An international original equipment manufacturer (OEM) client, which also produced aftermarket parts, and an international aftermarket parts provider, which also produced OEM components, wanted to "swap" parts of their businesses so that each could...
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A manufacturing client of Quarles & Brady needed a $350 million revolving credit facility and wanted to issue an additional $150 million in high-yield bonds. Completing the work would require coordinating with attorneys in six states, plus...
One of the Quarles & Brady’s clients invested in a North Carolina luxury residential development deal that was so expansive in its terms and plans that it needed to be executed as a rolling option deal, closing in phases over the course of...
Dave has the unique experience of inventing his own patented consumer product, which he commercialized following his successful prosecution of trademark, copyright, and patent lawsuits concerning his and competing products. His personal experience...
One of Quarles & Brady's large, commercial industrial clients was faced with a massive rate increase from its local utility, amounting to tens of millions of dollars annually. As with most rate cases, public utilities provide evidence of the...
Sometimes, avoiding litigation entails seeing the larger picture and realizing that adversaries may have more in common than they have differences. While representing a municipality in a dispute with its local utility, Quarles & Brady...
Quarles & Brady has ostensibly created the competitive energy market in the State of Illinois—by representing commercial suppliers of energy before they had a market in which to compete with utilities, helping to build the landscape to...
Major energy suppliers count on Quarles & Brady to help them with all aspects of project development. For example, one such client is engaged in developing a $3 billion facility, and we are assisting in all facets of the project, from...
When Quarles & Brady began working with a particular client almost 30 years ago, the client boasted a bit less than $100 million in annual sales, but today it is a $2 billion-plus international manufacturing powerhouse. We helped take the...
One of our financial institution clients was once a mutually held concern, owned by its depositors, but wanted to become a shareholder-owned institution. And it wanted to do that while simultaneously acquiring another publicly held...
In 2008, there was a global economic adjustment of historic proportion. While the Great Recession played havoc across all business sectors, in the legal industry it fundamentally changed tenets of client acquisition and retention that had been...
Quarles & Brady has no interest in quick fixes or short-term gains; the firm is piloting a business that’s built to last. Quarles has been around since 1892 and intends to be going strong in 2092 and beyond. That, of course, necessitates...
It makes sense that a corporate services attorney would have a business mindset, but Fred’s business chops go back a lot further than his J.D. — he grew up in a family-owned business, so he has known the joys and challenges of capitalism and...
Quarles & Brady represented a national banking association in documenting a $25 million commercial line of credit to a Real Estate Investment Trust, which was secured by and had a borrowing base based upon nine commercial parcels of real...
Quarles & Brady represented an agent bank in a club deal involving multiple facilities totaling $100 million in the aggregate to a parent company and its domestic and foreign subsidiaries involving collateral and operations located in the United...
Rick structured and implemented a strategy for significant U.S. tax savings through off-shore ownership of a multinational consumer product company’s intellectual property.
Rick negotiated celebrity brand licenses for a major U.S. home-furnishings manufacturer.
A master-planned community fell on hard times when the economy collapsed, leaving multiple property sites without builders and a residential development with a half-dozen undeveloped lots in it. A Quarles & Brady client bought half of the...
Just as the economy collapsed in 2008, Rick negotiated an exclusive big box retailer agreement for a consumer product manufacturer that significantly expanded its shelf space and grew its business while its competitors' businesses...
Obtaining summary judgment and successfully arguing on appeal the first disability discrimination case in the 11th Circuit involving an HIV-positive health care worker—establishing a pro-employer test for future cases. The plaintiff was...
Quarles & Brady obtained an emergency injunction restricting a former sales manager of a major international consumer products company from using or disclosing confidential information and trade secrets, and compelling production of all computer...
Compelling arbitration and obtaining the summary dismissal, later upheld on appeal, of wrongful discharge claims by a former manager at a national insurance company who was terminated after what he contended was a shoddy investigation into workplace...
Quarles & Brady prevented the imposition of injunctive relief in a case brought by two terminated engineers who claimed that their former employer, an experimental biotechnology company, had falsified data and submissions to regulatory...
Quarles & Brady obtained dismissal of wrongful discharge claims brought against a national nursing home operator by a nurse who claimed that she was terminated after threatening to inform authorities of what she believed to have been the...
On behalf of a leading hardware manufacturer, the Quarles & Brady trademark team negotiated an exclusive sales agreement with a major big box retailer. The deal leveraged our client’s significant brand strength in its product category into...
This was a collective action brought by a former server who worked at a large restaurant. She brought minimum wage and overtime claims against the restaurant and its owners based on allegations that servers were not paid overtime for hours worked...
Quarles & Brady represented multiple information technology clients in two suits involving claims of misappropriation of trade secrets and breach of non-compete agreements. These cases gave Quarles & Brady the opportunity to be one of the...
Quarles & Brady filed trade secret and Lanham Act litigation on behalf of a toy manufacturer after a potential acquisition partner misappropriated designs and confidential information. The Quarles & Brady team negotiated a settlement...
Quarles & Brady helped a large motion control and water management company obtain a preliminary injunction against a former employee working for a competitor for 18 months. Using computer forensics, Quarles & Brady was able to show that the...
Quarles & Brady represented a Fortune 500 manufacturer in trade secret litigation against a former CEO, CFO, and others who started a competing company. Following numerous depositions and related discovery, Quarles & Brady secured a...
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