Represented a surety and large specialty contractor concerning claims for payment that followed the cancellation of a 1 million square foot manufacturing project at roughly 80% completion. A subcontractor and supplier, based upon a written assignment, pursued claims against our contractor client's surety, despite a "pay-if-paid" (precondition to payment) provision in the parties' contract. This was an issue of first impression in Indiana. On behalf of the surety, we succeeded in obtaining summary judgment at the District Court level, both as to the enforcement of the pay-if-paid provision and the right of a surety to assert it as a defense to a bond claim. The Seventh Circuit affirmed the District Court’s holding.