Garrett Dillon Email & Phone Number

San Francisco Bay Area

REPRESENTATIVE EXPERIENCE• Recovered $135+ million in damages in an 11-week bench trial representing a general contractor against a software development subcontractor with causes of action for breach of contract and negligent misrepresentation. The initial engagement challenged a California public owner’s termination of the general contractor’s $100+ million contract for alleged default. After a 10-week trial, the final award included 100% recovery of the general contractor’s claims, a full defense of subcontractor’s $15 million in counterclaims, and recovery of approximately $35 million in prejudgment interest. • Awarded $6.3 million in damages, fees, costs, and interest by an arbitration panel on behalf of a general contractor in a dispute arising from a project to partially demolish and rebuild a glass beads manufacturing facility in Mexia, Texas. VLMG represented the general contractor against the project owner and conclusively prevailed, with every substantive entitlement issue resolved in contractor’s favor, and fully defensed owner’s $11+ million in counterclaims. • Represented EPC contractor in a multi-week international arbitration proceeding against mechanical subcontractor’s $25 million claims for additional work and lost productivity arising out of heavy industrial piping work performed on a $1.7 billion solar power plant.• Represented Canadian design-build subcontractor in arbitration proceeding regarding multiple solar power projects located in Ontario, Canada, successfully resolving subcontractor’s multi-million dollar claims against prime contractor for additional payment owed due to differing subsurface soil conditions and contractor-caused delays and disruption prior to hearing. • Successfully defended prime contractor against construction claims brought by Owner in multi-party private arbitration on a hospital project and negotiated settlement recovering over $10 million in delay damages for prime contractor and trade subcontractors.

San Francisco, Ca

REPRESENTATIVE EXPERIENCE• Represented deep-pile subcontractor in arbitration proceeding asserting payment claims against prime contractor and defending against design and construction claims by prime contractor, overturning termination for default against subcontractor and recovering affirmative damages in favor of subcontractor at arbitration on state highway bridge project. • Represented design-build contractor asserting breach of contract claims against Owner and defending against design and construction claims brought by Owner, successfully settling the lawsuit and eliminating over 80% of Owner’s affirmative claims on a landfill-gas-to-electricity power plant. • Represented private healthcare administrator against public entity prison system on several contract claims, appearing before Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals on jurisdictional issues, and successfully setting up framework for settlement and multi-million dollar recovery by healthcare administrator.• Represented design professional in two wrongful death lawsuits where the professional engineer was accused of negligent design of a multi-lane roadway, defending against over $15 million in combined claims brought by the estates of the decedents and resolving the case with a costs of defense settlement.

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