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Kevin M. Fitzgerald

Nixon Peabody LLP
  • Recognized Since:
    2011
  • Recognized in:
    Commercial Litigation
    Litigation - Banking and Finance...
  • Website:
    http://www.nixonpeabody.com
  • Location:
    900 Elm Street
    Manchester, NH 03101-2031
"Kevin Fitzgerald is an excellent lawyer who brings a team of very competent and dedicated attorneys to tackle a complex problem. Kevin's trial skills are superior. His arguments, remarks, and ability to convey the client's side of the argument are second to none. Careful research, strategic thinking, and the ability to lead a team of professionals are all hallmarks of Kevin's practice."

-Thomas Buchanan (Derry Medical Center)

"Kevin is a gifted litigator. He knows when and how to finesse a situation via negotiations and strategy, but has the firepower to back it up, if and when court is the only solution."

-John Friberg (Elliot Hospital), Manchester

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Lawyer Bio

Kevin Fitzgerald is a nationally recognized litigator whose practice is focused on complicated business disputes. Kevin is also a firm leader serving his second term as chairman of the Policy Committee, the firm’s principal governance and oversight board, and previously in its Manchester office as the firm’s longest-serving office managing partner.

What do you focus on?

I have a trial practice, national in scope, concentrated in the area of complicated financial disputes. I have particular experience in constitutional challenges to government action impairing private contract rights and in federal and state receivership proceedings. I recently secured on behalf of national equipment manufacturers a preliminary injunction on constitutional grounds of legislation purporting to retrospectively impair manufacturer/dealer agreements. I have successfully tried as lead counsel high dollar value claims of national note involving challenges to unconstitutional government action, mergers and acquisitions, corporate fiduciary duty, lender rights, class action and insurance coverage. Most recently, I was lead counsel in a complex, multi-forum litigation winning a $110MM judgment for a class of 6000+ health care providers.

In addition to courts in which I am admitted, I have appeared in matters in most other U.S. jurisdictions including courts in New York, California, Illinois, Indiana, Delaware, Maryland, Rhode Island, Vermont, Virginia, Nevada, New Mexico, Florida, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Texas, Washington, Connecticut and Maine. I have also appeared in American Arbitration Association proceedings in New York City, Boston and Washington, D.C.

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Education:

  • University of New Hampshire, BA

Bar Admissions:

  • Massachusetts, Massachusetts Bar Association
  • New Hampshire, New Hampshire Bar Association

Named "Lawyer of the Year" by Best Lawyers for:

  • Litigation - Banking and Finance, Manchester (2018)
 

Recognized in The Best Lawyers in America for work in:

  • Commercial Litigation
  • Litigation - Banking and Finance
  • Litigation - Mergers and Acquisitions
  • Mass Tort Litigation / Class Actions - Defendants

Federal Clerkships:

  • United States Court of Appeals
  • United States District Court
  • United States Supreme Court
 

Lawyer Client Comments

"Kevin Fitzgerald is an excellent lawyer who brings a team of very competent and dedicated attorneys to tackle a complex problem. Kevin's trial skills are superior. His arguments, remarks, and ability to convey the client's side of the argument are second to none. Careful research, strategic thinking, and the ability to lead a team of professionals are all hallmarks of Kevin's practice."

Thomas Buchanan, Derry Medical Center

"Kevin is a gifted litigator. He knows when and how to finesse a situation via negotiations and strategy, but has the firepower to back it up, if and when court is the only solution."

John Friberg, Elliot Hospital, Manchester

Firm Details

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Nixon Peabody LLP
http://www.nixonpeabody.com
 
Headquarters
100 Summer Street
Boston, MA 02110-2131
(617) 345.1000
17 Office Locations
in 4 Countries

China

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Shanghai, China

Plaza 66, 63rd Floor, Suite 6302

1266 Nan Jing West Road

Shanghai 200040

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86 21 6137 5500

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Hong Kong

Hong Kong

Central, Hong Kong

Bank of China Tower, 50th Floor

1 Garden Road

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852 9307 3900

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United Kingdom

London, United Kingdom

17 Hanover Square

London W1S 1BN

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44 20 7096 6600

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California

California

Los Angeles, CA

300 South Grand Avenue, Suite 4100

Los Angeles, CA 90071-3151

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(213) 629.6000

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Two Palo Alto Square, Suite 500

3000 El Camino Real

Palo Alto, CA 94306-2106

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(650) 320.7700

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One Embarcadero Center, Suite 1800

San Francisco, CA 94111-3600

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(415) 984.8200

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District of Columbia

Washington, DC

799 Ninth Street, NW, Suite 500

Washington, DC 20001-5327

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(202) 585.8000

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Chicago, IL

70 West Madison Street, Suite 3500

Chicago, IL 60602-4283

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(312) 977.4400

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Manchester, NH

900 Elm Street

Manchester, NH 03101-2031

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(603) 628.4000

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Albany, NY

677 Broadway, 10th Floor

Albany, NY 12207-2996

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(518) 427.2650

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40 Fountain Plaza, Suite 500

Buffalo, NY 14202-2224

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Jericho, NY 11753-2728

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55 West 46th Street

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1300 Clinton Square

Rochester, NY 14604-1792

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(585) 263.1000

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Raleigh, NC

4208 Six Forks Road, Suite 1000

Raleigh, NC 27609

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(919) 825.4873

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Providence, RI

One Citizens Plaza

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