Commercial Litigation/ADR

​We represent clients in all aspects and stages of commercial litigation and alternative dispute resolution, including breach of contract actions, commercial foreclosure proceedings, and business divorces.

Group Attorneys

Services

​We have negotiated, litigated, mediated, and arbitrated disputes:​
  • Involving breach of contract, fraud, negligence, indemnification, defamation, misappropriation, and unjust enrichment.
  • Involving commercial foreclosure.
  • Regarding regulatory investigation and enforcement proceedings by the SEC, FINRA, and state regulators.
  • Regarding collections and judgment enforcement.
  • Between suppliers, vendors, customers, distributors, and others.
  • Involving sales practice violations, including unsuitability, unauthorized trading, overconcentration, breach of fiduciary duty, and misrepresentation.
  • Regarding partnership, operating, and shareholder agreements and business dissolutions.
  • Involving broker-dealers, registered investment advisors, banks, hedge funds, and crypto companies.
  • Between employers and employees.
  • Before FINRA, AAA, and JAMs.
  • Involving COVID-19 liability issues.
  • Regarding equities, mutual funds, structured products, auction rate securities, residential mortgage-backed loans, margin, and options.
  • Regarding real property leases and other landlord-tenant issues.
  • Involving director and officer liability.

Select Client Representations

  • Counsel to several affiliated health care companies in multiple breach of contract actions against New York and New Jersey health care facilities, with a $3 million judgment entered in one such action.
  • Counsel to a mid-size Boston bank in all New York litigation matters.​
  • Counsel to a real estate holding company in the prosecution and defense of all commercial real estate litigations in New York.
  • Counsel to mortgage originators in multiple civil actions in state, federal, and bankruptcy courts seeking billions of dollars in damages. 
  • Counsel to a national bank in a dispute stemming from a former employee’s alleged misappropriation of trade secrets and violation of restrictive covenants.
  • Counsel to a crypto company with respect to commercial defamation claims asserted against individuals who were posting remarks about the company and its executives on social media.
  • Counsel to the founder of a registered investment advisor in connection with indemnification claims against him .
  • Counsel to various national broker-dealers with respect to alleged sales practice violations.
  • Counsel to an investment firm and member funds in an action for fraud and breach of contract to recover shares of a privately-traded company.
  • Counsel to a California-based "party planner to the stars" in its action to recover funds owed in connection with a Southampton wedding.
  • Counsel to a California entertainment company in converting an approximately $16 million California judgment into a New York judgment.
  • Counsel to an international clothing manufacturer and distributor in a New York breach of contract action.
  • Counsel to a receiver in the enforcement of a $750,000 judgment in New York.

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