Partners
Eleven partners, and the cases each one has carried.
No associate tier stands between you and the partner here. The person named on your matter prepares it, drafts it, argues it in court, and answers the phone early on a Sunday when opposing counsel serves something unexpected.
Managing PartnerLeads the firm and runs its emergency relief practice. He has handled asset freezes, receiverships and collection fights for three decades, sits on the firm's intake committee, and still answers the after-hours line himself on his own weekends. Clients describe him as blunt about cost and patient about evidence.Open profile →
Gideon HaleFraud & RecoveryAdmitted 1994 · Illinois Bar
PartnerRuns the arbitration group and acts in ICC, ICDR and LCIA cases for manufacturers, distributors and their lenders. She plans the collection before the demand is served, sits on no institutional panels by choice, and stays on the file until the award is paid in full, which in her cases is the only result that counts.Open profile →
Maren VossWorldwide ArbitrationAdmitted 1999
PartnerHandles shareholder, partnership and earn-out disputes for founders and family businesses across the Midwest. She prepares every case for trial and settles most of them from that position, usually well before a jury is picked, and she will tell a client early when a claim is better dropped than pressed any further.Open profile →
Clare AshdownBusiness DisputesAdmitted 2001
PartnerAsset freezes, tracing discovery, and the slow work of collecting in jurisdictions that resist it at every step. He has won emergency relief on a few hours' notice several times this year, and he gives the sworn evidence as much attention as the motion, since that evidence is where an order usually fails.Open profile →
Rhys CalderFraud LitigationAdmitted 2003
PartnerActs for lenders, funds and trading counterparties in loan, guaranty and derivatives disputes. He reads the documents before the pleadings, builds valuation cases a judge can actually follow, and coordinates closely with regulators when a civil claim runs alongside an inquiry into the same trades.Open profile →
Anton LindqvistBanking & FinanceAdmitted 2005
PartnerRepresents trustees, creditor committees and directors in the litigation that follows a corporate failure. Her cases usually turn on timing: when the company became insolvent, what the board knew on that date, and which payments made afterward should come back to the estate for the benefit of creditors.Open profile →
Harriet MossBankruptcy & RestructuringAdmitted 2006Who instructs these partners
Who instructs these partners
- Northwater
- Halcyon Rail
- Ferro & Vale
- Kingfisher Grain
- Brightmoor
- Coldharbor
- Asterwood
11Partners
5Associates
26Average years admitted
1Partner on every file
“We met the partner who would argue the case on day one, and she was still the one arguing it two years later. Nobody else was handed our file.”
Dana WhitcombeHead of Legal
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