William W.L. Yuen
Director
Phone: (808) 524-1800
Fax: (808) 524-4591
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Take a look at William W.L. Yuen's law practice and you have a snapshot of Hawai'i's real estate and business landscape over the last 35 years. Yuen's practice emphasizes real estate development and land use planning, securities law and venture capital financing, public finance law, corporate and business law, banking and financial services law, and environmental law.
Yuen's experience includes structuring real estate joint ventures, obtaining entitlements for commercial and residential projects, organizing venture capital funds and technology startups, assisting land owners in the transition from plantation agriculture to other land uses, and structuring complex financing transactions.
Yuen has represented clients before the State of Hawai'i Land Use Commission, Board of Land and Natural Resources and various County Planning Commissions, Planning Departments and Boards of Appeal. He is one of the few attorneys in Hawai'i with formal education and experience as a professional planner, having worked as an urban planner prior to practicing law.
Yuen's public finance law experience has earned Alston Hunt Floyd & Ing designation as experienced municipal bond attorneys in The Bond Buyer's Municipal Marketplace (the "Red Book"). Yuen has served as bond counsel, underwriter's counsel, bank counsel, borrower's counsel and trustee's counsel in several billion dollars of bond transactions.
Yuen is a member of the American Planning Association and the National Association of Bond Lawyers; a past chair of the Hawaii State Bar Association's Ssection on Real Property and Financing Services; and an officer and director of the Hawai'i Forest Institute. He has previously served as a Director of Pacific Resources, Inc., when it was Hawai'i's only Fortune 500 company. Yuen's public service includes serving as chairman of the Research Corporation of the University of Hawai'i, chairman of the State of Hawai'i Land Use Commission, and Member of the State of Hawai'i Board of Land and Natural Resources.
Practice Areas
Real Estate Development and Land Use Planning
Securities Law and Venture Capital Financing
Public Finance Law
Corporate and Business Law
Banking and Financial Services
Environmental Law
Admitted to Practice
- Hawai`i
- U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Awards and Recognition
- Listed in The Bond Buyer's Municipal Marketplace (The Red Book)
- Martindale-Hubbell AV rating (1991-present)
Affiliations
- Hawai`i State Bar Association
- Real Property and Financing Services Section (past chair)
- Business Law Section
- Natural Resources Section
- American Bar Association
- Corporation, Banking and Business Law Section
- Real Property, Probate and Trust Law Section
- American Planning Association
- National Association of Bond Lawyers
- Association of Yale Alumni - National Board of Governors (1996-1999)
- Hawai'i Forest Institute
Publications
- Commissioner of Financial Institutions Report to the Sixteenth State Legislature on Interstate Banking in Hawai'i, prepared for the Legislature of the State of Hawai'i, Jan. 1992.
- Co-author, Hawaiian Fishpond Study, prepared for Hawaii Coastal Zone Management Program, Sept. 1990.
- Co-author, Kauai Shoreline Erosion Management Study, prepared for Hawaii Coastal Zone Management Program, Sept. 1990.
- Principal author and study team coordinator, Leasehold Conversion of Condominiums and Cooperative Housing Projects (prepared for Housing Finance and Development Corporation of the State of Hawai'i, Jan. 1988).
- Co-author, Public Access to Beaches in Hawai'i: a Social Necessity, 10 Hawaii Bar Journal 3, Spring 1973.
Education
- Rutgers University School of Law (J.D.)
- Yale University (Master of City Planning; B.A. in History)
Past Positions
- Ching, Yuen & Morikawa
- Moon, O'Connor, Tam & Yuen
- Case & Lynch
- Associate and Partner (1974-1987)
- Chief Justice William S. Richardson, Hawai'i Supreme Court
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