Avocats en Commercial Litigation

David Bondt

Partner David specialises in commercial litigation. He is noted by clients for handling sensitive, complex and urgent cases with a strong mix of tenacity and commerciality. David helps clients deal with a broad range of disputes including breach of contract claims, shareholder disputes and professional negligence claims. His practice covers general commercial litigation in both the County Court and the High Court including experience in the Court of Appeal and the Supreme Court. David advises clients in relation to intellectual property matters including contentious trade marks disputes, passing off, copyright, databases, designs, patents and disputes involving confidential information. He regularly advises clients in the High Court and IPEC (Intellectual Property Enterprise Court) including obtaining urgent injunctive relief. David has particular expertise dealing with Trust and Probate claims. His practice includes trust disputes, making and defending claims brought under the Inheritance (Provision for Family and Dependants) Act 1975, challenging and defending wills, disputes over co-ownership of property included in an estate, claims arising against Executors and professional negligence claims against solicitors and will writers. Recent Experience Bringing a multimillion-pound claim on behalf of a national retailer for breaches of their trade mark, copyright and passing off. Obtaining urgent injunctive relief for a property developer client to restrain breaches of confidential information by a former employee. Defending a substantial multi-million-pound claim for complex breaches of contract and implied terms relating to the Oil and Gas industry. Advising on a high value shareholder disputes including a claim for an Unfair Prejudice petition and relevant arbitration procedures. A £200m case brought against one of the UK’s largest ecommerce business. Defending a £40m claim brought under the Inheritance (Provision for Family and Dependants) Act 1975. Acting for the claimants in a multi million pound trust dispute described by the Judge as “the single most complex and challenging case he has ever seen in his career”. Advising on cross border I.P disputes including enforcement of judgments. All forms of ADR, particularly mediation and arbitration.

Orwins

David Bowker

Partner Partner-in-Charge, Washington DC Office

WilmerHale

David Bowman

Legal Director - Litigation National

Weightmans LLP

David Brown

David is the Head of the firm's national casualty liability and commercial & insurance recoveries teams. His experience covers employers’ and public liability, product liability, disease and motor claims. David deals exclusively with large loss and catastrophic claims, including brain injury, spinal cord injury, amputee cases and fatalities. He advises major insurers on the complexities of these types of cases and works closely with all parties to the claim to bring matters to a resolution. David's teams defend all types of personal injury and disease claims on behalf of insurers and commercial clients, as well as making subrogated and non-subrogated recovery claims.

Womble Bond Dickinson (UK) LLP

David Cantrell

David is a Dispute Resolution Partner and head of the Immigration Group (Ireland). He is recognised nationally and internationally as one of Ireland’s foremost immigration law specialists. His expertise in commercial litigation encompasses environmental law, anti-trust, business tort litigation, corporate law and shareholder actions, IP and IT litigation. He has worked extensively with leisure, life science and shipping companies and also financial institutions. David’s team blends creativity and business pragmatism to solve their clients’ Irish immigration and mobility challenges. With efficient case management and a depth of knowledge, David’s team assist clients with inbound Irish immigration issues including employment permits, entry visas and business travel.

Addleshaw Goddard

David Chakoleka

Partner

Mulenga Mundashi Legal Practitioners

David Crichlow

David Crichlow, co-chair of the Litigation Department, represents large companies in some of their most important litigation. He serves as lead trial counsel on high-stakes commercial, class action and bankruptcy litigation, with experience that includes nine- and ten-figure disputes. David has represented clients in multibillion-dollar RMBS consolidated litigation, fraudulent inducement claims with respect to asset purchase agreements for significant commercial businesses, and litigation in or related to the bankruptcies of the Caesars Entertainment Operation Company, Solutia, Enron and Refco. Clients that turn to David include some of the largest banks in the United States and Europe, major oil and industrial gas companies, private equity firms and large pension funds. His wide-ranging experience includes representing an indenture trustee in its $6 billion claim against the gaming company Caesars pursuant to a parent guarantee in the applicable indenture, the equity committee in the Solutia bankruptcy in its $2 billion claim against a former parent, and a Cayman Island hedge fund against a $324 million preference action in the Refco bankruptcy. David's class action defense practice includes his work defending an indenture trustee against a "bet-the-company" class action claim relating to a bond offering alleged to be part of a Ponzi scheme, and defending a US auto financing company against a nationwide class bringing consumer claims under various motor vehicle leasing consumer protection statutes. In over 30 years of practice, he has gained particular experience with clients in the financial services and life sciences industries.

Katten

David Cross

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Morrison Foerster

David Delgado

David is Counsel in the Firm in constitutional, civil, commercial and family areas, participating in proceedings related to the breach and interpretation of contracts, as well as in the execution of credit securities, likewise, he has advised foreign institutions and international companies assisting them in restructuring and bankruptcy proceedings. Likewise, from the perspective of strategic litigation, he is focused on the execution and defense of real estate and corporate projects, advising developers, investors and companies in the resolution of disputes related to the structuring, development and operation of their projects.

Kavanagh Gorozpe

David E. Ross

Antitrust Litigation; Commercial Litigation; Complex Financial Products Litigation; Creditors' Rights and Bankruptcy; Environmental Litigation; Intellectual Property Litigation; Mass Tort, Toxic Tort and Product Liability Litigation; Real Estate and Hotel Litigation Securities Litigation

Kasowitz LLP

David Elsberg

David Elsberg is a founding partner of Elsberg Baker & Maruri. David is a “go-to” trial lawyer with decades of successful experience trying cases through final judgment or verdict, as well as domestic and international arbitration hearings through final award. David is ranked among the top trial lawyers in the United States by a number of leading publications. Chambers refers to David as “fabulously smart” and “fearless”—as well as “very creative, thoughtful and collaborative” and “an excellent litigator with a strong commercial sense.” Chambers notes David’s “impress[ive] … ability to communicate with the court very effectively” and describes him as “strategic and understated, yet able to be as aggressive and effective a litigator as you will ever encounter.” Chambers also named David a “Leading Individual” in commercial litigation. Law360 named David a Securities MVP, noting his “artful and measured cross-examination style.” Law360 also reports that clients describe David as “aggressive, passionate, and a first-rate thinker” whose “ability to read people and think numerous questions ahead is uncanny.” Benchmark Litigation named David a “Top 100 Trial Lawyer” which is comprised of an “elite group of partners who have been venerated by peers and clients as being the best in breed at the nuanced practice of trial law.” Benchmark Litigation also named David a “Litigation Star,” describing him as a “master of thoroughness” with a “relentless approach.” The Legal 500 named David a leading commercial litigator, reporting that he is “highly regarded for his trial practice.” The Legal 500 also reports that David “displays particular strength in financial litigation, including major bankruptcy and securities cases.” The National Law Journal named David a “Plaintiffs’ Lawyer Trailblazer.” Lawdragon named David one of the “500 Leading Litigators in America” and “500 Leading Plaintiff Financial Lawyers.” The New York Law Journal honored David with its “Distinguished Leader” award for “great performance while demonstrating clear leadership skills leading to positive outcomes.” David represents a wide variety of clients, including private equity, venture capital, and hedge funds and their portfolio companies. David represents clients in disputes in a range of areas including fiduciary duties, corporate governance, control contests, corporate-entity “divorces,” crisis management, financial services and products, energy, life sciences, bankruptcy and insolvency, fraudulent transfer, and breach of indentures and other complex contracts. David is a veteran litigator in New York federal and state courts and the Delaware Court of Chancery, and he has also handled many litigations in other U.S. jurisdictions as well as international arbitrations. ‍Representative Matters Won complete dismissal of all counts for Sol Goldman Investments, LLC (“SGI”) in a dispute over contractual put rights. The plaintiffs, who hold interests in SGI, sought to sell interests back to the company based on a valuation determined by a contractually mandated appraisal process. Unhappy with the $1.8 billion value ascribed to the company, the plaintiffs sued claiming SGI breached its own operating agreement. The Commercial Division granted SGI’s motion to dismiss, rejecting the plaintiffs’ argument that the company must be bound by its own operating agreement even though the company was not a signatory to it. Won trial victory in New York federal court on behalf of U.S. Bank in an RMBS trustee putback action, which resulted in a recovery of $850 million, the largest recovery ever in such a case. Won trial victory after a one-week trial in the Delaware Court of Chancery on behalf of Athilon Capital Corp. and its board of directors in Quadrant v. Vertin defeating breach of fiduciary duty, breach of contract, and fraudulent transfer claims which sought hundreds of millions of dollars in damages, as well as a court order that would have forced the client to liquidate its assets and close down the business entirely. The Court issued a post-trial decision that denied all the relief Quadrant requested and permitted Athilon to continue executing the long-term business strategy that Quadrant challenged at trial. The press described this trial victory as a “resounding win” in a “literal bet-the-company case” that set precedent concerning the test for insolvency under Delaware law and that was affirmed by the Delaware Supreme Court. Won trial victory after a six-day trial in the Delaware Court of Chancery on behalf of Crestview Partners against billionaire William Koch, defeating fiduciary duty claims and enforcing Crestview’s contractual put and exit-sale rights in connection with Crestview’s investment in Oxbow Carbon. Won trial victory in New York State court on behalf of American industrialist Len Blavatnik on his claims that JPMorgan violated its obligations under agreed-upon investment guidelines by misclassifying securities backed by risky subprime loans as “asset-backed” rather than “mortgage-backed” securities. Won arbitration victory on behalf of Rosen Capital on its claims against Bank of America/Merrill Lynch which wrongfully prevented Rosen Capital from executing its options volatility trading strategy. The award was one of the largest investor awards on record. Won arbitration defense victory in a Texas arbitration awarding claimant $0, successfully defending against a $1 billion claim by a pipeline company arising from an alleged natural gas dedication obligation. Won defense victory in international arbitration awarding claimant $0 in a dispute concerning expropriation of exploration rights. Won dismissal of all claims against executives of Paulson & Co.’s MSR Hotels & Resorts alleging breach of fiduciary duties in connection with the sale of four luxury resorts after a three-day hearing in U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Southern District of New York. Won complete dismissal of claims brought in New York State court alleging that investment fund allegedly breached a letter of intent and an asset purchase agreement by declining to move forward with the purchase of a business. Represented the ResCap Liquidating Trust in Minnesota federal courts against dozens of loan originators seeking damages arising from the sale of defective mortgage loans, resulting in recoveries of $590 million. In connection with the largest bank failure in history, successfully represented debtor Washington Mutual against challenges to its confirmation plan in the Delaware federal bankruptcy court, which resulted in a $6 billion settlement benefitting Washington Mutual’s creditors. Successfully represented foreign representatives of several foreign funds in liquidation in Chapter 15 proceedings in Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York, the U.S. District Court, and Second Circuit, in avoidance, common law, and breach of contract actions seeking to recover about $6 billion in redemption payments in the Madoff scheme made to hundreds of entities.

Elsberg Baker & Maruri PLLC

David Erales

Partner

Consortium Legal

David Erickson

Partner and Co-Chair, Environmental and Toxic Tort Litigation

Shook, Hardy & Bacon LLP

David Goldberg

Offit Kurman

David Gopstein

Partner

Hecker Fink LLP

David Harford

Partner - Litigation and Investigations

Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner

David Harris

5 Wentworth Chambers

David Haworth

Partner

Ballard Spahr LLP

David Hennes

Partner

Ropes & Gray LLP

David Hitchcock

Partner and Head of Dispute Resolution

TWM Solicitors LLP

David Holland

Partner

Squire Patton Boggs

David J. Abrams

Commercial Litigation; Complex Financial Products Litigation; Environmental Litigation; Mass Tort, Toxic Tort and Product Liability Litigation

Kasowitz LLP

David Johnson

David has broad experience in high value, multi-jurisdictional disputes with particular experience in disputes involving allegations of breach of duty and fraud; dealing with heavy interim and injunctive relief (including freezing and receivership orders and antisuit injunctions); coordinating parallel proceedings across various jurisdictions; and utilising insolvency proceedings as part of a broader litigation strategy. Drawing on his background as an insolvency lawyer, David also has a busy restructuring and insolvency practice, focusing on advisory and contentious mandates. In this respect, he has particular experience dealing with cross-border recognition and the coordination of insolvency proceedings across several jurisdictions; contentious restructuring, including challenges to Restructuring Plans and Schemes of Arrangement; advising stakeholders in the insolvencies of financial institutions (including under the Investment Bank Special Administration regime); and dealing with high-value mandates which involve complex regulatory issues, including under economic sanctions regulations and the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002.

PCB Byrne

David Judah

Partner, Corporate Area of Practice – Corporate Law, Domestic and International Mergers & Acquisitions, Takeovers, Joint Ventures, MBOs, Commercial Disputes

Wallace LLP