Florida Litigation Attorney | Silver, Garvett & Henkel

Fredric M. Garvett Partner

Fredric M. Garvett is the managing partner and co-founder of Silver, Garvett & Henkel. He has an AV rating by Martindale-Hubbell and has been practicing law for over 25 years. He has experience in the following representative type of legal matters:

• Asset protection planning for physicians, accountants, real estate developers, professional sports players, entertainers, and other high net worth individuals and companies exposed to potential ruinous legal liabilities
• Advice to creditors including: collection of multi-million dollar judgments, claims under the Uniform Fraudulent Transfer Act, supplemental proceedings designed to reverse efforts by recalcitrant debtors to hinder, delay, or defraud creditors, piercing the corporate veil, defending claims for violations of the Fair Credit Reporting Act and the Unfair Debt Collection Practices Act, and efforts to limit and challenge Florida debtor exemptions
• Liability for accidental carbon monoxide death and the science of causation in such matters
• Remedying the financial exploitation of the elderly, infirm, and incompetent by obtaining relief from financial institutions and others that facilitate or participate in the victimization.
• Securities Law fraud in connection with real estate investments and investment clubs
• Lender Liability
• Various civil claims and defenses, including breach of fiduciary duty, breach of contract, violations of the Florida Unfair and Deceptive Trade Practices Act (“FDUPTA”)
• Real Estate Brokerage Disputes
• General representation of hotels and resorts
• Construction lien law
• Commercial Landlord\Tenant leases and disputes
• Theft of Trade Secrets
• Violations of Non-Competition Agreements
• Representation of Receivers
• Mortgage Fraud
• Lender/Borrower work-outs; deeds in lieu of foreclosures; short sales; and forbearance agreements

Fred obtained his Juris Doctor degree from the University of Florida in 1982. He also attended the University of Florida as an undergraduate and earned a Bachelor of Arts in Economics in 1979. After law school, Fred formed his own firm and represented Federated Department Stores and various of its subsidiaries, including Burdines. In 1989, he joined his childhood friend, Scott Silver, to found Silver & Garvett, now known as Silver, Garvett & Henkel.

Fred is married and the father of two sons.

Practice Areas

• Creditor Rights and Asset Protection
• Contracts and Business Transactions

Admissions

• The Florida Bar, 1994
• U.S. District Court, Southern District of Florida

Education

• Juris Doctorate, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, 1982
• Bachelor of Arts, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, 1979

Honors

• AV rating, Martindale Hubbell

Publications

• Author and lecturer on the topics of Fraudulent Conveyances and Contract Law
• Contributor, J. Ramirez, Florida Civil Procedure, Third Edition

Prior Representations

• Successful defense of a public company against a multi-million dollar, wrongful death case involving a claim of piercing of the corporate veil as to alleged acts of a wholly-owned subsidiary
• Obtained a judgment against a bank for failing to detect, report, and prevent the exploitation of an elderly customer that involved the withdrawal of their life savings, in cash, while accompanied by a stranger
• Recovered real estate “gifted” by an incompetent senior citizen to a perpetrator exercising undue influence over the elderly individual
• Represented a court-appointed receiver engaged to recover in excess of $25 million dollars lost by hundreds of victims of a Ponzi scheme
• Consultant to attorneys on methodologies of having a judgment debtor held in contempt of court, and jailed, for failure to return off-shore monies to the United States.
• Negotiation of forbearance agreements on real estate loans in a principal amount exceeding $100 million dollars
• W.C. Bass & Sons, Inc. v. Gilman, 677 So. 2d 338 (Fla. 3rd DCA 1996) (affirming summary judgment obtained by SGH; holding life insurance policy was exempt from creditor claims)
• Florida Lime Growers, Inc. v. Bloomer Plastics, Inc., 665 So. 2d 1151 (Fla. 3rd DCA 1996) (SGH obtained the reversal of an order striking a client’s pleadings as a sanction for the failure to timely comply with discovery)
• Vival, Inc. v. Syracuse Plastics of No. Carolina, Inc., 604 So. 2d 1 (Fla. 3rd DCA 1992) (SGH obtained reversal of a trial court’s order refusing to grant attorney’s fees pursuant to an offer of judgment)