Tucker Ellis LLP

Firm Details:

Managing Partner: James Mizgala

Number of lawyers: 245+

Firm Overview:

Tucker Ellis LLP was founded in 2003 by 90 lawyers focused on building a law firm different from any other that had previously existed – one that would deliver the best possible experience to clients, communities, and one another. Today, more than 245 lawyers practice nationwide from 11 “long Hallways” – Atlanta, Chicago, Cleveland, Columbus, Los Angeles, Morristown, New York City, Orange County, San Francisco, St. Louis, and Washington, D.C. – serving a Fortune 250 list of national and international litigation, intellectual property, and sophisticated business clients.

Main Areas of Practice:

Appellate & Legal Issues

Business Litigation

Corporate/M&A/Securities

Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation

Estates

Finance

Health & Life Sciences, including Life Sciences Litigation

Insurance

Intellectual Property

Mass Tort & Product Liability

Real Estate, including Zoning & Land Use

Tax

Business Litigation:

• Handles disputes involving contractual obligations, fiduciary duties, insurance coverage, unfair business practices, white collar crime, antitrust violations, securities fraud, misappropriation of trade secrets, violations of covenants not to compete, RICO violations, and employment practices, including class actions in these areas
• Has experience in state and federal courts and has successfully tried to verdict, mediated, and arbitrated matters throughout the United States

Key Clients: Serves clients ranging from Fortune 500 corporations to family-run businesses, entrepreneurs, and sole proprietorships

Contact: Chelsea Mikula, Co-chair

Tel: 216 696 2476

Email: [email protected]

Contact: Seth Wamelink, Co-chair

Tel: 216 696 3791

Email: [email protected]

Insurance Contact: Kevin Young, Chair

Tel: 216 696 4691

Email: [email protected]

White Collar Criminal Defense & Corporate Investigations Contact: John F. McCaffrey, Chair

Tel: 216 696 3486

Email: [email protected]

Intellectual Property:

• Full-service national practice has litigated IP cases in numerous states and the District of Columbia, as well as the Federal Circuit and regional Circuit Courts of Appeal
• Litigates matters before the United States ITC, TTAB, and PTAB of the USPTO, and the World Intellectual Property Organization
• Experienced in areas including copyrights, Internet and electronic commerce, patents, designs, trade secrets, trademarks, and infringement analysis; electrical, mechanical, and chemical engineering, as well as signal processing and computer software

Key Clients: Represents high-technology companies of all sizes, from Fortune 50 to newly emerging companies

Contact: Carlos Garritano, Chair

Tel: 216 696 5364

Email: [email protected]

Mass Tort & Product Liability:

• Represents a diverse portfolio of companies at both trial and appellate levels in tens of thousands of cases filed in state and federal courts nationwide
• Focuses on the national, regional, and local defense of premises and product liability cases involving a wide variety of industrial, commercial, and consumer products
• Manage high-profile cases involving allegations specific to a unique product, as well as toxic tort or repeat litigation related to alleged similar product defects, and exposures to substances such as super absorbent polymers, asbestos, silica, coal mine dust, benzene, diacetyl, talc, vinyl chloride, lead and heavy metals, formaldehyde, PFAS, and mold

Key Clients: Represents many of the largest and most successful corporations in the world

Contact: Brian Huelsmann, Co-chair

Tel: 314.256.2530

Email: [email protected]

Contact: Clifford Mendelsohn, Co-chair

Tel: 216.696.3921

Email: [email protected]

Life Sciences Litigation:

• Represents clients in the national, regional, and local defense of medical device and pharmaceutical liability cases
• Serves as national counsel, regional counsel, or trial counsel in proceedings involving hundreds to thousands of individual plaintiffs in federal MDLs, coordinated state actions, and single-plaintiff bellwethers across the country
• Routinely litigates cases throughout the United States and has tried to verdict cases in dozens of states
• Has secured path-breaking preemption and Rule 702 victories that have dramatically curtailed liability
• Has obtained complete defense verdicts in notoriously plaintiff-friendly venues – including wins in preterm infant formula, pelvic-mesh, and talc

Key Clients: Represents many of the largest and most successful pharmaceutical and medical device companies in the world

Contact: Sherry Knutson, Co-chair

Tel: 312 624 6322

Email: [email protected]

Contact: Tariq Naeem, Co-chair

Tel: 216 696 3675

Email: [email protected]

General Corporate - including Mergers & Acquisitions and Securities & Capital Markets:

• Advises public and private companies, private equity firms, and investment advisors on sophisticated transactional matters, including M&A, public offerings, and private placements
• Advises boards of directors on takeover preparedness and defense, corporate governance, corporate counseling, securities laws compliance, and shareholder and investor relations
• Represents engaged shareholders in communicating with management of struggling public companies

Key Clients: Ampex Brands, Enovis Corporation, Stoneridge, Inc.

Contact: Tom Peppard, Chair

Tel: 216 696 5267

Email: [email protected]

Real Estate:

The Real Estate Group represents:

• Lenders, borrowers, developers, and governmental bodies in mixed-use development
• Major corporations in headquarters and facilities development, expansion, acquisition/divestiture and financing projects
• Owners and end-users in ground, office, industrial, retail, and government leasing
• Borrowers and governmental bodies in TIF and other public incentive programs
• REITs, public and private investors, developers, and retailers in acquisitions and dispositions
• Developers and owners in challenging zoning classifications, tax valuations, and regulatory matters

Key Clients: Represents public and private institutions and funds, governmental entities, private developers, regional and national lenders, and manufacturing and industrial concerns

Contact: Keith Raker, Real Estate Chair

Tel: 216 696 2468

Email: [email protected]

Zoning & Land Use

The Zoning & Land Use Group represents clients' interests in matters including:

• Zoning permitting
• Conditional use permits
• Nonconforming use permits
• Variances
• Zoning text amendments
• Map amendments
• Eminent domain

Key Clients: Represents developers, retailers, business owners, telecommunications companies, and property owners

Contact: John Slagter, Zoning & Land Use Chair

Tel: 216 696 5863

Email: [email protected]