BUSINESS & SECURITIES LITIGATION GROUP

Our Business & Securities Litigation Practice Group concentrates on business dispute resolution with an emphasis on unfair competition, franchising, investor claims, vendor-purchaser, mergers and acquisitions and intellectual property. Our Group emphasizes on a complete, early analysis of costs, objectives and potential outcomes so the needs of the business drive the litigation not vice-versa.

In business and commercial matters, we regularly handle matters involving:

• Unfair Competition
• Contract Disputes
• Real Estate Disputes
• Employment Disputes
• Business Torts
• Copyright, Trademark & Trade Secret Disputes

In securities, derivatives and civil RICO matters, our attorneys have handled:

• Securities Class Action defense matters
• Private securities fraud matters, including Rule 10b-5 litigation
• Federal claims involving allegations of derivatives fraud
• Federal claims involving fraud in synthetic derivatives transactions
• Securities arbitration defense work, including claims involving fraud, suitability, churning, and claims of excessive commissions
• Securities regulatory investigations and matters
• Civil RICO defense and prosecution

Cases. Our attorneys have defended and prosecuted cases in which hundreds of millions (or in some cases billions) of dollars have been involved. We regularly handle high profile securities, derivatives and civil RICO matters and have been involved in a number of leading cases in our fields. Our attorneys are noted authors in their practice areas, publishing book chapters, law review articles, articles in practice journals and legal newspapers and participate on advisory boards of leading publications, including the advisory board of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act Reporter. Lists of our attorneys reported cases and published works in their fields are detailed in their accompanying profiles.