Mr. Antracoli is a partner in Rutan & Tucker’s Trial Section and Construction Law Group, where he represents public and private owners, prime contractors, subcontractors, lessors, tenants and others in the construction and real estate industry in both litigation and transactional matters. He has over 20 years of litigation experience which includes substantial experience in the trial of complex business litigation matters, as well as the representation of clients in both federal and state court, administrative proceedings, arbitration and mediation. With a litigator’s eye and experience, and on behalf of owners, developers, prime contractors and subcontractors, Mr. Antracoli regularly drafts and negotiates those agreements utilized on construction projects, including prime contracts, subcontract agreements, purchase orders, partnering and joint venture agreements.

REPRESENTATIVE CASES OR MATTERS

• Prosecution of prime contractor’s delay and labor productivity claims against municipality resulting from differing site conditions and misrepresentations in contract documents involving project for the installation of underground conduit for traffic communications.
• Prosecution of construction contract termination case on behalf of prime contractor against subcontractor involving three radio communication projects, and defense of cross-complaint by subcontractor.
• Prosecution of prime contractor’s delay and impact claims against owner and design professionals arising from construction of senior residential and skilled nursing facility.
• Prosecution of extra work and contract claims by a subcontractor arising from international airport construction project in Northern California.
• Defense of owner/developer against claims of prime contractor for delay and time extensions on two low-cost residential housing projects.
• Defense of owner/public entity against lost profit claims of prime contractor arising from request for proposal process involving design and construction of electrical power facility.
• Defense of owner/lessor from tenant’s fraud claims pertaining to environmental contamination of industrial property.
• Prosecution of owner/lessor’s claims against tenant resulting from abandonment of leased office building.
• Prosecution of insurance coverage and bad-faith action on behalf of general contractor arising from claims made regarding allegedly defective repairs made to multi-unit housing complex.
• Prosecution of owner/developer’s fraud claims against prime contractor arising from applications for payment and prime contractor’s subsequent insolvency.
• Defense of lender against $11 million in mechanic’s lien and stop notice claims arising from mixed-use construction project.
• Prosecution of lender’s fraud and constructive trust claims against mortgage broker and its bankruptcy estate.
• Representation of owner/developer in drafting and negotiation of prime construction contract for sixteen (16) story downtown office building.
• Representation of owner/developer in drafting and negotiation of prime construction contract for initial phases of 800,000 square foot corporate campus.

PUBLICATIONS

• Co-author, Obtaining Insurance Coverage for Construction Defect Claims, California Real Property Journal, Volume 16, No. 4 (1998)
• Author, California’s Collateral Source Rule and Plaintiff’s Receipt of Uninsured Motorist Benefits, 37 Hastings Law Journal 667 (1986)

PRACTICE GROUPS

• Business Litigation
• Construction Law

EDUCATION

• University of California, Hastings College of the Law, J.D. 1987 cum laude, Order of the Coif
• University of California, Davis, B.A. 1983

MEMBERSHIPS/ADMISSIONS

• Santa Clara County Bar Association
• American Bar Association – Forum on the Construction Industry
• Associated General Contractors of California – Legal Advisory Committee
• State Bar of California

COMMUNITY/AFFILIATIONS

• Instructor, Fundamentals of Construction Law, University of California, Berkeley Extension
• Judge Pro Tem, Santa Clara County Superior Court

AWARDS & HONORS

• Northern California “Super Lawyer” 2005, 2006, 2009, 2010
• Northern California “Super Lawyer” Corporate Counsel Edition, 2010