Brett Charhon

Brett Charhon is a Principal in the Dallas office of McKool Smith. He has worked on various litigation matters

Representative Matters

• Toll Brothers. Mr. Charhon represents Toll Brothers and five other national home builders in a case brought by Wachovia Bank, N.A. in the Southern District of New York. The suit alleges that the home builders breached completion guaranties that were executed in connection with a 1,700 acre tract of property that was purchased from the United States Department of the Interior's Bureau of Land Management for more than $500 million in 2005.
• Parrish v. NFLPA. Mr. Charhon was a member of a team that represented a class of over 2,000 retired NFL players, alleging breaches of contractual and fiduciary duties related to the licensing of the class members' images, in a lawsuit against the NFL Players Association, and its licensing subsidiary, Players Inc. The case was tried to a jury in November 2008, and the jury returned a verdict of approximately $28M.
• Holly Oil Corporation. – Holly Oil Corporation v. Frontier Oil Corporation. Mr. Charhon was a member of the litigation team that represented Holly Oil in a suit in which Frontier Oil alleged that Holly failed to perform under an agreement to merge the two companies when it invoked a material adverse change. The case was tried in the Delaware Chancery Court in February 2004, resulting in Holly being absolved of all wrongdoing.
• BearingPoint, Inc. -- Mr. Charhon represents BearingPoint in commercial litigation matters. Most recently, Mr. Charhon represented BearingPoint in an arbitration against Baylor Health Care System before the International Institute for Conflict Prevention and Resolution.
• Electronic Data Systems Corp. Mr. Charhon is part of the litigation team that has represented EDS in several matters involving EDS' major contracts.

Professional & Community Activities

• Dallas Association of Young Lawyers
• Phi Delta Phi

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