Complex Fraud & Securities Litigation
Gavin C. Gaukroger
Partner
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.
- Representations of intellectual property rights holders and equity receivers, including enforcement of temporary restraining orders and preliminary injunctions in coordination with law enforcement and regulators to freeze and recover assets
- Representations of creditors in judgment enforcement and collection actions to recover personal and real property
- Representations of plaintiffs and defendants in claims brought under the Copyright Act
- Representations of plaintiffs and defendants in numerous cases involving allegations of false advertising under the Lanham Act
- Representations of clients to recover domain names from cybersquatters
- Representations of trademark holders against infringers in domain name, trade name and trademark litigation in state courts and before the Trademark Trial and Appeals Board and the UDRP
- Representation of a holder of telephony patents in litigation against former licensees
- Representation of minority shareholders in enforcement of drag-along rights during dispute between private equity investors and company management
- Representation of debtors and unsecured creditors committees in bankruptcy litigations
- Representation of a Fortune 250 energy company in litigation relating to tax credits for synthetic fuel production through trial
- Representation of a majority investor in complex legal malpractice litigation against former counsel which represented both the public company and the majority investor in debt-financing transactions
- Representation of a real estate hedge fund through trial to recover monetary damages and injunctive relief for ongoing breach of contract
- Representation of a real estate investment trust to recover damages from breach of contract and breach of warranty
- Representation of developers in commercial and residential construction litigation and third-party practice against contractors, subcontractors and suppliers
- Representation of an international parcel tanker corporation in litigation arising out of government civil and criminal antitrust investigations
- Representation of receivers, trustees, corporate fiduciaries, individual fiduciaries and beneficiaries in high stakes disputes and government enforcement actions
- Representation of investors in litigation relating to securities fraud, corporate waste, and mismanagement by company insiders
- Representation of issuers of securities in securities fraud litigation against broker-dealers
- Significant experience counseling and advising businesses on electronic records management and drafting marketing and joint-development agreements for technology companies
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- Florida Super Lawyers, Rising Star, Business Litigation, 2011, 2013-2018
- Florida Trend, Legal Elite – Up & Comer, 2014-2017
- Washington's Super Lawyers, Rising Star, 2010
- Past-President, The Federal Bar Association - Broward County Chapter
- Member, Commercial Receivers Assocation
- Member, Bench and Bar Conference Committee of the United States District Court; Southern District of Florida
- Member, The Federal Court Practice Committee for The Florida Bar
- Member, Uniform Commercial Real Estate Receivership Act (UCRERA) Task Force - Business Law Section of the Florida Bar
- Past-Board Chair and Board Member, 2-1-1 Broward
- Leadership Broward Class XXX, 2011-2012
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