When the Stakes are High, Trust the Attorneys at Gammage & Burnham

Rick Mahrle at Gammage & Burnham served as lead counsel in an arbitration governed by the AAA’s international arbitration rules. Rick represented a London-based consumer products company that had a dispute with an Arizona company that licensed its patented products to the London company to sell throughout the European Union. The dispute centered on the proper interpretation of the license agreement that had been drafted years earlier by non-lawyers. This was truly a “bet the company” type of litigation, as had the London-based company lost the arbitration, it would no longer have been allowed to sell its primary product line and undoubtedly would have closed down. The dispute involved taking depositions in London and the United States and a lengthy arbitration hearing in Arizona. The London-based company prevailed on all of its positions and was awarded more than $300,000 in attorneys’ fees.