Gavin C. Gaukroger

Gavin C. Gaukroger handles his clients’ most challenging and complex matters throughout South Florida, often in federal district courts and Florida’s circuit courts. Gavin frequently co-counsels with attorneys from other states as local counsel in complex business disputes filed in Florida’s federal courts.

Intellectual Property and Business Tort Litigation
Gavin’s intellectual property litigation experience includes licensing disputes and patent infringement litigation involving complex technologies, copyright, trademark and trade dress infringement, trademark dilution, misappropriation of trade secrets and related claims, noncompetition agreements, technology agreements and licenses as well as Lanham Act claims, unfair and deceptive business practices claims and cases involving injunctions.

Fraud, Shareholder, and Fiduciary Litigation
With extensive experience as counsel to federal and state court-appointed equity receivers and fiduciaries, Gavin has helped recover millions of dollars and provided substantial returns to victims of fraud and receivership estates. He has extensive experience representing officers, directors, and shareholders of private and public companies, receivers, and other fiduciaries, including bankruptcy trustees, debtors in possession, and creditors’ committees. Gavin has extensive experience litigating class actions, contract disputes, shareholder and partnership disputes, claims involving breach of fiduciary duty, fraud, and mismanagement.  

Real Estate Litigation and Insurance Recovery
Gavin’s real estate litigation practice and experience is extensive, often representing owners and developers in significant disputes with contractors, tenants, insurers, and trades. Gavin assists clients maximize insurance recoveries through claims presentation and negotiation, litigation, and alternate dispute resolution in claims involving first party property coverage, business interruption and extra expense coverage, director’s and officer’s liability coverage, fidelity bonds and other crime coverage, professional liability, errors and omissions liability, employment practices liability insurance, and cyber and data breach coverage.

Entrepreneurship, Technology and Compliance
In addition to litigation, Gavin advises early-stage technology and consumer products companies on matters including compliance, employment, intellectual property, privacy, data security, content regulation, consumer protection and advertising. Gavin also represents a broad array of entrepreneurs and corporations in industries such as financial services, real estate, consumer products, energy, construction, and new technologies. Gavin’s client representations include domestic and international concerns, including companies and entrepreneurs based throughout the United States, Canada, China, the Caribbean, India, and Russia.