KIMBERLY GAMBRALL
Lincoln,CA
Overview
20
20
years of professional experience
Work History
SENIOR ASSOCIATE
GVM LAW LLP
02.2023 - Current
- Represent and advise high net worth individuals in business and real estate transactional matters, including lease arrangements, entity formations, and strategic planning for businesses and assets.
- Advise agribusiness and closely held business clients in complex business and real estate transactions, including entity formation, mergers and acquisitions, and financing arrangements, including coordination with third parties and opposing counsel.
- Facilitate due diligence investigations, title review, and land use matters for farmland and commercial properties.
- Serve as outside general counsel for wineries, agribusinesses, family owned or closely held businesses, offering practical legal advice aligned with operational goals.
- Assist in business transactions, including entity formation, stock and asset sales, reorganization, and dissolution, including S-Corporations, C-Corporations, and limited liability companies.
- Draft, review and negotiate a wide range of contracts such as purchase agreements, operating agreements, commercial and agricultural leases, lease amendments, easements, license agreements, asset purchase agreements, stock purchase agreements, corporate governing documents.
SENIOR ASSOCIATE
DOWNEY BRAND LLP
07.2021 - 01.2023
- Represented and advised developers, individuals, and businesses in commercial real estate transactional matters, including acquisition and disposition of retail shopping centers, office buildings, single tenant investment properties, industrial buildings and agricultural land, review of title documents, due diligence matters, land use and development, entity formations, and other ancillary matters.
- Represented and advised landlords and tenants in connection with the negotiation, preparation and amendment of retail, office, industrial and agricultural leases.
- Assisted in business transactions, including entity formation, stock and asset sales, reorganization, and dissolution, including S-Corporations, C-Corporations, and limited liability companies.
- Contract drafting, review and negotiation, including purchase and sale agreements, commercial and agricultural leases, lease amendments, easements, license agreements, asset purchase agreements, stock purchase agreements, corporate governing documents, legal opinions.
ASSOCIATE ATTORNEY
TRAINOR FAIRBROOK, A Professional Corporation
11.2019 - 06.2021
- Represented and advised developers, landlords and businesses in commercial real estate transactional matters, including purchases and sales, leases, title documents, due diligence matters, land use and development, entity formations, and other ancillary matters.
- Assist in business transactions, including entity formation, stock and asset sales, reorganization, and dissolution, including S-Corporations, C-Corporations, and limited liability companies.
- Contract drafting, review and negotiation, including purchase and sale agreements, commercial leases, lease amendments, employment agreements, stock purchase agreements, corporate governing documents.
ASSOCIATE ATTORNEY
SMITH, McDOWELL & POWELL, A Law Corporation
12.2016 - 10.2019
- Represented businesses in transactional matters, including corporate, real estate, construction, and other business transactions.
- Entity formation, reorganization, and dissolution, including S-Corporations, C-Corporations, limited liability companies, partnerships, professional corporations and joint ventures.
- Contract drafting, review and negotiation, including settlement agreements, custom business contracts, employment agreements, buy sell agreements, securities, lease agreements, purchase and sale agreements.
- Advised clients on day-to-day business needs.
- Assisted in general civil litigation matters including business, partner and owner disputes, construction litigation, breach of contract, fraud, breach of fiduciary duty and related disputes by and through drafting complaints, motions, and briefs, preparing discovery requests and responses, and attending court appearances, hearings and mediations.
LAW CLERK
SMITH, McDOWELL & POWELL, A Law Corporation
03.2015 - 11.2016
- Represented businesses in Sacramento and surrounding area in litigation and transactions.
- Drafted various contracts, formed corporations, organized LLCs, prepared corporate documents, operating agreements.
- Drafted letters to clients and opposing counsel.
- Created estate plans, including trusts, wills, powers of attorney, and health directives.
LAW STUDENT AIDE
McGEORGE COMMUNITY LEGAL SERVICES
08.2014 - 12.2014
- Assisted indigent clients for the Elder and Health Law Clinic.
- Interviewed and counseled clients for issues concerning estate planning, health care planning, Medicare and Medi-Cal, and elder abuse.
- Drafted wills, trusts, powers of attorney, deeds, and client correspondence.
- Worked in a team Medicare appeal: researched Medicare coverage and its exceptions, drafted subpoenas, submitted a pre-hearing brief, conducted client interviews, appeared before an administrative law judge for a hearing, and won the appeal for out-of-plan coverage for client.
LAW CLERK
GIANELLI & ASSOCIATES
01.2013 - 08.2013
- Researched and wrote article regarding estate planning tax exemption allowances for the firm’s webpage.
- Updated estate planning language to accommodate modern developments in the law for the estate planning documents’ templates in the firm’s database.
- Researched issues regarding complex estate and business files and advised supervising attorneys and clients.
- Drafted agricultural leases and deeds to be recorded.
- Researched and wrote articles summarizing recent Supreme Court decisions and advising how those decisions potentially affected the firm’s clientele.
- Filed court documents and drafted deeds to be recorded.
MANAGER
BV FARMS, LLC
01.2005 - 01.2012
- Managed multi-ranch peach operation.
- Performed weigh-master duties, drafted documents for tenants of ranch real estate properties, maintained employee records, filled inventory paperwork, trained new employees, and operated various farming equipment.
Education
Juris Doctor - Business Concentration
University of the Pacific McGeorge School of Law
Sacramento, CA05.2016
Bachelor of Arts - Political Science
Trinity Christian College
Palos Heights, IL12.2012
Hobbies and Interests
Spending time with my husband and two girls, getting outside when possible, reading, traveling
Timeline
SENIOR ASSOCIATE
GVM LAW LLP
02.2023 - Current
SENIOR ASSOCIATE
DOWNEY BRAND LLP
07.2021 - 01.2023
ASSOCIATE ATTORNEY
TRAINOR FAIRBROOK, A Professional Corporation
11.2019 - 06.2021
ASSOCIATE ATTORNEY
SMITH, McDOWELL & POWELL, A Law Corporation
12.2016 - 10.2019
LAW CLERK
SMITH, McDOWELL & POWELL, A Law Corporation
03.2015 - 11.2016
LAW STUDENT AIDE
McGEORGE COMMUNITY LEGAL SERVICES
08.2014 - 12.2014
LAW CLERK
GIANELLI & ASSOCIATES
01.2013 - 08.2013
MANAGER
BV FARMS, LLC
01.2005 - 01.2012
Bachelor of Arts - Political Science
Trinity Christian College
Juris Doctor - Business Concentration
University of the Pacific McGeorge School of Law
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