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Michael

Michael D. Dwyer
Retired
Seattle

With more than 40 years of experience, Mike Dwyer understood the importance of listening to clients, determined their needs and wants, and provided practical legal and business advice to help clients launch, grow and protect their businesses.  

He regularly counseled clients on:

  • Entity selection and organization,
  • Borrowing and lending,
  • Private equity,
  • Contracting,
  • Dispute resolution and risk mitigation,
  • Mergers and acquisitions,
  • Commercial and office leasing,
  • Equipment and personal property leasing,
  • Land assembly and real estate transactions, and
  • Secured transactions and tax.

Mike worked with a broad spectrum of individual business owners and entrepreneurs, large and small organizations, and nonprofit and tax-exempt organizations in a variety of industries including:

  • Agriculture,
  • Cancer research,
  • Healthcare,
  • Investment banking,
  • Timber and forest products,
  • Manufacturing,
  • Shipbuilding,
  • Equipment leasing,
  • Office leasing,
  • Real estate development, and
  • Technology.

Experience

  • Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
    Formation of the Seattle Cancer Care Alliance
  • Georgia-Pacific Corporation
    Sale of 137 Acres
  • WSY, Inc.
    Sale of Manufacturing and Vessel-Sales Facilities
  • PSA Composites LLC
    Sale of PSA Composites LLC to Weyerhaeuser Company
  • Simpson Lumber Company, LLC
    $94.7M Sale of Sawmills
  • Diamond Technology Innovations, Inc.
    Sale of Industrial Diamond Technology for Waterjet Cutting Tools to Bourn & Koch, Inc.
  • Olympic Medical Corporation
    Sale of Olympic Medical Corporation to Natus Medical Incorporated

 

Professional Experience

Lane Powell PC

  • Counsel to the Firm (2016-2022)
  • Shareholder (1978-2016)
  • Co-Managing Partner (1998-2002)
  • Partner in Charge (1994-2002)
  • Joined the Firm (January 2, 1973) 

Community Involvement

General Counsel and Trustee, Greater Seattle Chamber of Commerce, Former Secretary (1999-2014)

United States Law Firm Group, Past President (2004)

American Bar Association, Business Section

Washington State Bar Association, Business Section and Real Estate Section

Thought Leadership

  • August 20, 2020News
    The Best Lawyers in America© 2021 Recognizes 92 Lane Powell Attorneys
    Awards & Honors
  • August 15, 2019News
    The Best Lawyers in America© 2020 Recognizes 63 Lane Powell Attorneys
    Awards & Honors
  • August 15, 2018News
    The Best Lawyers in America© 2019 Recognizes 62 Lane Powell Attorneys
    Awards & Honors
  • June 18, 2018News
    Thirty-two Lane Powell Attorneys Named ‘Washington Super Lawyers’ and 14 Named ‘Washington Rising Stars’
    Awards & Honors
  • August 15, 2017News
    Fifty-nine Lane Powell Attorneys Named in The Best Lawyers® in America 2018
    Awards & Honors
  • June 9, 2017News
    Thirty-one Lane Powell Attorneys Named ‘Washington Super Lawyers’ and 16 Named ‘Washington Rising Stars’
    Awards & Honors
  • August 17, 2016News
    Fifty-one Lane Powell Attorneys Named in The Best Lawyers in America® 2017
    Awards & Honors
  • August 17, 2015News
    Forty-eight Lane Powell Attorneys Named in The Best Lawyers in America® 2016
    Awards & Honors
  • June 12, 2015News
    Thirty-two Lane Powell Attorneys Named ‘Washington Super Lawyers’ and 11 Named as ‘Washington Rising Stars’
    Awards & Honors
  • August 18, 2014News
    Fifty-One Lane Powell Attorneys Named in The Best Lawyers in America® 2015
    Awards & Honors
  • June 13, 2014News
    Thirty-five Lane Powell Attorneys Named ‘Washington Super Lawyers’ and Fifteen Named as ‘Washington Rising Stars’
    Awards & Honors
  • June 14, 2013News
    Thirty-Six Lane Powell Attorneys Named ‘Washington Super Lawyers’ and Sixteen Named as ‘Washington Rising Stars’
    Awards & Honors
  • June 13, 2012News
    28 Lane Powell Attorneys Named ‘Washington Super Lawyers;’ 12 Named as ‘Washington Rising Stars’
    Awards & Honors
  • August 9, 2011News
    Thirty-six Lane Powell Attorneys Listed as Top Lawyers in Seattle Metropolitan Magazine
    Awards & Honors
  • June 20, 2011News
    Twenty-six Lane Powell Attorneys Named ‘Washington Super Lawyers;’ Ten Lane Powell Attorneys Named As ‘Washington Rising Stars’
    Awards & Honors
  • July 20, 2010News
    58 Lane Powell Attorneys Listed as Top Lawyers in Seattle Metropolitan Magazine
    Awards & Honors
  • June 6, 2010News
    28 Lane Powell Attorneys Named Washington Super Lawyers 2010
    Awards & Honors

Education

  • George Washington University, J.D., 1972
    • Order of the Coif
    • George Washington University Law Review, Notes Editor (1971-1972)
  • University of Washington, B.A., cum laude, 1969

Admissions

  • Washington
  • U.S. District Court, Eastern and Western Districts of Washington
  • U.S. Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit

Honors

The Best Lawyers in America©, Corporate (2001-2021); Real Estate (2018-2021)

“Washington Super Lawyer,” Thomson Reuters, Business/Corporate (1999, 2002-2018)

“Top Business Lawyers,” Seattle Business magazine (2008)

“Best Lawyers,” survey published by Seattle Metropolitan (2006-2007)

AV Preeminent® in Martindale-Hubbell® Peer Review Ratings™

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