Practice Focus
Litigation, Antitrust and Competition Law, International, Business Law, Securities

Biography

Greg Hansel is Chair of the Litigation Practice Group and is listed in Woodward/White’s The Best Lawyers in America.

He focuses his practice on complex business litigation.  He has successfully handled some of Maine’s largest cases and has a national litigation practice.

Greg is experienced in class actions, antitrust & trade regulation, international, securities, construction, corporate, intellectual property, products liability, mass torts, contract, fraud, healthcare, RICO, employment, real estate, land use, technology, lender liability, professional malpractice, personal injury, wrongful death, fidelity & surety, white collar criminal, insurance, arbitration and mediation.

Representative Matters

• Successfully defended Visa U.S.A., Inc., Bayer Corporation and The Sherwin-Williams Company in indirect-purchaser antitrust class actions in Maine Superior Court.
• Defending Maine's largest private employer, Bath Iron Works division of General Dynamics, in U.S. District Court, defeated class certification in claim of former employees.
• Won a $40 million international arbitration award in a contested securities fraud case tried for three weeks in Washington, D.C. on behalf of Kingspan Group PLC of Ireland. 
• Recovered a $143 million settlement in Compact Disc Minimum Advertised Price Antitrust Litigation, MDL No. 1361 (D. Maine), as Court-appointed liaison counsel.
• As Court-appointed co-lead counsel in Foundry Resins Antitrust Litigation, MDL No. 1638 (S.D. Ohio), recovered $14.2 million for foundries.
• Lead trial counsel in obtaining a $1 million jury verdict for punitive damages, one of the largest in Maine history, in landlord/tenant litigation.  Argued and won a unanimous affirmance in the Supreme Judicial Court of Maine. Harris v. Soley, 756 A.2d 499 (Me.)

Professional Achievements/Awards

• "AV" rating by the Martindale-Hubbell Law Directory
• Listed in the Woodward/White’s The Best Lawyers in America for commercial litigation
• Selected as a New England Super Lawyer in business litigation
• Named a Maine Litigation Star in Benchmark: Litigation, the Guide to America's Leading Litigation Firms and Attorneys
• Board Certified in Antitrust and Trade Regulation Law by the Florida Bar
• Board Certified in Business Litigation by The Florida Bar
• Formerly a partner at Holland & Knight, one of the nation’s largest law firms
• Hearing Master, City of Tampa Code Enforcement Board
• Listed in Who's Who in American Law

Publications and Lectures

•  “Extreme Litigation: An Interview with Judge Wm. Terrell Hodges, Chairman of the Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation”, Maine Bar Journal
• Speaker, “Betting-the-Company, How to Avoid and Survive High Stakes U.S. Litigation,” Korea In-House Counsel Forum, program co-sponsored by U.S. Embassy, Seoul
• Speaker, “Hot Topics in Class Actions,” Annual Meeting of Maine State Bar Association
• "Limiting Shareholder Class Actions: The Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995," The Florida Bar Journal
• "Strong Suit: A Primer on Class Actions," Mainebiz

Admissions

• Maine, Florida, District of Columbia, and federal courts, including the Supreme Court of the United States.

Professional Activities

• Member, American Bar Association's Antitrust Law Section and Committee on Class Actions
• Participant, Gubernatorial Trade Mission to South Korea
• Member, Maine Trial Lawyers Association
• Chairman, Florida Bar Convention
• Member, Florida Bar Grievance Committee

Civic Involvement

• Board of Trustees, Portland Symphony Orchestra
• Board of Trustees, Regional Vice-Chair and Executive Committee, Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law. 
• Executive Committee, Appalachian Mountain Club, Maine Chapter
• Chairman of Annual Giving in Northern New England for the University of Virginia School of Law.
• Portland Rotary Club. 
• pro bono attorney for Maine Equal Justice Partners.

Education
J.D., University of Virginia School of Law, 1986 (Dillard Fellow; Moot Court Board)
B.A., Harvard University, 1982 (magna cum laude)