Michael Staub Bio

Michael K. Staub began his legal career working in the areas of construction defect and environmental coverage litigation in Los Angeles and Century City. In 1997, he accepted a position with a well-respected regional firm in Spokane, Washington to help expand their business, banking and healthcare practice. Mr. Staub was made partner of the firm in 2002 and continued to develop a solid business and banking client base, representing a wide variety of institutional and private equity lenders. His practice included negotiating and documenting complex private equity and institutional financing, corporate start-ups, mergers and acquisitions, real estate transactions and development projects, as well as bank and business liability defense litigation. Mr. Staub’s extensive bank and corporate experience made him a perfect fit for Stuart | Moore | Staub. He became a partner of the firm in 2017. Mr. Staub is actively licensed in California, Washington, and Idaho and able to assist community bank and corporate clients with a broad range of legal needs. Mr. Staub has represented major national corporations and institutional lenders in general corporate matters, mergers and acquisitions, regulatory compliance, securities offerings, loan transactions, loan collateralization issues, secured transactions, loan work-outs, and commercial litigation. He also has significant experience negotiating and litigating complex transactions, representing lenders in litigation and bankruptcy proceedings, as well as pursuing collateral and guarantor recovery on defaulted loan transactions. He routinely counsels community banks on merger transactions, branch transactions, capital raises, stock sales and purchases, stock option plans, and personnel issues.