We handle a wide variety of high-profile, complex litigation for major corporations and leading financial institutions. Our practice is national in scope, with appearances in state and federal courts at both trial and appellate levels, as well as in arbitrations and mediations. We have a leading practice representing corporations or other entities in state and federal regulatory and criminal investigations. Many of our litigators served as law clerks in federal or state courts, and several distinguished themselves as trial lawyers in U.S. Attorneys' Offices or as enforcement attorneys at the SEC.

We are considered one of the leading transaction and takeover litigation firms in the country, having handled many of the seminal cases in Delaware state courts and elsewhere establishing U.S. takeover law. We have successfully enforced a merger agreement between Tyson and IBP in a precedent-setting case involving whether specific performance was possible in a multi-billion dollar merger. More recently, we have handled a number of matters involving disputes over material adverse change clauses in merger agreements with representations including: Bank of America, JPMorgan Chase and JC Flowers in litigation arising out of their proposed acquisition of Sallie Mae; and ADVO in a trial concerning claims brought by Valassis to invalidate a merger agreement. As mergers have become an international phenomenon, our litigation practice has become international in scope. We successfully represented Bank of America in litigation arising out of its agreement to buy LaSalle Bank from ABN AMRO that ultimately went before the Dutch Supreme Court, and we represented Acciona in successfully fending off a hostile takeover attempt by E.ON. Other recent litigations include representation of: JPMorgan Chase in shareholder litigation arising out of its acquisition of Bear Stearns, Barry Diller and IAC/InterActiveCorp in connection with Liberty Media’s challenge to the proposed spin-off of four IAC subsidiaries; Countrywide in litigation brought by shareholders challenging its merger with Bank of America; Goldman Sachs in expedited and continuing litigation concerning the multi-billion dollar LBO of Kinder Morgan; and Bank of America in litigation brought by shareholders challenging its merger with Merrill Lynch.

Our firm handles high-stakes litigation matters and other high-profile corporate crises. For example, we represented Silverstein Properties, the 99-year lessee of the World Trade Center, in litigation against more than 20 insurance companies to recover losses incurred on 9/11/01, establishing Silverstein’s right to recover $4.6 billion. Other recent representations include: the National Basketball Association, which turned to us after it was confronted with a referee's admission that he placed bets on NBA games; the National Football League, which retained us to handle litigation with EchoStar Satellite relating to the unprecedented three-network simulcast of the 2007 NFL season-ending game between the New England Patriots and New York Giants, and Mattel, which is relying on us for advice in connection with derivative actions arising from its recall of toys made in China.

We have one of the leading white-collar practices in the United States. These matters often are highly confidential. They have included successful representations of financial institutions, pharmaceutical companies and other enterprises in criminal and regulatory investigations, and several non-prosecution agreements for El Paso, Tommy Hilfiger and PNC, as well as settlements of other major SEC, NY Attorney General and U.S. DOJ investigations. Current investigations being handled by us include potential allegations of accounting and securities fraud, tax fraud, criminal antitrust violations, foreign corrupt practices act violations and other issues on behalf of U.S. and foreign entities.

Other leading practice areas include: bankruptcy litigation, representing Campbell Soup in successfully defending a trial and subsequent appeal of a $500 million fraudulent conveyance and breach of fiduciary duty lawsuit; media licensing litigation, representing Mexican television producer Televisa in a dispute with Univision over a license for Spanish television and Internet programming; and shareholder class actions and derivative actions. We have defended a number of major companies and their officers and directors, including Sears, Morgan Stanley, Bausch & Lomb, Avon, Maytag, Allied Irish Group, Novartis, Lazard, Newmont Mining, IAC/InterActiveCorp, PNC, North Fork Bancorp, Schering-Plough, National Australia Bank, RenaissanceRe Holdings, Tommy Hilfiger, Ambac and Monster Worldwide.