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When one of our clients has almost any type of dispute with another business, we are available to help. To give just a few examples, we regularly handle disputes flowing from mergers, acquisitions, dissolutions and other corporate activities; breach of contract actions; and lawsuits over technology use, licensing, and sale, insurance coverage, distributorship agreements, trade secrets, and “raiding” of employees.

Michael Lieberman, Shareholder, LitigationIn one of our more prominent cases, we represented a surety bond company against a major bank in litigation over approximately $1.2 billion in surety bonds issued to guarantee Enron Corporation’s gas deliveries. Our client and its codefendants alleged that the bank and Enron had defrauded the sureties into issuing the bonds. After a five-week trial in Manhattan that was closely followed in the financial press, we reached a satisfactory settlement.

Other recent successful representations included handling a matter in which our client, a beer distributor, alleged that a major brewery had defrauded it into giving up its franchise; suing a warehouse owner on behalf of a manufacturer whose goods had been damaged in the defendant’s warehouse; litigating and settling a “corporate raid” case between two office supply companies; and defending a venture capital firm in a lawsuit brought by a failed dot-com that the firm had funded.