Complex Commercial Litigation

• Represented the owner of a 38-story office building in connection with a complaint seeking rescission of an agreement to sell the property and building

• Represented a client in connection with discrimination claims brought by former employees

• Represented clients in connection with various issues arising from employment contracts and non-compete agreements

• Represented a client in an action brought by a litigation trust for the benefit of creditors seeking recovery for allegedly illegal dividend distributions

• Represented a large, direct-to-consumer clothing merchant in an action alleging, inter alia, breach of contract, fraud and copyright infringement against a software provider

• Represented a developer in construction defect cases

(Re)Insurance Litigation and Arbitration

• Represented an insurer in a more than $1 billion-dollar lawsuit alleging fraud and breach of contract against lenders, which were issued credit insurance policies for hundreds of thousands of home equity loans and lines of credit

• Represented an insurance company in a dispute with Lloyd's of London syndicates and other insurers concerning coverage for a multimillion-dollar claim under professional indemnity policy

• Represented a cedent at a hearing relating to the reinsurance of annuity death and income benefits

• Represented title insurers in a multidistrict litigation (MDL) proceeding in which the insured alleged breach of closing protection letters and sought indemnification in connection with more than 200 opt-out cases

• Represented an insurance company in dispute with its insurer concerning coverage for a multimillion-dollar claim under a professional liability policy

• Represented a cedent at hearing relating to loss arising out of a policy's supplementary payments provision

• Represented a cedent in dispute concerning the number of occurrences in underlying asbestos, silica and priest-abuse claims

• Represented a cedent in dispute regarding whether third-party administrator expenses were properly ceded as allocated loss adjustment expense

• Represented a cedent in matter involving reinsurer's claim that finite reinsurance policy should be reformed based on mutual mistake

• Represented a reinsurer in matter involving the consolidation of arbitrations arising out of multiple treaties

Antitrust Litigation

• Represented a global engineering and construction company in the first consummated merger case tried in an administrative hearing before the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) in more than two decades

• Represented the marketers of sulfur-based products in an action alleging a conspiracy in the sulfuric acid industry in violation of Section 1 of the Sherman Act

• Represented corrugated container manufacturers in a class action, and subsequent opt-out litigation, alleging coordinated restrictions on linerboard supply

• Represented the world-leading producer of decorative surfacing products in a class action alleging price-fixing conspiracy