Laine Mervis

Shareholder

Laine is a Shareholder at Eanet, PC, and represents creative entrepreneurs, start-ups, businesses, investors and lenders. Laine’s integrative approach to law and business provides clients with counsel that is smart, sophisticated, and collaborative. Laine’s clients span industries including real estate, design, artists, finance, green energy, entertainment, and technology.

On the litigation side, Laine has over a decade of experience obtaining favorable outcomes for clients in and out-of-court. Recently, Laine second-chaired a three week jury trial involving a business shareholder dispute and resulting in a six-figure verdict for the client which was upheld on appeal. Also recently, Laine obtained a six-figure judgment on behalf of an investment company on summary judgment.

On the transactional side, Laine works closely with clients to advance their unique brand and to achieve success as they define it. Laine is a consigliere to clients. He provides transactional services in a range of issues, including secured lending, asset and business acquisitions and sales, and solvency matters and restructuring.

Previously, Laine practiced bankruptcy law at the Los Angeles offices of two nationally-renowned law firms. Laine has been named a “Rising Star” in Super Lawyers Magazine (So. Cal. edition). Laine has contributed to writings presented to the American Law Institute–American Bar Association, the American Bankruptcy Institute, and the Financial Lawyer’s Conference, and appearing in the law school textbook Business Reorganization in Bankruptcy (3d ed. 2006).

Laine graduated from the UCLA School of Law in 2002, where he served as Executive Editor of the UCLA Law Review. In 1999, Laine graduated from UC Davis with a B.A. in Classics and Political Science with honors. In 2014, Laine received a M.A. in Spiritual Psychology from the University of Santa Monica. Laine has also worked as a law extern at the U.S. Department of State and the U.S. House of Representatives, Judiciary Committee, and as a Finance Director to U.S. House campaigns.

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Laine Mervis
- Professional & Community Affiliations
  American Bar Association
  Los Angeles County Bar Association
  Past President, Pasadena Community Toastmasters, Toastmasters International
  Graduate, Consciousness, Health & Healing Certificate Program, University of Santa Monica
- News & Publications
  To Lease or License, That Is the Question, hg.org (Jan 2023)
  Desperately Seeking Lease Purchase Options in Today's Housing Market, hg.org (Dec 2022)
  California Supreme Court Rules on Treble Damages and Attorneys' Fees Available in Certain Fraud Cases Under Penal Code § 496, hg.org (Aug 2022)
  Adequate Evidentiary Showing Needed to Bring Nonsignatory into Arbitration, hg.org (January 2021)
  Post-Coronavirus, Here’s How Commercial Tenants Can Leverage Their Lease in New Ways, hg.org (October 2020)
  What Covid-19 Means for Real Estate Agents and Brokers, hg.org (May 2020)
  The Force (Majeure) Awakens, hg.org (May 2020)
  Commercial Leases Go Back to Work: Landlord and Tenant Considerations for Restructuring Leases, hg.org (May 2020)
  Case Alert: California Court of Appeals Clarifies Deadline to Bring Anti-SLAPP Motion to Amended Complaint, hg.org (May 2020)
  Update: Summary of Los Angeles and California Emergency Actions for COVID-19 Impacting Landlords and Tenants, hg.org (April 2020)
  Shareholder Litigation to Obtain Corporate “Books and Records” to Value Company and Investigate Wrongdoing, hg.org (August 2019)
  Opinion in Red & White Distribution V. Osteroid Enterprises Gives Settling Litigants The Blues in California, hg.org (August 2019)
  If You're An Investor In A Start Up And You Lose All Your Money, What Are Your Options? hg.org (August 2019)
  New Ruling For Religious Employers Limits "Ministerial Exception" to Wage and Hour Claims, hg.org (March 2019)
  Broker Beware: Court of Appeal Weighs In On Real Estate Broker Duty to Inspect and Disclose, hg.org (February 2019)
  A Strategic Approach To Purchasing Private Money Loans, hg.org (January 2019)
  Court of Appeal Says Complete And Final Agreement Is Sort Of Complete, Kind Of Final, Maybe Neither (January 2018)
  California: Directors of Insolvent Corporations Owe "Limited" Fiduciary Duties To Creditors (March 2017)
  Written Contracts in California Sometimes Aren’t Worth the Paper They’re Written On, hg.org (2013)
- Education
  UCLA School of Law, J.D.
  UC Davis, with honors
- Admissions
  California Bar
  U.S. Bankruptcy Court, Central District of California