Walter Featherly, managing partner of Patton Boggs’ Anchorage office, helps business entities structure, negotiate and draft clear and enforceable contracts and agreements and comply with applicable laws and regulations to reduce their risk profile and increase profitability. Focusing on Alaska Native- and Native American-owned businesses, Mr. Featherly regularly handles matters of corporate law and governance, securities law, protection of intellectual property, government contracting, employment practices, finance and real estate. Mr. Featherly also helps minority-owned businesses navigate the regulations governing admission to the Small Business Administration’s 8(a) Business Development and HUBZone programs, particularly those related to subcontracting and teaming opportunities. With substantial experience handling municipal, state and federal legal matters, Mr. Featherly advises public and private entities on how best to avoid risks in public finance transactions and prevent complex legal entanglements.

Mr. Featherly’s business practice also includes bankruptcy and litigation. He has tried numerous cases in Alaska and federal courts in the areas of commercial transactions, real estate, construction, antitrust, bankruptcy, products liability, personal injury and eminent domain, and he has argued appeals to the Alaska Supreme Court and the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals.

Representative Matters:

• Kenneth Battley, Bankruptcy Trustee v. KPMG: Successful representation of bankruptcy trustee of public company in obtaining a $5 million settlement of a professional liability claim against a "Big Five" accounting firm.