Peter C. Magnuson

Transaction and Commercial Litigation

Peter represents clients in post-transaction disputes and related commercial litigation. He is experienced in matters involving indemnification rights, purchase-price adjustments, earn-out provisions, and trade secrets and confidential information. He also serves clients as a trusted advisor and zealous advocate whenever high-stakes contractual disputes arise. Most recently, Peter led a trial team at a three-week trial in a contractual dispute with nearly $250 million at stake, achieving a favorable verdict for an energy company. He also has successfully defended a public university at a two-week trial involving a $28 million breach-of-contract claim.

Securities Litigation

Peter represents clients and their officers and directors in securities and shareholder disputes. His advocacy is informed by his work as a contributing author to Thomson Reuters’ Shareholder Litigation treatise, for which he provides annual updates and tracks the latest developments in the law.

Consumer Disputes

Peter defends clients in class actions arising under the Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act (RESPA) and in Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) and state attorney general investigations involving RESPA issues. He also advises clients on RESPA compliance, to avoid disputes before they arise.

Peter also is experienced in other consumer disputes, including those arising under the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) and a variety of state consumer-fraud and other consumer-protection statutes.

Sports Law

Peter also has significant experience in the sports industry, whether defending the National Football League and the National Hockey League against suits brought by former players, or advising and representing sports-industry clients in competitor or contractual disputes.

Personal Interests

An increasingly “former” basketball player, Peter is begrudgingly accepting the transition to less taxing sports, as well as serving as a youth basketball coach and general taxi service to the youth athletes in his household. (The jury is out on whether he will survive travel baseball.) An active musician, he plays the pipe organ for weekly services and sings in a local choir. He also serves on the board of elders at a Minneapolis church.