Commercial disputes put revenue, key relationships, and management attention at risk. Henderson Parks litigates them with those stakes in full view.
The firm handles the full range of disputes between businesses: contract claims, fraud, breach of fiduciary duty, trade secret misappropriation, restrictive covenants, partnership and shareholder disputes, antitrust, consumer fraud and unfair trade practices, and trademark and copyright infringement.
Many commercial cases are won or lost at the injunction stage, in evidentiary hearings that resemble compressed trials. Henderson Parks has deep experience on both sides of emergency relief. Because the firm tries cases to verdict every year, opposing parties price that risk into every settlement discussion. Clients obtain better resolutions, sooner, because the alternative to settling with Henderson Parks is trying a case against it.
Experience:1
- Won a $29 million summary judgment, plus attorneys’ fees, in complex breach of contract, warranty, and engineering-design litigation involving recalled battery backup units.
- Won a verdict awarding title to the last large piece of open land in the Chicago metropolitan area, plus $13.8 million in damages, after prosecuting the action through multiple interlocutory appeals and a bankruptcy stay.
- Served as national trial counsel in restrictive covenant litigation across the country for a leading insurance brokerage.
- Won a $20 million arbitration award for a national healthcare company in a services dispute.
- Achieved a favorable plaintiff’s result for a technology manufacturer against a patent-licensing entity.
- Obtained preliminary injunctive relief for a distributor against former employees who took trade secrets, then negotiated a settlement that stopped further customer losses.
- Successfully represented a non-profit trademark owner against a national foundation using a confusingly similar name; based on the strength of the case, the infringer rebranded its entire initiative.
- Successfully defended a business owner against common-law fraud claims.
- Successfully prosecuted a defamation action for a professional association, obtaining a public retraction of all allegations.
- Prevailed at trial on a breach of contract claim for an aircraft owner against a service provider that overcharged and failed to complete repairs.
- Secured the return of, and a full refund for, defective medical equipment on behalf of a leading academic health care system.
- Helped secure a $200 million jury verdict in a breach of contract based insurance coverage dispute.
1 The illustrative matters listed include work performed by our lawyers at prior firms.