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Patrick Gillette.
Patrick Gillette represents businesses, professionals, beneficiaries, investors, and judgment creditors in disputes throughout Colorado. His practice focuses on business and financial disputes, professional and fiduciary misconduct, and judgment enforcement.
Reynolds Gillette LLC — Denver and Grand Junction, Colorado
Patrick has litigated matters throughout Colorado in state and federal courts and has represented clients through trial, appeal, arbitration, evidentiary hearings, and post-judgment proceedings. His experience includes business disputes, fraud claims, fiduciary misconduct, trust and estate litigation, asset recovery, and complex judgment enforcement.
Patrick combines substantial litigation experience with a deep understanding of commercial and financial transactions, business relationships, asset ownership, and civil procedure. Clients and referring attorneys often seek his counsel when disputes involve complex financial issues, closely held businesses, ownership structures, asset transfers, judgment enforcement challenges, or legal problems that require careful analysis and practical problem solving.
Over the course of his career, Patrick developed a particular focus on helping clients recover money and assets after prevailing in litigation. He has developed substantial experience involving judgment enforcement, fraudulent transfer litigation, and asset recovery. His experience includes matters involving fraudulent transfers, alter ego claims, nominee ownership issues, debtor-of-debtor proceedings, charging orders, receiverships, and other remedies designed to identify and recover assets available to satisfy judgments.
Patrick also represents beneficiaries, heirs, business owners, and other interested parties in fiduciary disputes involving trusts, estates, personal representatives, trustees, powers of attorney, and allegations of misconduct involving substantial assets. His experience includes disputes involving family businesses, investment accounts, real estate holdings, and wealth accumulated over generations.
Representative experience includes obtaining and enforcing substantial judgments; securing a complete defense award following a FINRA arbitration arising from the sale of a financial services business; defending a certified public accountant in a multi-million-dollar malpractice action; recovering disputed real estate deposits and commercial damages through trial and appeal; prosecuting fraudulent transfer claims; and representing beneficiaries and interested parties in fiduciary litigation.
Patrick believes a favorable ruling is only part of the solution. Whether the dispute involves business litigation, fiduciary misconduct, or judgment enforcement, the objective is to achieve a result that provides a meaningful benefit to the client. His approach reflects the philosophy that guides Reynolds Gillette: Built on judgment. Proven in trial.
Background
Education
Patrick received both his undergraduate degree and his law degree from the University of Michigan, where he served as an editor of the University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform.
- University of Michigan, JD
- University of Michigan, BA
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We welcome the opportunity to discuss business disputes, fiduciary misconduct claims, judgment enforcement matters, and other complex litigation throughout Colorado.