Eversheds Grows Chicago Team with Tim McCaffrey
Eversheds Sutherland is pleased to announce that Timothy J. McCaffrey has joined as counsel in our recently opened Chicago office.
Timothy is the fifth attorney to join the Chicago office since it opened in May; he joins Partner Robert D. Owen in establishing Eversheds Sutherland’s Litigation Practice Group in the Windy City.
Timothy focuses his practice on real estate litigation and regularly counsels clients on real estate development, acquisitions, dispositions, financing, leasing defaults and disputes, and commercial foreclosures. He also has extensive experience advising construction clients including the representation of owners, contractors, subcontractors, and design professionals in disputes related to design and construction defects, project cost disputes, and mechanic’s liens.
In the last 20 years, Timothy has represented some of the largest private equity fund and real estate developers, owners, and managers in litigation over their assets. He has significant experience in civil and criminal litigation that includes class action lawsuits, antitrust actions, and breach of contract actions in the securities, construction, health care, pharmaceutical, and financial industries.
In addition, Timothy brings white collar fraud criminal experience that includes cases involving public corruption, mortgage fraud, tax fraud, health care fraud, public finance, and insurance fraud.
He has also worked on numerous internal investigations and represented clients with respect to government investigations by the Securities and Exchange Commission, the Department of Justice, and the Department of Health and Human Services.
Litigation Practice Group
With more than 100 litigators, Eversheds Sutherland’s Litigation Group has tried and argued cases in the United States Supreme Court, all 13 circuits of the United States Court of Appeals, the Court of Federal Claims, the Tax Court and hundreds of federal district and state trial and appellate courts.
Eversheds Sutherland’s litigation team represents regional, national and international clients from a broad range of industries, including energy, financial services, securities, insurance, construction, manufacturing, automotive, distribution, education, professional services, data privacy, electronics, technology and defence.