Outcomes that speak to experience.

A client purchased heavy industrial equipment in the U.S. for a plant in the former Yugoslavia. Under a rarely litigated provision of the Uniform Commercial Code, we persuaded the federal court in New York to grant summary judgment upholding the client's revocation of acceptance and award damages — even though the unit had never been installed. Reported at Creusot-Loire International, Inc. v. Coppus Engineering Corp., 585 F.Supp. 45 (S.D.N.Y. 1983).

Defending a major French banking institution where an offshore liquidator seeks to claw back money the client received for share redemptions prior to the exposure of the Madoff ponzi scheme — an action consolidated with over 200 similar cases.

In a complex arbitration involving allegations of securities fraud, unsuitable investments, racketeering, conspiracy and more, liability was imposed against all respondents except our client — who alone was completely exonerated after weeks of testimony.

Representing beneficiaries of a large family trust for which no account had been rendered in over twenty-five years, we petitioned to compel an accounting and to remove and surcharge the trustees. The matter settled by court-approved agreement: the trustees resigned, funds were restored, and new trustees were appointed.

After partners diverted funds advanced for renovations to their personal use, we obtained, following an extended jury trial, a settlement terminating the partnership and restoring full ownership of the building to our client.

After a debtor purchased an insurance annuity jointly with his spouse to shield assets, we obtained a judgment — affirmed to the Pennsylvania Supreme Court — voiding the annuity purchase as a fraudulent conveyance. The judgment was collected in full.

Defending a major French banking institution against offshore-liquidator clawback claims tied to the Madoff ponzi scheme, consolidated with over 200 similar cases.

A multinational estate administered in France involved trust, estate and tax issues across New York, Maryland, the District of Columbia, Switzerland and France. We handled the New York phase, assembled the legal team for the other U.S. jurisdictions, and coordinated with Paris.

A French fragrance manufacturer terminated its U.S. distributor and invoked New York arbitration. Working with French counsel, we convinced the arbitrators that a conflicting French court order was contrary to French law; after a full trial, the arbitrators upheld the termination.

The Trademark Trial and Appeal Board sustained our opposition to the applicant's mark DALINI, holding that it infringed our client's trademark in the name of SALVADOR DALI, the famous artist.

Representing royalty owners whose payments stopped though production continued, we defeated multiple defenses and an attempt to move the cases to Venezuela; both U.S. cases later settled. See Reavis v. Gulf Oil Corp., 85 F.R.D. 666 (D.Del. 1980) and Phoenix Canada Oil Co. v. Texaco, Inc., 842 F.2d 1466 (3d Cir. 1988).