Daniel Reidy
Founder/Reidy Law Group
Of-Counsel/CMPR
Upon receiving his J.D. from the University of San Francisco, Dan began his legal career at Owen Wickersham & Erickson as an intellectual property attorney. An entrepreneur at heart, in 1990 Dan started his own practice and never looked back.
Dan has represented hundreds of clients in intellectual property litigation and transactions. One notable case was a copyright infringement class action case on behalf of freelance authors against a major magazine publisher’s subsidiary for selling thousands of authors’ individual articles without their permission. After several years of hard-fought litigation and favorable rulings at both the Federal District Court and Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, Dan negotiated a multi-million dollar settlement that resulted in significant payments to hundreds of infringed authors and ushered in a new era of how publishers could use authors’ works.
Before relocating his practice from San Francisco to St. Helena in 2008, Dan’s intellectual property practice focused on the acquisition and licensing of highly valuable exclusive creative content for Fortune 100 clients from such artists as The Rolling Stones, Elton John, Prince, Taylor Swift, U2, The Police and many more. As a result of these valuable content acquisitions, client’s sales of content branded products exceeded $100 million.
Since 2008, Dan has represented many of Napa and Sonoma’s finest wine brands and primarily focuses on wine industry sales and acquisitions, the development and protection of clients’ intellectual property, and general wine industry business transactions. For a list of representative winery sales and acquisitions, please click here “News”.
Carle Mackie power & ross, LLP (“CMPR”)
In early 2023, after a decade of working together as co-counsel on several high-profile wine industry transactions, Reidy Law Group entered into an “of counsel” relationship with the Santa Rosa based law firm Carle Mackie Power & Ross LLP (“CMPR”). Under this arrangement, Reidy Law Group continues to operate at the St. Helena Office under the CMPR umbrella giving it full access to the firm’s considerable resources which includes nearly 40 attorneys and supporting staff. The combined firms now offer legal services in expanded areas of law most often needed by its winery clients, including alcohol compliance, land use, employment/labor law, and tax matters. CMPR also provides extra horsepower in litigation and large complex winery sales and acquisitions transactions.
The arrangement resulted in the merger of the CMPR and Reidy Law Group intellectual property practices creating one of the country’s largest wine and alcohol beverage trademark portfolios. With its trademark attorneys having a combined experience of over 50 years and the support of three intellectual property paralegals, CMPR/RLG is a formidable force in the world of trademark law.
For more information about CMPR, please visit its website or contact Dan Reidy at dan@reidylawgroup.com or (707) 963-3030.
tREVOR m. cODINGTON
Partner/CMPR
Prior to joining Reidy Law Group in 2019, Trevor worked at Cox, Castle & Nicholson and Abbey, Weitzenberg, Warren & Emery. He earned his JD from the UCLA School of Law in 2006. Trevor brings a wealth of experience and expertise in real estate, corporate, and finance law. Trevor now serves in a dual capacity as a partner at CMPR while continuing to handle transactions for an impressive portfolio of Reidy Law Group clients.
Trevor’s real estate practice includes representation of owners, developers, and investors in complex real estate transactions from acquisition and development to management and disposition. He has drafted and negotiated purchase and sale, option, construction, and hotel management, agreements, as well as commercial and vineyard leases, and other real estate agreements.
Trevor’s corporate practice includes advising owners and senior-level executives with respect to formation, governance, day-to-day operational and dissolution matters, and commercial contracts. He has successfully negotiated numerous asset purchase and sale transactions, stock/membership interest purchases and sale transactions, joint ventures, and leases, and licensing agreements.
Trevor also has significant experience in finance matters. He has negotiated a wide array of loan transactions including permanent, bridge, and mezzanine financing, A/B structured loan transactions, construction loans, participation agreements, and inter-creditor agreements. Trevor has represented multiple community banks and institutional lenders throughout his career.
When not busy representing clients, Trevor stays busy raising his three daughters (Avery, Jayden, and Presley) and attending all of their dance and sporting events. He also finds occasion to sneak away to attend sporting events, work out, and travel.