We represent clients in matters involving cutting edge legal issues with significant stakes, and sophisticated adversaries.

Against institutional giants, we have established a reputation for delivering outsized outcomes—producing $1.37 million financial swings in 7 days, increasing severance packages by 289%, reducing legal exposure by 80%, and winning landmark rulings in first impression cases.

Impossible is negotiable.

We advise founders, executives, and growth-stage companies in high-stakes commercial disputes involving contract breaches, business torts, fraud, compensation disputes, equity clawbacks, and other conflicts arising from complex business relationships. 

  • Commercial Litigation

    Business creators and corporate leaders navigating high-stakes severance, clawback defenses, or forced board departures.

  • Financial Services Disputes

    Institutional investors asserting rights, blocking bad-faith management actions, or protecting portfolio assets.

  • Executive Compensation

    High-profile executives, prominent public figures, and high-net-worth stakeholders in sensitive, high-value commercial disputes.

  • Government Investigations

    We advise and lead subpoena response strategy to third-party requests, including federal subpoenas and other administrative subpoenas.

  • $1.37M Financial Swing

    Retained seven days prior to the closing of a $10M merger, Lawson represented a founding engineer facing a pretextual termination designed to trigger an aggressive clawback of his vested equity. By precisely timing pre-litigation disclosures and forcing an emergency weekend Board resolution, Lawson defeated the $233K clawback attempt and secured 1,000,000 shares—delivering a $1.14M cash wire at closing and orchestrating a $1.37M total financial swing in just 7 days.

  • 228% Severance Expansion

    When a top-tier private equity firm terminated an executive under the guise of "performance" issues and offered a lowball opening severance of $43K, Lawson intervened. By dismantling the firm's pretextual narrative and establishing clear exposure under the employment framework, he forced a 228% increase (+$98K), securing a $141K total severance package.

  • $240K Liability Reduction

    Defending a Qatari-backed investment fund against a $300K placement fee demand from an Am Law 200 firm, Lawson mounted aggressive pre-suit pushback. His tactical intervention forced the opposing firm to abandon 80% ($240K) of its claimed entitlement prior to filing suit for a reduced $60K. The parties currently await the Court’s ruling after fully briefing dismissal papers.