Business, Partnership & Employment Litigation

Tenacious Representation in Business Litigation

Our firm is built on a strong foundation of success in litigation. We are experienced litigators and practiced trial lawyers: entirely prepared and unafraid to take cases to the courtroom when the situation merits it, but with strong instincts and abilities in arbitration, mediation, and private negotiations.

Our Manhattan lawyers have extensive knowledge of the entire litigation process, deep trial and appellate experience in state and federal courts, and considerable background in government agency proceedings.

Our Approach

We focus not on a high volume of cases, but rather on results for each and every client. Our team is selective in the cases we accept to ensure that we are able to work closely with our clients to understand their businesses: we live in the trenches with our clients — not on the fringes. We pride ourselves on high responsiveness, our hands-on approach, legal and business acumen, and commitment to delivering high quality representation at cost-effective rates.

Representative Clients

Our clients are engaged in a variety of business sectors in New York, New Jersey and states across the country — from real estate to retail to entertainment to financial services. Representative clients include:

• Established privately held businesses
• Real estate entities
• Investor groups
• Entrepreneurs
• Business executives and partners
• High-profile private individuals
• Early-stage businesses
• Publicly traded companies

Areas of Focus

Corporate and Partnership Disputes

We have been helping clients navigate and resolve difficult business and partnership disputes for nearly 25 years. Our experience includes the following:

• Breach of fiduciary duty
• Shareholder freeze-outs
• Interest termination
• Breach of contract
• Fraudulent conveyance
• Successor liability
• Securities fraud
• Restrictive covenant conflicts
• Debtor-creditor violations
• Shareholder derivative actions
• Trademark and other intellectual property disputes

Intellectual Property Disputes

We help businesses to enforce trademarks, copyrights, and trade secrets, and defend clients accused of violating intellectual property rights. We understand the complexities inherent to intellectual property disputes, and use this understanding to not only resolve existing disputes but also to advise on techniques to mitigate the risk of future intellectual property litigation. Our experience includes:

• Trademark and copyright infringement
• Copyright enforcement
• Trademark and copyright licensing
• Trademark enforcement and anti-counterfeiting