Real Estate
Business
Intellectual Property
Chloey assists clients with a range of real estate, commercial and intellectual property matters. Her work includes purchase and sale transactions, commercial leasing, land use and entitlements, and contract drafting, as well as the protection, registration and licensing of intellectual property. She brings a business-minded perspective to her practice, grounded in her undergraduate training in business administration, and works to understand each client's goals in order to deliver practical, solution-oriented counsel.
Chloey's legal work reflects her interest in where real estate, intellectual property and Indigenous cultural knowledge meet. Her article, Claiming Hula: An Analysis of Western and Indigenous Perspectives of Intellectual Property Rights, examines Western and Indigenous approaches to protecting Native Hawaiian cultural and traditional knowledge. It was published in Volume 47, Issue 3 of the Asian-Pacific Law & Policy Journal.
Chloey graduated magna cum laude from the William S. Richardson School of Law, where she served as Staff Writer and Media Editor for the University of Hawaiʻi Law Review. She was a teaching assistant for Contracts, Legal Writing and Native Hawaiian Rights, and a research assistant to Assistant Professor of Law Derek Kauanoe. She received CALI Excellence for the Future Awards in several courses that relate directly to her practice, including Land Use, Intellectual Property, Contract Drafting, and Legislation and Statutory Interpretation, as well as Criminal Procedure.
Born and raised in Hawaiʻi, and Native Hawaiian, Chloey has a deep personal connection to the legal issues that shape land use, housing and development in the islands. She is particularly drawn to work that supports thoughtful, well-planned development while remaining attentive to the needs and interests of Hawaiʻi's communities.