Mr. O’Bryan focuses his practice in Insurance Coverage, Reinsurance, Unfair Competition, and Commercial Litigation. In addition to his extensive litigation experience in state and federal trial and appellate courts throughout the U.S., Mr. O’Bryan has arbitrated to award investment disputes before the American Arbitration Association, the London Court of International Arbitration, and the FINRA Dispute Resolution Center, as well as numerous insurance/reinsurance disputes before ad hoc panels. Prior to entering the legal profession, Mr. O’Bryan worked for the Smith Richardson Foundation in New York City, and the European Journalism Network in Prague, where he helped young journalists in Central and… Read more
Mr. O’Day heads SGR’s Environmental, Energy and Sustainability Practice Groups. The Environmental Practice Group handles all aspects of traditional environmental legal issues and OSHA compliance. The Energy Practice Group assists clients with energy acquisitions, development and procurement, for all kinds of energy sources. SGR’s Sustainability Practice Group provides focused legal advice and representation to companies and entities regarding sustainability initiatives, sustainable businesses and business practices, renewable energy, business issues, planning, and litigation. Mr. O’Day handles environmental and energy litigation, consultation and negotiations. He advises clients in connection with the full range of environmental issues, including National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System… Read more
Mr. O’Hara is a business trial lawyer who concentrates his practice in the litigation and trial of complex commercial matters in federal and state courts and matters involving the law of lawyering. He has tried cases involving the federal securities laws, antitrust laws, breach of fiduciary duty, trade secrets, trademark infringement, breach of contract, legal malpractice, contract reformation, unjust enrichment, license agreements, executive employment, the Uniform Commercial Code, fraud, and criminal defense. Mr. O’Hara also litigates private shareholder and partnership disputes, fraudulent transfers, defamation, and other commercial matters. He has represented clients in investigations by the Securities and Exchange Commission,… Read more
Mr. O’Neill concentrates his practice on commercial real estate law with a primary emphasis on commercial leasing, representing both landlords and tenants nationwide. Mr. O’Neill’s expertise extends to high-value transactions, having guided his clients through the purchase and sale of real estate assets totaling hundreds of millions of dollars, including apartment complexes, office buildings, and mixed-use industrial properties. Additionally, he offers comprehensive support in property financing and refinancing endeavors, ensuring clients’ financial interests are safeguarded. Prior to joining SGR, Mr. O’Neill was a Partner at Ingram LLP. He has been named a Super Lawyer by Super Lawyers Magazine every year since… Read more
Mr. Obande services clients in various areas of transactional law, energy law, and construction law. His practice includes counseling owners, developers, contractors, and subcontractors through the various stages of transaction and project life-cycles, including the initiation, planning, execution, controlling, and closing stages. Mr. Obande assists his clients with negotiating various transactions, including commercial contracts, and counsels clients on project risks, claims, and disputes. His transactions and claims experience includes a wide range of projects in energy and construction, including renewable energy (solar, wind, hydrogen, and battery energy storage systems (“BESS”), nuclear, heavy civils, pipe construction, and manufacturing and industrials (pulp… Read more
Rett started out thinking he wanted to be a college professor, until he realized that a PhD in the humanities was not the surest path to gainful employment. Now, instead of spending his days in library stacks filled with dusty tomes, he can be found lost in thought coming up with ideas for his clients. Rett’s multidisciplinary practice often focuses on helping clients with mergers and acquisitions. Many of his clients are the owners of closely-held and family enterprises for whom selling a business is the most significant financial transaction in their lives. Rett has a strong interest in middle… Read more
Mr. Pearson is an experienced trial lawyer who has tried numerous cases to verdict in both state and federal courts in Illinois and across the country. His trial and litigation practice involves a number of areas with an emphasis upon restrictive covenant and trade secrets in the insurance brokerage arena. His vast depth of experience in trials and litigation also involves complex insurance coverage, bad faith, reinsurance, and non-medical professional liability matters. Mr. Pearson also regularly litigates large scale attorney fee disputes and has testified as an expert witness in such matters. His practice representing parties in restrictive covenant and… Read more
Todd S. Pickard is a transactional corporate and real estate lawyer with more than 30 years’ experience. He endeavors to work with his clients to determine both their needs and, often more importantly, those of their counter-party to structure and close successful transactions. Over the years, Mr. Pickard has represented cooperative apartment corporations and condominiums in all manner of legal and business issues. He has structured and closed on the purchase, sale, leasing, financing, refinancing and development of income-producing real property. In recent years, Mr. Pickard has represented foreign purchasers of US real property, primarily multi-family and primarily from Israel… Read more
Mr. Porter practices in the area of commercial real estate and general business law, with significant experience in multi-family and medical office acquisitions and dispositions, commercial office and retail leasing, shopping center development, financing transactions, distressed debt resolutions, condominium regimes, property management and title insurance. Mr. Porter also has significant experience in the purchase, sale and financing of agricultural, retail, office and auto dealership properties. Mr. Porter has served as Florida counsel to a number of national and regional banks in their mortgage lending activities. He has been recognized by The Best Lawyers in America (2013-2015 and 2017-2026). Prior to… Read more
Mr. Pottorff has more than 35 years experience assisting clients in a variety of real estate matters including representing buyers, sellers, landlords, tenants, lenders and borrowers in connection with all types of properties, including office, industrial, agricultural and multi-family properties. He has particular expertise in timberland transactions, having represented buyers and sellers in large timberland transactions nationwide and abroad. Mr. Pottorff has spoken at numerous seminars and conferences on timberland law and investing, and he is the co-author of “Hunters, Trespassers, and Fires: Liability Concerns for Timberland Owners” published in The Natural Resources Law Manual 167 (Richard J. Fink ed.,… Read more
