Disputes

We represent Fortune 500 companies and executives in high-stakes commercial disputes in state and federal courts, agency tribunals, and private arbitration.

Our experience includes successful representations in matters involving:

• Breach of contract and business tort claims

• Shareholder, partnership, and joint venture disputes

• Equity Clawback disputes

• Fraud, misrepresentation, and fiduciary duty claims

• Restrictive covenant and trade secret litigation

• Disputes arising from mergers, acquisitions, and earn-outs

Our team brings deep experience to disputes involving financial transactions and lending relationships, including:

• Lender liability and borrower disputes

• Enforcement of loan agreements, guarantees, and security interests

• Intercreditor and priority disputes

• Workout-related litigation and post-default enforcement actions

• Claims arising from structured finance transactions

Financial distress demands swift, strategic action. We provide efficient and practical counsel across:

• Claims arising from restructurings and workouts

• Fraudulent transfer and preference actions

• Asset recovery and judgment enforcement

• Creditor-debtor disputes outside of formal bankruptcy proceedings

We regularly advise employers on a broad range of matters, such as discrimination, retaliation, harassment claims, wage and hour disputes, and issues relating to restrictive covenants and trade secrets.

We routinely represent executives and employees in severance negotiations, delivering outcomes that materially exceed both initial offers and market benchmarks. In one recent matter, where C-suite executives average approximately 31 weeks of severance, we secured 41 weeks—converting a $43,000 offer into a $141,000 payout, a $98,000 increase (approximately 228% above the initial offer).Where a client was terminated from the concert venue Brooklyn Mirage without severance or documentary proof for wages owed, we still secured a $45,000 payment from the venue within two weeks time.

We serve as deal counsel for businesses navigating complex commercial agreements, from enterprise-level partnerships to multi-party software integrations, including:

• Intellectual Property Ownership – Securing client ownership of custom-developed technology and clearly defining IP boundaries between proprietary codebases and stand-alone deliverables.

• Revenue Structuring – Drafting and negotiating revenue share arrangements, including split API-powered transaction models and tiered purchase-based commission structures.

• Liability & Risk Management – Identifying unapproved liability exposure introduced during contract execution and negotiating favorable indemnity caps and technical support penalty structures to contain financial risk.

Representative experience includes serving as deal counsel for Easyship Inc. in its Enterprise Agreement with Squarespace, Inc., and in the negotiation of a Master Services Agreement and multiple Statements of Work governing a strategic commercial integration.

We counsel businesses on the full spectrum of regulatory and compliance matters, from front-end contract structuring to internal governance frameworks and government inquiry management.

• Regulatory & Compliance Frameworks – Developing internal compliance infrastructure for businesses operating in regulated industries, including:

  • Subpoena-response protocols and workflow playbooks governing DOJ, FDA/OCI, and HSI inquiries, including management of 18 U.S.C. § 2705(b) gag orders

  • KYC/AML framework overhauls with tiered risk-monitoring for high-risk product and shipping categories

  • Modernization of public-facing Terms of Service for ADA compliance and law enforcement cooperation