• Corporate Governance
• Mergers and Acquisitions
• Stock and Asset Purchases and Sales
• Contract Documentation
• Limited Liability Companies, Partnerships and Joint Ventures
We provide a wide range of legal services to organizations conducting business in Hawaii. We have formed and represent numerous corporations, partnerships, limited partnerships and limited liability companies, and have extensive experience in mergers and acquisitions, stock and asset transactions, and corporate governance matters. In addition, we routinely prepare documentation for various business arrangements entered into by our corporate clients.
We represent one of the largest health care providers and hospital systems in Hawaii, The Queen’s Health Systems, in a wide range of corporate and business matters. Additionally, we represent one of Hawaii’s most active venture capital groups, PacifiCap Group, Inc., in various of its organizational and investment activities.
Notable Clients
Alexander & Baldwin, Inc. American Tower Corporation Bank of America, N.A. Bosch Solar Energy Corp. Bridgeview Capital Solutions, L.L.C. Castle & Cooke, Inc. CenturyLink Charter Communications Chevron U.S.A., Inc. Chevron Energy Solutions City and County of Honolulu ClearFuels Technology, Inc. Comcast Corporation Consolidated Entertainment, Inc. Diagnostic Laboratory Services, Inc. ECC Energy Solutions, LLC EDF Renewable Energy Eurus Energy America Corporation First Hawaiian Bank First Wind Holdings, LLC Ford Island Properties, LLC Forest City Hawaii, LLC Gestamp Asetym North America Gramercy Capital Corporation Hawaiian Commercial & Sugar, A Division of Alexander & Baldwin, Inc. Hawaii Pacific University Hawi Renewable Development, LLC Hu Honua Bioenergy, LLC Imperium Renewables, Inc. Innergex Invenergy LLC Island Pacific Energy, LLC Kaiser Foundation Health Plan, Inc. Keahole Solar Power, LLC Lanai Resorts, LLC (Pulama Lanai) Lanai Sustainability Research, LLC Lynch Investments, LLC MMA Renewable Ventures, LLC MMK Maui L.P. (King Kamehameha Golf Club) Molokai General Hospital NRG, Inc. OpTerra Energy Services Parker Ranch Phoenix Solar, Inc. Queen Emma Land Company Republic Airways Holdings Inc. Scatec Solar North America, Inc. Sempra Energy Sprint Nextel Corporation (fka Nextel Communications, Inc. and Nextel Partners, Inc.) SunEdison LLC Sustainable Power Group, LLC Tama Home America LLC The Queen’s Health Systems The Queen’s Medical Center The Shansby Group United States Trust Company, N.A. U.S. Bank, N.A.
Benefits
Health Insurance (first of the month following your date of employment)
Medical, dental, drug and vision coverage from HMSA or Kaiser Permanente
Flexible Spending Accounts
Temporary Disability Insurance
Long-Term Disability Insurance
Worker’s Compensation Insurance
Unemployment Compensation Insurance
Paid Vacation
Paid Holidays
Paid Sick Leave
Retirement Plan (including 401k plan)
Merit Bonus
Professional Association Dues (ABA, HSBA)
Local Seminars and Mainland Seminars