Gair Gallo Eberhard LLP

Managing Partner:Chris Gair

Number of partners:4

Number of lawyers:6

Languages:English, Spanish

Firm Overview:

Gair Eberhard Nelson Dedinas is an elite litigation boutique renowned for its complex civil litigation, white collar defense, employment litigation and counseling, and internal investigations. From bet-the-company cases to sensitive employment matters, their proven track record of success gives clients peace of mind in even the most challenging cases.

■ Complex Civil Litigation

Gair Eberhard has a tremendous depth of experience and success representing both plaintiffs and defendants, including individuals, officers and directors of Fortune 100 companies, closely held and public companies, private equity funds, hospital groups, real estate investment trusts, high-frequency trading firms and traders, corporate whistleblowers, and many others in complex commercial disputes.

The firm’s practice encompasses:

• Complex contract disputes
• Business ownership disputes
• Litigation following the purchase and sale of businesses, including earnout and accounting disputes
• Fraud, securities, and commodities trading
• Claims for misappropriation of trade secrets and violations of non-competition agreements/restrictive covenants
• Bankruptcy
• Trust and estate litigation
• Antitrust

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■ White Collar Defense

Gair Eberhard’s lawyers have decades of experience handling white collar defense, including federal and state criminal investigations and prosecutions; SEC, CFTC, FINRA, and exchange enforcement investigations and prosecutions; and other regulatory investigations.

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The firm has defended clients ranging from elected officials, cities, and villages to doctors, bankers, lawyers, business executives, accountants, and Fortune 500 companies in a wide variety of federal criminal cases including alleged:

• Health care fraud
• Bribery and extortion
• Tax evasion
• Mail and wire fraud
• Bank fraud
• Securities and commodities fraud
• Insider trading

Firm attorneys have a deep understanding of how to represent officers, executives, and directors of corporations and have defended numerous firms and individuals in regulatory investigations and enforcement actions. These cases include multiple “spoofing” cases, matters involving complex derivatives and auction-rate securities, Ponzi scheme cases, and matters involving alleged trading violations, such as wash trading and market manipulation as well as registration, accounting, custodial, and reporting violations.

■ Employment Litigation and Counseling

Firm attorneys have extensive experience representing both employers and employees in a wide range of employment disputes, including discrimination, harassment, retaliation, wage and hour, whistleblower, non-compete/unfair competition disputes, employment contracts, and trade secret misappropriation cases and have tried employment cases in federal and state courts and before administrative tribunals.

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In addition to employment litigation, Gair Eberhard also provides employment and compliance counseling as well as conducts compliance training and employment related internal investigations.

■ Internal Investigations

Firm partners have conducted internal investigations for companies of all sizes in the US and Latin America relating to allegations of fraud, sexual harassment, discrimination, retaliation, conflicts of interest, workplace misconduct, FCPA compliance, FLSA compliance, and False Claims Act issues.