Emily Peel is a trial attorney representing companies, financial institutions, executives, officers, and individuals working through complicated business disputes. Her work encompasses financial services, banking, real estate, trusts and estates litigation. She dedicates a significant portion of her practice to litigating intricate contract disputes, shareholder disagreements, and business torts.
A practical and persuasive litigator, Emily solves an array of complex business problems and helps individuals enduring business divorces. In many instances, she facilitates productive pre-trial strategies to reach comprehensive solutions, but if a matter goes to trial, she applies her extensive advocacy skills. Emily frequently appears before federal and state courts, an impressive track record.
Emily represents some of America’s largest financial institutions, navigating complex litigation involving lender liability, commercial mortgages, commercial loans, consumer disputes, and other financial services matters. Her experience also includes resolving real estate contract disputes for clients who own, develop, and sell commercial property. Emily also represents clients in trust and estate litigation, successfully representing trustees, executors, and beneficiaries.
experience
- Successfully defended a corporation against a claim filed in its bankruptcy proceeding in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York. Claimant sought more than $1 million in damages, plus an equal amount in fees, maintenance, interest, and other charges.
- After a four-day trial, obtained judgment on behalf of a seller of real property on the seller’s breach of contract claim after the buyer failed to close on the real estate contract, and successfully defended counterclaims of fraud, rescission, and violation of the Illinois Real Estate Disclosure Act.
- On behalf of a buyer of a business, obtained summary judgment on fraud, breach of contract and duress claims filed by the seller, in which the seller claimed the buyer purchased business in an attempt to eliminate a competitor and failed to use good faith in marketing, producing, and selling seller’s products to generate royalties.
- Successfully completed replevin actions recovering and repossessing inventory.
- Represent clients in commercial foreclosure cases and asset recovery
- American Bar Association
- Chicago Bar Association
- Illinois State Bar Association
- Illinois Super Lawyers, Rising Stars, (by Thomson Reuters), 2010-2021