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Practices

Commercial Litigation

When legal disputes are impacting your business, you need commercial litigation attorneys to not only help you navigate the complex legal landscape but also lead you to a business-minded resolution. Our attorneys at Gray Ice Higdon work to find innovative and strategic solutions tailored to ensuring your business’s success.

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Our Approach

When It’s All At Stake, You Can Bet On Us

Our litigators aim to operate as a part of your business team. Working closely with our clients, we offer creative and cost-effective solutions. Whether intervening in a dispute early with risk-avoidance strategies, negotiating favorable commercial resolutions, or aggressively and efficiently litigating a case through jury trial, we can help resolve your complex legal issues in a manner that allows you to focus on and grow your business.

From publicly traded multi-national companies to family businesses and executives, companies and their leaders turn to Gray Ice Higdon’s experienced and strategic litigators when facing business disputes.

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Areas of Experience

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We have a team of attorneys with depths of experience in the areas most valuable to our clients, including:

  • Breach of contract

  • Shareholder derivative claims

  • Limited liability company disputes and dissolutions

  • Business transactions

  • Restrictive covenants

  • Consumer appliances

  • Internal investigations

  • Commercial lending/lender liability

  • Corporate governance

  • Fraudulent transfers

  • Transactional disputes

  • Officer and director breach of fiduciary duty claims

  • Partnership disputes and dissolutions

  • Confidentiality agreements

  • Intellectual property

  • Employee relations

  • Nondisclosure agreements, non-compete agreements, and confidentiality agreements

  • Breach of fiduciary duty

  • Consumer claims

  • Fraud and misrepresentation

  • Trade secrets

Results

Client Successes

With considerable trial experience, our litigators have accomplished favorable outcomes for businesses across industries.

  • Successfully enforced director and officer advancement of litigation expenses in Director Indemnification Agreement contracts in dispute between hospitality company and former CEO and directors of the company, obtaining awards in excess of $1 million dollars, including a punitive damages award.

  • Successfully argued before the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals to affirm a $3.2 million dollar judgment in non-compete and non-solicitation breach of contract action, including affirming the determination that the judgment was not dischargeable in bankruptcy by the defendant.

  • Obtained summary judgment on behalf of Kentucky Oil Transport Company in a multi-million dollar dispute brought by a former owner of the company related to stock ownership.

  • Obtained complete dismissal of claims against bank alleging that it had breached a loan purchase agreement and committed fraud in failing to disclose the status of collateral to the purchaser.

  • Obtained summary judgment in favor of law firm client alleged to have breached fiduciary duty by acting with a conflict of interest.

  • Obtained a multi-million dollar settlement favorable for hospitals in a breach of contract dispute with a large health maintenance organization alleging the HMO unilaterally tried to change its contract.

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Our Team

Meet Our Attorneys

Our tight-knit, cohesive group competes with, and prevails against, the biggest firms in the country because we enjoy both the challenge and the journey. As your value-added legal service provider, we consider ourselves storytellers, learning the ins and outs of your business to craft compelling, authentic, and credible cases that lead to a resolution in your best interest and the interest of your business objectives.

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