Litigation & Disputes
We’re problem solvers…who happen to litigate.
The founder locked out of the data room three weeks before an acquisition.
The creditor whose debtor is routing cash through an unrecorded web of LLCs to stay ahead of collection.
The company facing a seven-figure contract claim built on terms the parties never actually agreed upon.
The VP of Sales terminated shortly before their largest commission payment was scheduled to vest.
The B2B SaaS platform facing a systemic privacy claim based entirely on a hidden tracking pixel.
The small business who discovered former employees opened up a competing business with stolen trade secrets.
The company facing an emergency injunction designed to freeze its operations before the underlying contract dispute can be tested.
The institutional investor who discovered that a fund administrator had concealed discrepancies in the net-asset-value ledger.
The founding partner who discovered their signature copied onto an amended operating agreement that slashes their distributions.
The corporate executive terminated under false pretenses.
The company facing a claim for breach of contract from a vendor who breached performance terms.
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We represent companies and executives in high-stakes commercial disputes in state and federal courts, agency tribunals, and private arbitration. Our experience includes successful representations of plaintiffs and defendants across matters involving:
Breach of Contract
Business Torts
Shareholder/Partnership disputes
Joint Venture disputes
Recruiter Fee disputes
Equity Clawbacks
Fraud
Fiduciary Duty Claims
Restrictive Covenants
Trade Secret Litigation
Mergers & Acquisition related disputes
Board Contests
For more: LitigationWins.com
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We regularly advise employers on a broad range of matters, involving discrimination, retaliation, harassment claims, wage and hour disputes, and issues relating to restrictive covenants and trade secrets.
In severance matters, we outperform industry benchmarks. The industry average for C-suite executives across all industries is approximately 31 weeks of severance. We recently secured a mid-level private equity client 41 weeks—adding $93,000 of extra severance compensation on top of the original $43,000 presented. Where a client was terminated without severance or documentary proof for wages owed, we still secured a $45,000 severance payment, in under two weeks.
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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
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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
Representative matters include successfully reducing $49,000 demand in ABC Assignee proceeding to a $5K settlement.
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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 various strategic commercial integrations.
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Advising companies on third-party subpoenas, civil investigative demands, regulatory inquiries, and government information requests involving customer records, financial transactions, cross-border activity, and enterprise operations.
Experience includes matters involving and responding to inquiries from agencies and authorities including:
U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ)
United States Attorney’s Offices (USAO)
Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA)
Department of Homeland Security (DHS)
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP)
Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)
Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA)
New York Attorney General (NYAG)
New York State Department of Financial Services (DFS)
Federal Trade Commission (FTC)
State and federal grand jury subpoenas
Civil investigative demands and third-party document subpoenas
Representation includes document preservation, litigation hold implementation, internal fact development, privilege review, production strategy, regulator communications, and risk containment where the distinction between witness and target can shift quickly.
In the regulatory arena, Huynh insulates operating companies from the operational and financial exposure associated with federal government oversight. He assists corporate counsel in navigating inquiries and subpoenas from the Department of Justice (DOJ), the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), including the State Department, Office of Inspector General.
Lawson recently assisted a sovereign-backed fund with navigating a subpoena issued by the State Department OIG regarding a high-profile U.S.Ambassador who briefly worked at the firm. The matter concluded with no subsequent follow up by the OIG.