Background
Mr. Masters is a litigation partner and founding chair of the Risk
Management and Insurance Coverage Practice Group at the preeminent real estate
and construction law firm Cox, Castle & Nicholson LLP. He serves owners,
contractors, investors, developers, and homebuilders.
Mr. Masters prosecutes complex insurance coverage claims and litigation
against insurers in California and nationally. In his national transactional
practice, he provides strategic risk management legal counsel on complex
contractual risk transfer issues such as indemnification, insurance, and
limitation of liability provisions; negotiation, structuring, and
implementation of liability and property insurance programs; operational risk
management; and planning and execution of project exit strategies, including
insurance for post-dissolution completed operations risks.
He also advises
clients on risk allocation issues in joint venture agreements, limited
liability company operating agreements, leases, management agreements, and
residential and commercial asset acquisitions and dispositions; design and
construction quality assurance programs; and managing and insuring risk in
mixed-use projects, condominium conversions, shelf condominiums, adaptive reuse
projects, repositioning of distressed real estate assets, and commercial and
residential leasing and sales.
Awards
Mr. Masters was the 2000 recipient of the IRMI
Words
of Wisdom (WOW) Award, presented at the 20th IRMI Construction Risk
Conference.