Complex Commercial Litigation
The ownership, control and financing agreements made within the private capital arena often involve multiple parties and jurisdictions, detailed side arrangements, extensive modeling and sophisticated structuring — which means that when disputes occur, they are rarely straightforward.
Services
- Class actions and multi-district litigations (MDLs)
- High-stakes contract disputes, including matters involving financing, joint venture, research and development, and licensing agreements
- Disputes concerning corporate ownership and governance, including shareholder agreements, tender offers, proxy contests, consent solicitations
- “Business divorce” cases involving partnerships, LLCs and closely held corporations
- Breach of fiduciary duty claims, including derivative suits challenging the actions taken by officers and directors of publicly held and private companies
- Business torts, fraud claims, and aiding and abetting claims
- Internal investigations
- Alter ego claims relating to portfolio companies and their private equity sponsors
- Fraudulent conveyance actions challenging the validity of transfers made in connection with corporate transactions, including LBOs
- Trade regulatory and antitrust matters
Representations
Representing 173 partners of one of the world's largest law firms in a victory in a major lawsuit brought by a past landlord for over $200 million.
Representing the United Mexican States in seeking a declaratory judgment that BP Oil and other named defendants are jointly and severally liable for removal costs and damages, including natural resource damages, under the Oil Pollution Act of 1990 resulting after the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, where more than five million barrels of oil were discharged into the Gulf of Mexico.
Representing a national retirement fund in litigation pending in a large entertainment operating company bankruptcy in Chicago on issues arising out of the fund's decision to have certain company entities withdraw from a portion of the fund.
Representing one of the largest owners of private schools in the world in several matters totaling more than $1 billion.
