Rush Moore LLP A Limited Liability Law Partnership

DAVID S. SHIBATA
	Direct Line: (808) 521-0436
	E-Mail Address: DShibata@rmhawaii.com
	Practice Areas: Real Property & Finance and Business Transactions.
	Education: Yale University & Stanford University B.A. 1971; University of California at Los Angeles M.B.A. 1973; University of California at Davis J.D. 1976. Managing Editor, University of California at Davis Law Review, 1975-1976. Law Clerk, U.S. District Court, District of Alaska, Ninth Circuit 1976-78.
	Admitted to Practice: California 1976; Alaska 1977; Hawai`i 1980; U.S. Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit 1981.

Professional/Civic Activities: Former President of the Japan-Hawai`i Lawyers Associate; Former President of the Board of Directors of Parents and Children Together; Board of Directors of Parents and Children Together; Member of the Board of Directors of Salvation Army; Member of the Board of Directors of Historic Hawai`i.

Mr. Shibata has over 25 years of experience in business and real estate matters. Mr. Shibata has been responsible for numerous real estate transactions, including the purchase of hotels, shopping centers, buildings and land. Mr. Shibata's practice has involved drafting complex contracts and other real property documents and assisting in real estate developments, including changes in land use classifications, development plans and zoning, subdivisions and consolidations, the development of covenants, conditions and restrictions and the drafting of retail and industrial leases. Mr. Shibata has also represented numerous banks in foreclosures and in drafting loan documents. Representative clients have included and include Inter-Continental Hotels, Marriott Corporation, Halekulani Corporation, The Bascom Group, LLC, Fremont Investment & Loan, Mitsui Fudosan, Hyatt Corporation, W.H. Smith, Leucadia, Tesoro Hawai`i Corporation and Wallace Theaters. Examples of typical large, complex land transactions are the purchase of over 80,000 acres of former Castle & Cooke land in North Kohala, the purchase of a retail store chain and the purchase of a theater chain. Examples of recent transactions are the directing of the litigation with respect to the Maui Marriott Hotel and the purchase of the Maui Marriott Hotel, the closing of the purchases of the Ritz-Carlton Kapalua Hotel, the Grand Wailea Hotel, the Hawaiian Regent Hotel, the Aston Waikiki Beach Hotel and the Kauai Coconut Beach Hotel, the purchase of timeshare lots at Koolina for the Marriott Corporation, the purchase of the Lahaina Cannery Mall, the purchase and financing of Hale Kapuna and Leeward Integrated health care facilities, the purchase of the Sunset Villas Apartments, and the financing of the purchase of the Ilikai Hotel and the Grand Wailea Hotel.

Mr. Shibata attended Yale University and Stanford University and graduated from Stanford University in 1971 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in religion and philosophy. In 1973, Mr. Shibata graduated from the University of California Los Angeles with a Masters Degree in Business Administration with concentrations in finance and marketing. Mr. Shibata then attended the University of California Davis School of Law, where he was a member of law review and the managing and an associate editor of the law review, and graduated with the degree of Juris Doctor in 1976. After graduation Mr. Shibata clerked for the Honorable Raymond E. Plummer of the United States District Court of the District of Alaska from 1976 to 1977 and the Honorable James M. Fitzgerald of the United States District Court of the District of Alaska from 1977 to 1978. Mr. Shibata practiced for approximately three years with a litigation firm in Anchorage, Alaska. Mr. Shibata moved to Hawai`i in 1980 and joined Rush Moore LLP A Limited Liability Law Partnership. Mr. Shibata is the managing partner of Rush Moore LLP A Limited Liability Law Partnership.

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