[SELECTED MATTERS]
What the work looks like.
Representative disputes, described by industry and by the questions at issue. We do not publish outcomes, amounts or the names of the parties: a description of how a matter ended tells a reader very little about a different case, and rather more about a client who did not ask to be discussed.
Asset management
Trade secretsFiduciary dutyExpedited discovery
For the respondent
A dispute between a private fund and a former portfolio manager over who owned a trading model built during the manager's tenure. The questions were when the model became a protectable secret and whether the manager's later work drew on it at all. Our team designed the source-code review protocol and prepared the expert record on independent development.
Consumer goods
ContractEarnoutPre-trial
For the former shareholders of the seller
An earnout dispute following the sale of a household products business, turning on what the buyer's covenant to use commercially reasonable efforts required once the market moved. We handled the contract construction briefing and built the documentary record of how the business was actually run after closing.
Energy
Long-term supplyRegulatory litigationCross-motions
For an intervening purchaser
A disagreement over how costs were allocated under long-term supply agreements after a tariff change altered the economics for one group of purchasers. The issue was whether the allocation mechanism in the contracts survived the change or had to be read against the regime that produced it. We carried the contract-interpretation argument.
Healthcare services
AntitrustExclusive contractingClass certification stage
For the defendant
A private antitrust action about exclusive contracting between a regional provider group and a set of commercial payors. The dispute concerned market definition and whether the exclusivity terms foreclosed rivals or reflected ordinary negotiating leverage. We prepared the economic evidence and the class-stage submissions.
Enterprise software
LicenceAudit rightsArbitration
For the licensor
A licence dispute over the scope of audit rights and the way deployment was counted across a customer's affiliates after a reorganisation. The parties disagreed about which entities the agreement reached and what the audit clause permitted the licensor to inspect. We ran the documentary and technical record and the hearing preparation.
Family holding company
Fiduciary dutyBooks and recordsSummary proceeding
For the minority holders
A books-and-records proceeding brought by minority holders of a closely held holding company after a series of related-party transactions. The question was what the holders were entitled to inspect and on what showing. We prepared the inspection demand and the affidavits supporting the stated purpose.
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