Shareholder Dispute

• Obtained a favorable valuation of a privately-held family business; allowing our majority-owner client to purchase the 49% minority interest for $15 million: 60% less than the amount sought by minority shareholders.
• Effectively blocked a $4 million minority-shareholder claim against our majority-shareholder client; negotiated a settlement for 90% less than the amount sought.  

    Defense of Fiduciary

• Successfully defended trustee and executor against breach of fiduciary duty claims, avoiding over $5 million in alleged damages.

Insurance Coverage

• Won a $1.3 million settlement for a property valued at $230,000 from an insurer who had denied coverage for damage to our client's residence. 

Commercial Litigation

• Successfully negotiated nationally-syndicated cartoonist's release from restrictive right-of-first-refusal agreement. Freed our client to enter into new, more favorable agreement with a competing global syndication company. 

Construction Law

• Resolved a major dispute between our general contractor client over performance and payment of a multi-million-dollar contract. Negotiations prevented litigation, satisfying both our client and the municipality.