Litigation/Disputes

We represent companies and executives in high-stakes commercial disputes.

Matters
Our matters span enterprise-level contract disputes, executive compensation and equity conflicts, employment defense, fraud recovery, and rapid commercial collections (available only to legacy clients).

Results
We regularly engage with the challenging, the difficult, the impossible —and regularly deliver seven-figure equity recoveries, convert zero-value terminations into immediate cash settlements, and obtain class action dismissals without settlement.

In multiple matters, we have resolved contested balances within 72 hours of engagement, achieving recovery rates near or above 90%.

On the defense side, we have also eliminated nine-figure statutory exposure, collapsed multi-count employment complaints into capped liabilities, and shifted financial responsibility to co-defendants through indemnification structures.

Approach
Our approach is trial-oriented from inception: identify pressure points early, expand the opposing party’s risk profile across contractual, financial, and procedural vectors, and compress timelines to force resolution on terms that reflect the true economics of the dispute. Where appropriate, we restructure outcomes to improve position beyond the claim itself—securing additional value, enforcement instruments such as confessions of judgment, or strategic advantages that extend beyond the immediate dispute.

Plainly, we do not follow the default pace of litigation. We set it.

  • Negotiated $98,000 in additional severance—a 228% uplift, increasing the final recovery from $43,000 to $141,000.

  • Converted a $233K clawback demand into a $1.14M settlement payment—a $907,000 swing in the client's favor. Resolved in 7 days during a $10M company merger.

  • Settled a two-year unpaid loan dispute at 125% of principal, secured by a 250% confession of judgment, with a limited LLC release preserving all personal claims. Resolved in 35 days.

  • Turned a $0 severance termination into a $45,000 payment from concert venue Brooklyn Mirage.

  • Resolved a 10-count employment complaint with $150K in exposure—capping client liability at $30K and shifting 70% of settlement costs to the co-defendant.

  • Secured a voluntary dismissal of a potential nine-figure California class action without filing a formal appearance or paying any settlement amount.

  • Reduced a $49,000 demand in an ABC proceeding to a $5,000 nuisance settlement—a 90% liability reduction.

  • 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

  • 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.

  • 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 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.

  • 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.