Tim counsels clients on real estate defaults and disputes, including commercial foreclosures and evictions, as well as disputes arising from development, acquisitions, dispositions, financing, leasing, and construction.
Tim is Chair of Eversheds Sutherland's Real Estate Litigation practice. During his three decades of practice, Tim has represented some of the largest companies in the world in some of their most substantial litigation, including private equity fund and real estate developers, publicly traded companies, lenders, owners, contractors and property managers in litigation involving their assets and projects. Tim’s extensive experience extends beyond commercial real estate disputes, and includes advising construction clients, including the representation of owners, contractors, subcontractors, and design professionals in disputes related to design and construction defects, project cost disputes, and mechanic’s liens.
Tim has significant experience in civil and criminal litigation and has represented clients when their disputes take them into bankruptcy courts. He has argued cases before state and federal trial courts, state Supreme Courts, and has argued before federal appellate courts in the Seventh and Tenth Circuits. His civil litigation experience includes class-action lawsuits, antitrust actions, and breach of contract actions in the securities, construction, health care, pharmaceutical, and financial industries.
His white-collar fraud criminal experience includes cases involving public corruption, mortgage fraud, tax fraud, health care fraud, public finance, and insurance fraud. Tim has also worked on numerous internal investigations and represented clients with respect to government investigations by the Securities and Exchange Commission, the Department of Justice, and the Department of Health and Human Services.
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- Beat It or Never Surrender? Real Estate Lessons Learned from the Pandemic, March 30, 2022, Chicago Chapter of the Association of Corporate Counsel
- COVID-19 impact on doing business in the US, April 24, 2020
- Illinois
- Supreme Court of New Hampshire
- U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois
- U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Illinois
- U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Indiana
- B.S., Indiana University Bloomington
- J.D., cum laude, Indiana University School of Law - Bloomington