Kurt A. Dreibholz

    Senior Associate
    Los Angeles
    Direct: 213.417.5347
    Main: 213.891.9100

    Practice Focus:

    • Main Biography
    • Aviation & Marine Law
    • Commercial Litigation
    • Employment Law
    • Professional Liability
    • Real Estate Law

    The primary focuses of Mr. Dreibholz’s practice are business and corporate law, real estate law and civil litigation.

    Mr. Dreibholz joined Morris Polich & Purdy LLP in 2002 after departing a competing Los Angeles/Century City law firm, where he focused on business litigation matters.

    Mr. Dreibholz’s experience includes prosecuting and defending UCC claims, claims of fraud, breach of contract, breach of warranty, breach of fiduciary duty, alter ego and violation of Business & Professions Code section 17200. He has represented clients in disputes involving bank depositors, real estate transactions, commercial leases and the dissolution and winding up of limited partnerships and limited liability companies.

    More recently, Mr. Dreibholz successfully represented a minority member CEO in an arbitrated claim for breach of employment agreement, LLC agreement and fiduciary duty that involved minority member oppression, squeeze-outs, buy-out rights and the valuation of minority interests. He represented a partner in the auction of a general partnership’s assets. He also pursued a limited partner’s demand for an accounting and dissolution and winding up of a limited partnership to a favorable settlement.

    Mr. Dreibholz has also represented air carriers, motor carriers, shippers and leasing companies in cases involving mass air disasters, leasing and financing, lessor and lender liability and the application of the Warsaw and Montreal Conventions, the Death on the High Seas Act, the Carriage of Goods by Sea Act and the Carmack Amendment.

    Education

    • J.D., Albany Law School of Union University, 1996
    • Université de Paris, Sorbonne, 1987
    • B.A., Boston College, 1985

    Court Admissions

    • United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
    • United States District Court for the Central, Eastern, Northern and Southern Districts of California

    Bar Admissions

    • California, 2001

    Professional Memberships and Activities

    • State Bar of California
    • Los Angeles County Bar Association, Business & Corporate Law Section
    • American Bar Association, Business Law and Litigation Sections
    • Century City Bar Association

    Distinctions

    • California Super Lawyer Rising Star, 2009