Bill Pentelovitch is a trial lawyer with 34 years of experience and hundreds of jury and bench trials, as well as dozens of appeals in state and federal courts to his credit. He has also tried dozens of arbitrations.He practices nationally in the area of non-compete, trade secret and unfair competition litigation, and is a leading authority in Minnesota in the area of ownership and governance disputes in corporations and partnerships.His wide-ranging trial practice encompasses virtually every type of dispute in which businesses can become embroiled, with a particular emphasis in the areas of non compete trade secrets, unfair competition, antitrust, securities, and financial services.
Pentelovitch has tried hundreds of cases over the course of the past 33 years, spanning subject areas such as antitrust, securities, racketeering, fraud, contracts, employment discrimination, banking, and intellectual property. During the past 20 years a majority of his cases have been concentrated in two areas, intellectual property disputes and disputes involving owners of closely-held business enterprises. The intellectual property cases have related to disputes involving trade secrets, intellectual property licenses, confidentiality agreements, and noncompetition agreements.
With respect to disputes involving the owners of closely-held businesses, Pentelovitch is recognized as one of the leading experts in the field in Minnesota. In a seminal case more than 20 years ago, he won the first major shareholder oppression case under the revised Minnesota Business Corporation Act, recovering over $33 million for his clients; more recently, in 2005 a court ordered that another Pentelovitch client be paid nearly $300 million as the result of shareholder oppression.
Since January 2005, Pentelovitch has led teams of Maslon lawyers which have tried seven complex cases to verdict or final decision, winning all of them. In four of the cases Maslon represented the plaintiffs; in two of those cases, he obtained aggregate damages totaling more than $7 million, and in the other two he obtained injunctions. In the other three cases Maslon represented defendants in intellectual property disputes in which plaintiffs collectively sought damages aggregating more than $400 million; Pentelovitch's clients were vindicated in all three cases and the plaintiffs recovered nothing.
Bill Pentelovitch - Law Firm Maslon Attorneys Minneapolis, MinnesotaCases & Transactions
Medtronic, Inc. v. Endologix, Inc., et al., 2008 WL 80353 (D. Minn. 2008)
AXCAN SCANDIPHARM, INC. v. ETHEX CORPORATION, KV Pharmaceutical Company, et. al., 2007 WL 3095367 (D. Minn. 2007)
CardioVention, Inc. v. Medtronic, Inc., 483 F. Supp.2d 830 (2007)
InterMetro Industries Corp. v. Jonathan Scott Kent, 2007 WL 518345 (M.D. Pa. 2007)
Curtis 1000, Inc. v. George B. Martin and David L. Bean, et. al., 2006 WL 2981305 (M.D. Tenn. 2006)
LeMond Cycling, Inc. v. PTI Holding, Inc., 2005 WL 102969
Afremov v. Amplatz, 2005 WL 89475
Unity Church of St. Paul, et al. v. State of Minnesota, 694 N.W.2d 585 (2005)
Lupient v. Londo, 2004 WL 117600 (Minn. Ct. App. 2004)
MedCam, Inc. v. MCNC, 2004 WL 1790184
Afremov v. Amplatz, 2004 WL 77851
Solvay Pharmaceuticals, Inc. v. Ethex Corp. WL 742033 (D. Minn. 2004)
Community Housing Corporation of America v. Alternative Building Concepts, Inc. WL 22999294 (Minn. Ct. App. 2003)
Haley v. Forcelle, 669 N.W.2d 48 (Minn. Ct. App 2003)
Watkins, Inc., v. Lewis, 346 F. 3d 841 (8th Cir. 2003)
Hogle v. Zinetics Medical, Inc., 63 P.3d 80 (Utah 2002)
Bennett v. Medtronic, 285 F.3d 801 (9th Cir. 2002)
Watkins Incorporated v. Lewis, 2002 WL 31319491 (D. Minn. 2002)
Medtronic, Inc. v. Shope, 135 F. Supp. 2d 988 (D. Minn. 2001)
Berreman v. West Publishing Company, 615 N.W.2d 362 (Minn. App. 2000)
Hedged Investment Partners, L.P. v. Norwest Bank Minnesota, N.A., 1999 WL 639283
Kallok v. Medtronic, Inc., 573 N.W.2d 356 (Minn. 1998)
Sulzer Intermedics, Inc. v. Born, Inc., 1998 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 7111 (E.D. Mich., April 13, 1998)
Medtronic, Inc. v. Sun, 1997 WL 729168 (Minn. App. 1997)
Hedged Investment Partners, L.P. v. Norwest Bank Minnesota, N.A., 578 N.W.2d 765 (Minn. Ct. App. 1997)
Cefis v. Cefis, 555 N.W.2d 333 (Minn. Ct. App. 1996)
Hillard v. Medtronic, Inc., 910 f. Supp. 173 (M.D.Pa., 1995)
First Tech Capital v. Alfred N. Koplin & Co., 1995 WL 38771
In re Hennepin County 1986 Recycling Bond Litigation, 540 N.W.2d 494 (Minn. 1995)
In re Hennepin County 1986 Recycling Bond Litigation, 540 N.W.2d (Minn. 1995)
St. Jude Medical, Inc. v. Medtronic, Inc., 536 N.W.2d 24 (Minn. Ct. App. 1995)
Rich v. Roth, 1994 WL 149408
Barry v. Barry, 28 F.3d. 848 (8th Cir. 1992)
Barry v. Barry, 824 F.Supp. 178 (D. Minn. June 15, 1993)
Morrison v. Northern States Power Co., 491 N.W.2d 675 (Minn. Ct. App. 1992)
Norwest Financial Leasing, Inc. v. Morgan Whitney, Inc., 787 F.Supp. 895 (D. Minn. 1992)
IBM Corp. v. Seagate Technology, 941 F.Supp. 98 (D. Minn. 1992)
Beaubaire v. Priorwood Townhomes Ltd. Partnership I, 1992 WL 320991, Fed.Sec.L.Rep.P. 97-284 (D. Minn. October 27, 1992)
Siedare Associates, Inc. v. Firstar Shelard Bank, N.A. 1991 WL 238330 (Minn. Ct. App. 1991)
Rosemount Cogeneration Joint Venture v. Northern States Power Co., 1991 WL 13729, 1991-1 Trade Cases, P 69, 351, RICO Bus. Disp. Guide 7697 (D. Minn., January 18, 1991)
Hodgson v. Minnesota, 497 U.S. 417 (1990)
Grossman v. American Family Mutual Insurance Company, 461 N.W.2d 489 (Minn. Ct. App. 1990)
Medtronic, Inc. v. Eli Lilly & Co., 1990 WL 61161
In re Endotronics, Inc., 1990 WL 29769
Rosenberg v. Pillsbury Co., 718 F.Supp. 1146 (S.D.N.Y. 1989)
Carlock v. Pillsbury Co., 719 F.Supp. 791 (D. Minn 1989)
Minnesota Vikings Football Club, Inc. v. Metropolitan Council, 289 N.W.2d 426 (Minn. 1979)
