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Litigation
Litigation can often consume up to 40 percent of corporate legal budgets. Ineffectual litigation means companies have less to spend on strategic initiatives such as research and development or mergers and acquisitions. Our experienced litigators combine dispute resolution skills with industry and local knowledge to ensure your legal strategies directly support your business goals.
Whether you are a domestic, foreign or multinational business or a state institution, we can assist you in resolving all types of commercial disputes through litigation. With our international network of offices, we offer a fully-integrated, cost-efficient solution, with consistent quality of service in all jurisdictions and a single point of billing, review and reporting.
How We Can Help
- Administrative/public law and regulatory disputes - We represent private companies, government institutions, and non-government organizations in regulatory disputes involving administrative and public law matters, including regulations on building, planning and zoning; foreign trade; environment; pharmaceuticals; telecommunications; and public-private partnerships.
- Antitrust and competition litigation – We represent clients in antitrust/competition litigation, whether civil or criminal, including class actions and government prosecutions. We defend companies and executives in government criminal cartel investigations, as well as in third-party damage suits and other follow-on private litigation.
- Banking and finance litigation - We provide legal advice and service for litigation in behalf of banks and/or involving finance law and matters such as private and retail banking disputes, syndicated loan agreements, trust indentures, interest rate swaps, asset finance disputes, trade finance disputes, fraud and asset tracing, investment disputes, letters of credit and derivatives, commodity claims, banker-customer disputes, and recovery strategies.
- Commercial litigation- We help resolve disputes between business entities arising out of breach of commercial contracts, such as distributorship agreements; post-acquisition issues, business defamation, as well as officer and director liability.
- Construction litigation- We represent developers, principals, contractors, major subcontractors, engineering and architectural consultants, and banks with respect to claims under construction contracts or surety bonds.
- Investigations and business crimes - We have built a reputation of successfully counseling and defending businesses that fall under the government's scrutiny. Our investigations team includes one of the largest contingents of former US Department of Justice prosecutors, state prosecutors and SEC, and other regulators. We have extensive experience assisting companies in conducting independent corporate investigations, representing corporations, officers and directors in criminal investigations and prosecutions, and advising on SEC disclosure, self-reporting, corporate governance and internal controls issues. Our lawyers also defend class actions and other suits that often follow criminal allegations.
- Customs litigation- We assist in ironing out customs litigation, particularly with regard to clarification of and compliance with applicable tariffs and duties.
- Environmental litigation– We provide legal opinion, advice and service for litigation arising from environmental statutes violations, toxic tort lawsuits, regulatory compliance lawsuits as well as government and private environment actions and cross-border disputes.
- Information technology disputes- We deal with all kinds of disputes relating to IT use, involving privacy, security, e-commerce and online communications, systems agreements and negotiations, intellectual property issues, and more.
- Insolvency/bankruptcy – We represent secured and unsecured creditors in adversary proceedings and other insolvency litigation as well as debtors, creditors and financial institutions in liquidations and organizations. We also provide assistance in the resolution of lender liability disputes and other adversary proceedings related to bankruptcy/insolvency.
- Intellectual property litigation– We represent clients in enforcing or defending actions involving infringement of trade secrets and other undisclosed information, patent and trademark litigation and trade dress rights including domain name disputes. We also assist in the formulation and implementation of anti-piracy and anti-counterfeiting enforcement programs.
- Labor and employment litigation - We defend or prosecute claims of wrongful discharge, discrimination, harassment, unfair employment practices, and “whistle-blower” actions. We also represent clients in the prosecution or defense of labor or union-related issues such as grievance arbitrations or any type of adversarial proceeding including litigation that involves multiple plaintiffs.
- Product liability and product recalls - We represent consumers, manufacturers and sellers in product liability suits and product recall actions.
- Securities enforcement and litigation – We advise public companies on insider-trading prevention programs, reporting and other disclosure issues, codes of conduct and overall compliance with state securities law. We have represented clients in disputes involving actions taken by government agencies or other self-regulatory organizations.
- Shipping/maritime litigation - We represent ship owners, marine terminal operators, cruise lines and their insurers involved in shipping/maritime litigation in collisions, groundings, salvage and regulatory issues including admiralty, carriage of goods by sea, commercial contacts/chartering, national and international marine regulations, shipbuilding conversion and repair.
- Trade litigation - We represent clients in disputes brought before the Court of International Trade and other international fair trade bodies.
- Tax controversy – We provide insights on the substantial, procedural and evidentiary rules involved in the litigation and resolution of tax controversies in a bid to obtain the desired result and address all aspects of tax controversies from inception and management of audit.
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