Garrett D.

Senior Partner @Varela, Lee, Metz & Guarino Llp

San Francisco, CA, US

REPRESENTATIVE EXPERIENCE• Recovered $135+ million in damages in an 11-week bench trial representing a general contractor against a software development subcontractor with causes of action for breach of contract and negligent misrepresentation. The initial engagement challenged a California public owner’s termination of the general contractor’s $100+ million contract for alleged default. After a 10-week trial, the final award included 100% recovery of the general contractor’s claims, a full defense of subcontractor’s $15 million in counterclaims, and recovery of approximately $35 million in prejudgment interest. • Awarded $6.3 million in damages, fees, costs, and interest by an arbitration panel on behalf of a general contractor in a dispute arising from a project to partially demolish and rebuild a glass beads manufacturing facility in Mexia, Texas. VLMG represented the general contractor against the project owner and conclusively prevailed, with every substantive entitlement issue resolved in contractor’s favor, and fully defensed owner’s $11+ million in counterclaims. • Represented EPC contractor in a multi-week international arbitration proceeding against mechanical subcontractor’s $25 million claims for additional work and lost productivity arising out of heavy industrial piping work performed on a $1.7 billion solar power plant.• Represented Canadian design-build subcontractor in arbitration proceeding regarding multiple solar power projects located in Ontario, Canada, successfully resolving subcontractor’s multi-million dollar claims against prime contractor for additional payment owed due to differing subsurface soil conditions and contractor-caused delays and disruption prior to hearing. • Successfully defended prime contractor against construction claims brought by Owner in multi-party private arbitration on a hospital project and negotiated settlement recovering over $10 million in delay damages for prime contractor and trade subcontractors.

University of California, Berkeley

BA, History

Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law

JD, Law