Donald Tamaki

Minami, Lew & Tamaki LLP
360 Post Street, 8th Floor
San Francisco, CA 94108-4903

Telephone: (415) 788-2705
Facsimile: (415) 398-3887

E-mail Address: dtamaki@MinamiTamaki.com 

Areas of Practice:
Real Estate
Commercial Transactions-Domestic and
International
Corporate
General Business
Intellectual Property Licensing
Non-Profit Corporations
Mergers and Acquisitions

Don Tamaki, a Partner with Minami Tamaki LLP, was born and raised in Oakland, California. His practice focuses on Corporate and Business, non-profit corporations, Contracts and Entertainment Law. He was admitted to the California Bar in 1976 and to the United States District Court for the Northern District of California and the United States Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. He has received and "AV" rating, the highest grade for legal competence and ethics by the Martindale-Hubble Law Directory, a nationwide compilation of attorneys.

Mr .Tamaki's specialties include the preparation and negotiation of agreements involving technology research and development, formation of joint-venture companies, manufacture and distribution, and technology licensing for both large multi-national corporations as well as emerging companies. For example, he represented Toppan Forms Co. Ltd. from its fledgling development of signature capture technology, to its subsequent manufacture of the first hand-held computers used by United Parcel Services drivers.

He also represents start-up technology companies in their formation, investor financing, and acquisition, as well as in their day-to-day operations. His governmental practice includes serving as co-bond counsel in representing the City and County of San Francisco in its public financing, and his on-going representation of the Consulate General of Japan. He has also provided representation to the Alameda County Medical Center, and the San Francisco Airport.