Martin K Lovell

Martin K. Lovell is a member of Squared’s Real Estate practice, Business, and Litigation practice areas.

He represents clients in a variety of construction and development matters, including working with owners, developers and lenders in drafting and negotiating agreements relating to the engineering, procurement, construction and management of large-scale commercial and industrial projects. In addition to transactional matters, Martin also advises and represents clients during project construction and in dispute resolution proceedings.

Martin has served as first-chair trial counsel for a restaurant leaseholder in a dispute with its landlord over the rental price and property rights. In a major Chapter 11 bankruptcy, Martin served as first-chair for an oil prospector in bankruptcy over a dispute between a developer client and the debtor and a secured lender over lease rights under a joint operating agreement. Martin also served as counsel for a warehouseman storing oil and gas equipment in another major oil and gas bankruptcy and obtained a favorable workout with the debtor and other interested parties.

Other trial experience includes defending a mining company in a US$100 million Texas Uniform Fraudulent Transfer Act (TUFTA) case; defending a home builder in a one-week jury trial in a high-end home construction dispute (the plaintiff got nothing); representing the purchaser of wind turbines at auction, as plaintiff, in a jury trial arising from a dispute with the auction house (obtained the full amount of actual damages sought); defending a Canadian real estate business in a Texas court (dismissed for lack of jurisdiction (upheld on appeal which Martin also drafted)); representing a landlord-hospital as plaintiff in a jury trial against a tenant-clinic (obtained verdict of eviction); and defending a party to a distributorship agreement in a jury trial involving allegations of Deceptive Trade Practices Act (DTPA) violations and breach of contract

In addition, Martin represented a pipeline company in an interstate gas pipeline suit involving the issue of federal preemption and the limits of removal jurisdiction, and various state law defenses; went to bat for a group of executives over an attempt by their former employer to prevent them from starting a competing business; represented a drilling entity in two related lawsuits alleging breach of contract and patent infringement against a major energy company; and defended a media entity against claims that moneys it received for the airing of commercials were recoverable as a fraudulent transfer.

Martin joined Squared as a law clerk in 2013. During law school, he interned with the United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Missouri and served as a faculty fellow and teaching assistant with Saint Louis University’s School of Law, where he completed concentrations in Business Transactional Law and Taxation.