Our Practice: Business Litigation, Trials, and Arbitrations

We try cases across industries, jurisdictions, and forums. We work on cases where up to billions of dollars are at stake, but from our new platform we bring value on medium-sized and smaller cases as well. Our substantial trial/arbitration experience informs how we prepare all of our cases and helps us win better settlements when settling is in our clients’ best interests.

General Commercial Litigation
Our partners have more than 85 years of combined experience successfully handling complex business disputes in federal and state courts in New York and across the country. Several of us also have practiced overseas, allowing us to bring a global perspective where necessary to best serve our clients. We have handled cases involving corporate acquisitions, licensing, outsourcing agreements, aircraft sales, ISDA swap agreements, a banking industry ponzi scheme, product liability and design claims, construction disputes, shareholder actions, insolvency litigation, antitrust claims, weather derivatives, insurance and reinsurance, bank credit facilities, and numerous court disputes relating to arbitrations. We have extensive experience with issues unique to cross-border litigation, such as parallel proceedings, forum non conveniens, judgment/award enforcement, discovery in aid of foreign proceedings and sovereign immunity arguments. Many of our cases have involved successful trial representations, and others have ended in successful resolutions prior to trial. We are currently handling disputes relating to the Lehman collapse, a Madoff-related class action, reinsurance coverage disputes, and other general commercial matters.

International Arbitration
We have more than thirty-five years of combined experience practicing in the world’s major arbitration forums and before some of the world’s most distinguished arbitrators. We regularly lecture and publish on current international arbitration topics. Our cases have involved large infrastructure projects, oil and gas ventures, corporate acquisitions, environmental clean-up, indemnities, license agreements, business torts, statutory claims, complex commercial contracts, and investment treaty disputes. Our successful track record reflects our strong advocacy skills, our familiarity with the different institutional rules and local laws, and our ability to choose the right tribunal for a particular dispute. Although we always try our own cases, we often work closely with firms across the world in co-counsel relationships that provide our clients with the local advice and expertise that they need.

Insurance and Reinsurance Arbitration
Our lawyers have helped our insurance and reinsurance clients with the leading industry issues of the last 20 years: asbestos, environmental, 9/11, finite risk, late notice, workers’ compensation and a host of problems associated with managing general agencies and pools.  We have won good results for both cedents and reinsurers in fraud and rescission disputes, some involving hundreds of millions and even billions of dollars in dispute. Other cases have followed from failed corporate transactions among insurers. We stay current with the arbitration community through regular networking and participation as faculty and attendees at ARIAS and RAA programs. Our broad experience and knowledge of the industry help us select the right panel for each case. We handle industry cases in court as well as arbitration, and we have a strong track record in insurance insolvency matters, including cases against liquidators and cut-through endorsement claims by policyholders.