Fred M Wood Jr

Practice Areas

Litigation

Commercial Litigation & Business Torts

Banking & Financial Services

Construction

Professional Liability

Career

Fred Wood represents companies in a variety of matters, including cases involving unfair business practices and methods of competition, the North Carolina Trade Secrets Protection Act, business torts, and class actions. He has prosecuted and defended businesses and their interests with regard to commercial contracts. He has experience in securing and defending against Temporary Restraining Orders, Preliminary Injunctions and Permanent Injunctions in order to protect business strategies, assets (hard and soft), and capital of commercial clients in a variety of jurisdictions. He has also represented companies, partnerships, and individuals in shareholder and partnership disputes and oppression claims by minority shareholders.

He also focuses on financial services litigation. He has represented banks, financial institutions, investment advisors, and other professional services firms in matters that include securities lending and litigation, professional liability, antitrust, breach of fiduciary duty, transactional, and contractual disputes.

Professional Memberships

American Bar Association

North Carolina Bar Association

Mecklenburg County Bar

DRI – The Voice of the Defense Bar

Personal

Wake Forest University, Babcock Graduate School of Management, MBA (1991)

Wake Forest University School of Law, JD (1991)

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, BA (1986)