Nancy Fong

Background

About Nancy Fong

Nancy S. Fong is Litigation Partner at Allen Matkins' Los Angeles office. She is a member of the business and real estate disputes practice group. Her litigation practice is primarily focused on construction, commercial, real estate, and financial services litigation. Nancy commonly represents contractors, hotel owners, commercial landlords and developers in a variety of breach of contract, tort, construction defect, prevailing wage and title disputes, as well as national lenders and servicers in complex consumer finance litigation. Nancy recently successfully provided legal counsel to a hotel owner/landlord in a groundbreaking action involving rent control and the Ellis Act. She successfully argued before the Court of Appeal that the Ellis Act cannot be waived via a settlement agreement which is not supported by direct financial contribution.(Embassy, LLC v. City of Santa Monica Rent Control Board, et al.(June 14, 2010) 185 Cal. App. 4th 771).Nancy has chaired multiple trials and arbitrations, and has argued before both federal and state courts in trial and post-trial phases.Nancy has served on the firm's Recruiting Committee and Diversity Committee. Nancy is also actively involved in the community and runs a local non-profit organization called Kids Reading to Succeed, which provides one-on-one tutoring to underprivileged youth in the Pasadena area.