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Greg Shinall, Partner
Mr. Shinall has represented commercial parties in substantial, complex disputes before domestic and international courts, agencies and tribunals for over fifteen years.
Mr. Shinall's cases and investigations cover the gamut of legal subject matters, including antitrust, business tort, contract, defamation, ERISA, False Claim Act, fraud, indemnification, mergers and acquisitions, patent, regulatory, RICO, securities, trade dress, trademark and white collar criminal. Mr. Shinall has worked in almost every industry segment, including automotive, e-commerce, energy, entertainment, food and beverage, franchising, gaming, healthcare, insurance, investment banking, manufacturing, mining, pharmaceuticals, professional sports, real estate, retailing, software and telecommunications.
Mr. Shinall joined Sperling & Slater in 1994, after beginning his career as an antitrust and commercial litigator at a large Chicago firm.
Mr. Shinall has an AV Peer Review Rating.
Education
University of Chicago, B.A. in Economics, 1987
Valparaiso University School of Law, J.D., 1990
Graduated Second in Class with Highest Distinction
and Honors
Recipient of Jurist Award - Full Tuition Academic
Scholarship
Representative Matters
Complex Commercial Litigation
Mr. Shinall and Mr. Frett recently defended 20 directors and officers of a substantial retail concern against both fiduciary claims exceeding $100 million, and a coverage action brought by the D&O insurer. Both actions were settled favorably, with no liability to the directors and officers. Beginning in 2001, Mr. Slater and Mr. Shinall pursued breach of contract claims against Hyundai on behalf of Bering Truck, the first new U.S. company to enter the commercial truck market in nearly a century. In 2004, they won an arbitration award of $20 million-plus against Hyundai, and subsequently they favorably settled the remaining antitrust and business tort claims against Hyundai and DaimlerChrysler. In 2004, Mr. Shinall and co-counsel represented a healthcare client against a qui tam plaintiff alleging tens of millions of dollars in false claims, and prevailed at the District, Appellate and Supreme Court level. In 1999 and 2000, Mr. Sperling and Mr. Shinall prosecuted multimillion-dollar fraud and breach of contract claims arising out of a client's purchase of a substantial food manufacturing business, and were able to settle the case favorably at the outset of an arbitration hearing. Beginning in 1996, Mr. Sperling, Mr. Shinall and lawyers from other firms defended a hospital system and its officers in a $100 million lawsuit alleging RICO and antitrust violations, breach of contract, fraud and other business torts. In 1998, at the conclusion of a 3-month federal jury trial, the hospital and its officers were found not liable on all counts.
Antitrust
Mr. Slater and Mr. Shinall, along with a prominent Chicago patent firm, conducted a four-week jury trial in which our client, M3 Systems, was accused of infringing two of C.R. Bard's biopsy patents and in which M3 countersued Bard for antitrust violations. The jury found for M3 Systems and against Bard on all counts, invalidated the patents at issue, and awarded M3 Systems several million dollars in antitrust damages. In 1999, the U.S. Supreme Court refused to review the Federal Circuit's decision affirming the key patent and antitrust verdicts, C.R. Bard v. M3 Systems, 157 F.3d 1340 (Fed. Cir. 1998). Mr. Shinall has represented parties in approximately thirty cases and investigations involving antitrust claims, including, In re Clozapine, Baxter v. Akro-Medic, In re Carbon Dioxide, and In re Brand Name Drug.
Government Investigations
Mr. Shinall has represented commercial parties and individuals as complaining parties, witnesses, potential targets and targets, in matters before the Justice Department, the SEC, and other federal agencies.
Bankruptcy
Mr. Shinall frequently represents creditors, equity holders, officers and directors in claims arising out of bankruptcy actions. In recent years, Mr. Shinall has represented clients in collecting tens of millions of dollars in claims, has successfully defended directors and officers from fiduciary claims, and has represented clients in acquisitions and sales of assets and interests from bankrupt estates.
Litigation Counsel for Private Equity Firm
The members of the firm in general, and Mr. Sperling and Mr. Shinall in particular, frequently act as litigation counsel to J.W. Childs Associates, a private equity firm based in Boston and specializing in leveraged buyouts and recapitalizations of middle-market growth companies. Messrs. Sperling and Shinall have worked with Childs for almost 10 years, and in addition to counseling and assisting Childs on day-to-day legal issues, the firm has represented Childs and/or its portfolio companies in connection with numerous matters, including acquisition and post-acquisition disputes, indemnification claims, director and officer liability claims, regulatory issues, insurance coverage disputes, bankruptcy matters and miscellaneous other complex business disputes.
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Greg Shinall
312-641-3200
shinall@sperling-law.com
Sperling & Slater
55 West Monroe Street
Suite 3200
Chicago, Illinois 60603
312-641-3200
fax: 312-641-6492
info@sperling-law.com
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