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

Representative matters include successfully reducing $49,000 demand in ABC Assignee proceeding to a $5K settlement.

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.

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.