Jeffrey A. Brauer

Jeffrey A. Brauer focuses his practice on commercial litigation and construction law. Jeff regularly handles complex financial, engineering, and technical disputes in state and federal trial courts and arbitrations. Jeff is experienced in addressing potential claims from development through discovery, mediation, trial, and appeal.

Jeff represents entities involved in cryptocurrency transactions in litigation across the United States. Jeff also represents lenders, non-traditional lenders, secured creditors, general creditors, and debtors in various proceedings including bankruptcy, receiverships, commercial foreclosures, and collections. Jeff’s experience and familiarity with these issues has aided his clients in not only getting judgments, but also collecting on judgments.

Jeff has represented owners, general contractors, subcontractors, and other construction professionals on construction matters for his entire career. Jeff works with clients at every stage of construction, bringing his experience to help clients avoid litigation, minimize risk, and resolve disputes early whenever possible. Jeff frequently advises insureds on construction insurance coverage issues. When trial work is necessary, Jeff has extensive construction experience before juries and arbitration panels. Jeff also serves as an arbitrator and brings the perspective he has developed from this work to help his clients.

Accolades

• Representation of a general contractor in a highly contested claim that it was wrongfully terminated by a steel mill on a multimillion-dollar project. Following a three-and-a-half week jury trial, the jury found in favor of Hahn Loeser’s client, awarding $3.5 million and rejecting the steel mill’s counterclaims
• Representation of an owner in a multimillion-dollar claim for improper work by a general contractor in the conversion of a long-abandoned warehouse into luxury apartments. The dispute involved engineering disputes about roofing, drainage, elastomeric concrete coating, masonry installation, window installation and HVAC design. After Hahn Loeser’s client presented its case in chief over two weeks to a jury, the matter was resolved on confidential terms.
• Representation of parties in a business divorce. The matter arose following the buyout of a former owner’s interest, who retained certain leasehold and income rights of the operating company. The matter was resolved on confidential terms.
• Resolution of a performance bond claim against an electrical subcontractor by a contractor in a nationally significant and time-sensitive public project. This matter was resolved on confidential terms.
• Enforcement of a foreign judgment for a large out-of-state investment bank against a highly visible public figure who took great care to protect assets. The matter was resolved on confidential terms.
• Representation of a receiver in an action in which a tenant of the receivership property surreptitiously engaged in criminal activity, including converting the property to a dump site and ultimately destroying property. All claims were dismissed against the receiver.
• Representation of several purchasers of secured debt in dozens of matters located throughout Ohio, frequently involving complex and novel means of collection avoidance, including frequent use and abuse of bankruptcy proceedings in an effort to stall foreclosure and collection efforts. The matters often involved the use of receivers in an effort to protect collateral and provide greater leverage against borrowers.
• Representation of an agricultural lender in a string of matters involving dairy farms throughout the Midwest. The matters involved related guarantors who structured loans to make collection challenging. These matters posed additional complexity because the health of the primary collateral – the livestock – had to be maintained. The matters frequently were litigated in bankruptcy court.

• Gleason, Brauer Secure Order Sending Crypto User’s Lawsuit to Arbitration
  May 16, 2024
• Best Lawyers Recognizes 87 Hahn Loeser Attorneys Across 53 Specialties
  August 17, 2023
• Best Lawyers Recognizes 75 Hahn Loeser Attorneys Across 45 Specialties
  August 18, 2022
• Seventy-One Hahn Loeser Attorneys Recognized by Best Lawyers Across Forty-Seven Specialties
  August 19, 2021
• Seventy-Four Hahn Loeser Lawyers Recognized by Best Lawyers Across Forty-Six Specialties
  August 20, 2020
• 26 Hahn Loeser Attorneys Recognized by Ohio Super Lawyers® 2020
  November 27, 2019
• Jeff Brauer Nominated to Cleveland Metropolitan Bar Association Board of Directors
  April 09, 2019
• 26 Hahn Loeser Attorneys Recognized by Ohio Super Lawyers® 2019
  December 05, 2018
• 30 Hahn Loeser Attorneys Selected as Super Lawyers
  December 02, 2016
• American Arbitration Association Roster of Arbitrators
  October 17, 2016
• HLP Client Victory, Tesar Industrial Contractors
  March 11, 2016
• 30 Hahn Loeser & Parks LLP Attorneys Listed in 2015 Ohio Super Lawyers
  December 08, 2014
• Brauer Honored with Community Service Award by Ohio State Bar Foundation
  September 15, 2008

• Speaker

  Ethics for Construction Attorneys

  May 21, 2022
• Speaker

  Ethics for Construction Attorneys

  April 15, 2021
• Speaker

  “Obstacles to Enforcement of International Judgements”

  January 21, 2021
• Author

  The Devilish Details

  February 18, 2019
• Speaker

  Sizzling Hot Topics in Professional Conduct

  October 31, 2017
• Author

  Practitioner’s Guide to Class Actions, Ohio Chapter

  August 24, 2017