Family Law

• Guardianship
  The most cost effective way to avoid probate and to ensure that your beneficiaries receive their inheritance with a minimum of expense, delay and hassle. These trusts can help avoid having a guardianship placed over your assets should you become incapacitated.

Criminal Law

• Wrongful Death
  We emphasize service dedicated to getting good results for the client, with experience in representing, advising and obtaining recoveries for clients in numerous cases in: * Personal Injuries * Wrongful Death * Motor Vehicle Accidents * Defective Products * Roadway...
• Fraud
  If you are the victim of investment fraud or stockbroker misconduct, the Securities Fraud lawyers at CIPN Iwamura Pulice & Nervell are here to help you. Securities fraud and broker misconduct may take many forms. You may have a claim to recover your losses with the help of a securities fraud attorney if...

Business and Corporate Law

• Corporate Law
  The firm regularly advises public and private businesses with respect to corporate governance, acquisitions, mergers, and reorganizations. Our Lawyers are regularly involved in corporate finance representation, private equity and debt financing, secured financing, workouts and related matters.
• Mergers and Acquisitions
  We assist with mergers and acquisitions, financing transactions for retailers, licensing and retail agreements, land use, zoning and permitting, site development, Section 1031 exchanges, retail leasing and subleasing, and landlord disputes. Our litigation team offers representation regarding franchise litigation, alternative dispute resolution, and international franchising.
• Business Formation
• Business Disputes
  We provide consumer products companies with the guidance and advice on a broad spectrum of issues from mergers and acquisitions, antitrust, disputes, tax, financing, and business disputes.
• Business Transactions
  Since the inception of the firm, a significant component of our practice has involved tax planning for businesses and business transactions and high net-worth individuals. The firm is also regularly involved in representation of taxpayers in tax controversies with the Internal Revenue Service and the Department of Taxation of the State of Hawaii. The firm has provided tax counsel in most of the major business bankruptcies and many of the loan workouts in Hawaii over the past 40+ years.
• Limited Liability Companies
  Clay Iwamura Pulice & Nervell’s Business & Corporate group has extensive experience in structuring business relationships, including corporate formation, partnerships and limited liability companies. The firm regularly advises public and private...
• Construction Contracts
• Antitrust

Property Law

• Real Estate Litigation
  We represent buyers, sellers, developers, and lenders in a wide variety of real estate matters, including purchases and sales, financing transactions, and development projects. Our clients include major agricultural companies, purchasers and sellers of hotel, resort, and commercial properties, long-term owners of Hawaii real estate, and timeshare operators, as well as developers. We maintain close working relationships with planning and regulatory officials of the U.S. Government, State of Hawaii, City and County of Honolulu, and County of Maui, which facilitate our clients obtaining planning, permitting, and other regulatory approvals. We also work closely with the major escrow and title companies in the state to provide smooth and expeditious closings of transactions.
• Premises Liability
• Construction Litigation
  The CIPN Iwamura Pulice & Nervell Construction Law Team provides a combined 90+ years of construction law experience. Our construction attorneys have worked with contractors, subcontractors, owners, architects, suppliers and sureties. We work with clients regarding commercial, residential, and federal/state/county government construction matters in every facet of construction law from licensing to project closeout and payment.
• Real Estate Transactions
  As a member of Pacific Lawyers, a consortium of law firms across the Pacific, we have established relationships that provide additional global resources to help us advise companies on cross-border deals. We have assisted manufacturing and industrial companies with litigation needs in areas such as product liability, construction. We have been lead attorneys for manufacturing and industrial clients in all aspects of commercial real estate transactions, including acquisition, development, financing and management.
• Land Use and Zoning
  On the development side, the firm advises clients in all aspects of condominium development, including land acquisition and financing; zoning and land use; joint ventures with debt and/or equity partners; contracts with architects, contractors and property managers; preparation of governing documents including public reports, declarations, by-laws, house rules and sale of units.
• Condominium Law
  Based on our knowledge and experience in condominium law and the drafting of the governing documents, we also represent condominium associations in all aspects of the management of condominiums including interpretation, amending and governing documents; litigation and collections of delinquent accounts; education and training for board members; assistance in the smooth running of board meetings, association meetings and voting; and relationships with management companies, contractors, employees and vendors.

Immigration Law

• Work Visas
  CIPN Iwamura Pulice & Nervell offers experienced, knowledgeable, and professional counsel to meet the needs of businesses, foreign investors, and corporations in all facets of establishing U.S. business operations and securing appropriate immigration and nonimmigrant employment visas from the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service and overseas consular posts. Additionally, the firm is able to assist clients with their relative petitions and individuals who may become involved in removal proceedings before the Immigration and Naturalization Service.

Health Law

• Personal Injury
  CIPN Iwamura Pulice & Nervell works with new and existing companies on every phase of the industry, from business formation, real estate and financing issues, risk assessments, food import regulations, day to day operations, management and strategic planning. Our attorneys have experience and offer counseling services to food and agricultural companies with cross-over practice areas including contract, focused litigation, business laws, distribution networks, agricultural laws, personal injury and international trade laws.
• Auto Accidents

Trusts and Estates

• Estate Planning
  We are pleased to offer legal services to our clients in the important area of personal estate planning including the preparation of confidential documents in the following areas...
• Wills
  The big advantage of the RLT is that the Grantor has already named the person (or persons) who will be able to control the assets in the RLT after the death or incapacity of the Grantor. This change of control happens automatically without having to file a petition in a Probate Court. Once the new person, the “Successor Trustee” takes over the RLT, the terms of the Trust become final and cannot be changed, “irrevocable” so the new Trustee must follow the provisions in the RLT that the original Grantor created. This feature is another big advantage of a RLT as the Grantor can describe who shall receive the assets, when and under what circumstances, these recipients are referred to as “Beneficiaries”. The flexibility of a RLT and the fact that it remains private and automatically vests the Successor Trustee with the ability to manage the Trust assets are excellent advantages over the alternatives. The alternatives are either (1) no estate plan at all or (2) a Last Will.
• Trusts
  We have extensive experience assisting clients in the administration of both revocable and irrevocable trusts to assure that the trust provisions are followed effectively and efficiently. Trust administration for an estate can be complex and the advice of experienced counsel can be most helpful in such circumstances.
• Power of Attorney
  Anyone who owns real estate or a business should seriously consider creating a RLT. A Last Will is also useful as a “pour over” to catch any property not already included in the RLT and pass it over to the RLT after death of the Grantor. The Last Will can also name potential guardians of minor children. Another useful estate planning document is a Power of Attorney to name a person that can sign documents for the Grantor while living but perhaps incapacitated or unavailable. In Hawaii many persons have created Advanced Health Care Directive (“AHCD”) to name a person to make significant health care decisions if they are unable to do so as part of the estate planning process.
• Probate
  Probate is the system which the State of Hawaii requires to be followed to ensure that assets held in a person’s name at the time of death are properly accounted for and are transferred to those heirs who are named in a proper Will or are those persons entitled to receive assets under law.

Finance Law

• Bankruptcy
• Foreclosure
  For over 20 years, the Firm has provided comprehensive statewide legal services to the Mortgage Banking Industry, including National Banks, National Servicers and Governmental Sponsored Enterprises. Steven T. Iwamura, Esq. manages a team of attorneys and paralegals, who are very experienced in the foreclosure of residential mortgages and related areas of law. The Firm provides unparalleled customer service and exceeds investor timelines because of the high level of supervision and training provided to the attorneys and staff; who are all located in our Honolulu office.
• Tax Law
  Our firm combines the expertise of attorneys with experience in manufacturing and industrials with the firm’s knowledge of corporate, international, regulatory, litigation and tax matters to provide legal service to clients from the beginning to the end of a project.
• Debt Collection
  CIPN Iwamura Pulice & Nervell’s Collections Law Group consists of both attorneys and paralegals who, over the past twenty-five years, have collected in excess of $30,000,000 for various clients. Our firm represents numerous licensed collection agencies in the State of Hawaii, as well as banks and other business and individual clients in consumer and commercial debt collection.