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Timothy J. McCaffrey

Counsel
Chair of Real Estate Litigation

Tim counsels clients on real estate development, acquisitions, dispositions, financing, leasing defaults and disputes, and commercial foreclosures. 

He's Chair of Eversheds Sutherland's Real Estate Litigation practice.

Tim also has extensive experience advising construction clients, including the representation of owners, contractors, subcontractors, and design professionals in disputes related to design and construction defects, project cost disputes, and mechanic’s liens.

During his two decades of practice, Tim has represented some of the largest companies in the world in some of their most substantial litigation, including private equity fund and real estate developers, publicly-traded companies, owners, and property managers in litigation involving their assets. He also has significant experience in civil and criminal litigation. His civil litigation experience includes class-action lawsuits, antitrust actions, and breach of contract actions in the securities, construction, health care, pharmaceutical, and financial industries. His white collar fraud criminal experience includes cases involving public corruption, mortgage fraud, tax fraud, health care fraud, public finance, and insurance fraud.

Before joining Eversheds Sutherland, Tim also worked on numerous internal investigations and represented clients with respect to government investigations by the Securities and Exchange Commission, the Department of Justice, and the Department of Health and Human Services.

  • Beat It or Never Surrender? Real Estate Lessons Learned from the Pandemic, March 30, 2022, Chicago Chapter of the Association of Corporate Counsel
  • COVID-19 impact on doing business in the US, April 24, 2020
  • Illinois
  • U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois
  • U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Indiana
  • Seventh Circuit
  • B.S., Indiana University Bloomington
  • J.D., cum laude, Indiana University School of Law - Bloomington
Timothy McCaffrey

Counsel

Chair of Real Estate Litigation

Timothy McCaffrey

Counsel

Chair of Real Estate Litigation

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