Services and Credentials

Motschenbacher & Blattner llp provides experienced legal counsel to Pacific Northwest privately held companies and their owners, and represents out-of-state corporations with interests in the states of Oregon and Washington. The business, financial, accounting, and construction backgrounds of our lawyers provide uniquely integrated legal and business counsel to our clients' challenges and opportunities.

Partners Anthony J. Motschenbacher and Christopher C.S. Blattner have more than 45 years of combined legal experience, including practice with two of the region's largest law firms. Establishing their own firm has given them the opportunity to deliver personalized, high caliber legal counsel without the fee constraints and multiple client conflicts associated with larger firms.

The firm's practice includes business formations and dissolutions, contracts, shareholder disputes, business succession planning, mergers and acquisitions, private placements of securities, finance, tax, intellectual property, real estate, employment issues, estate planning, debtor-creditor and bankruptcy, civil litigation and related services. The firm serves the legal needs of a multiplicity of businesses, including privately held corporations, family businesses, real estate developers, construction companies, oil companies, high technology firms, artistic and creative businesses, designers, service providers, non-profit organizations, financial institutions and US representation of foreign companies.

Tony Motschenbacher earned his undergraduate degree (a double major in finance and management) from the University of Oregon, ranking in the top 10% of his class. He ranked third in his 1990 graduating class at Willamette University College of Law (magna cum laude), serving as associate editor of the Willamette Law Review and on the Moot Court Board. Tony heads the firmā€™s business and construction departments. Prior to forming the firm in 1996, Tony was associated with Preston Gates & Ellis' Portland office. Prior to joining Preston, Tony was in private practice at Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt. Tony is the past vice-chair of the Oregon State Bar Board of Bar Examiners. Outside of work, Tony is very active with youth sports. He has been a baseball manager for numerous Little League, Babe Ruth and high school baseball teams. He has also been a basketball and baseball coach at Lincoln High School. Tony also served as Trustee with First Christian Church.

Chris Blattner graduated from Willamette University before receiving his law degree from Lewis & Clark Law School. In addition to real estate, commercial litigation and business transactions, Chris heads the firm's litigation and intellectual property departments. He also has substantial experience with scuba liability defense litigation, a legal emphasis that has grown from his personal avocation for the sport. Chris is a longtime member of the board of Complementary Healthcare Plans, Inc., a provider of networks of alternative medicine professionals. Chris is a board member and president of the Riverside Golf and Country Club. He also donates times to local charities and his church.

Nick Henderson earned his undergraduate degree (major in mathematics and minor in business) from the University of Utah and his Juris Doctorate from Lewis & Clark Law School. Nick's practice areas include business and commercial litigation, debtor-creditor law and bankruptcy. Nick assists small businesses with collection issues and bankruptcy litigation, including preference and non-dischargeability matters. Nick's practice also focuses on assisting small businesses and their owners reorganize through Chapters 11 and 13 of the Bankruptcy Code. Prior to joining the firm, Nick was in private practice at Henderson Trauman, PC.

Troy Sexton earned his undergraduate degree (double major in Philosophy and Political Science) from Portland State University and his Juris Doctorate from Lewis & Clark Law School. He was an associate editor of Lewis and Clark's nationally acclaimed law review Environmental Law, and a Business Law Roundtable Scholar. Troyā€™s practice areas include business transactions, litigation, and bankruptcy. Prior to joining the firm, Troy managed a specialty retail business for 7 years.

Alex Trauman earned his undergraduate degree from Oregon State University and his Juris Doctorate from Lewis & Clark Law School. Alex's practice areas include business transactions, business litigation, real estate and employment law. Alex regularly presents seminars on client development and legal marketing. Prior to joining the firm in 2009, Alex was in private practice at Henderson Trauman, PC.

Tina Walker serves as office manager and paralegal.

Motschenbacher & Blattner llp is honored to have received the highest rating attainable (AV) in the Martindale-Hubbell Law Directory and to be among those attorneys designated as Super Lawyers and Rising Stars in the Oregon 2011 Super Lawyers Magazine.