The Firm’s diverse civil litigation practice includes securities and commodities fraud cases, professional liability, products liability, bankruptcy, tax, false advertising, trademark and libel. Cases have included:

• Representation of Arthur Andersen in connection with the Colonial Realty and Sunbeam litigations.
• Representation of a partner of Arthur Andersen in connection with the Enron litigation.
• Representation of various issuers in the IPO Allocation class actions brought in the Southern District of New York.
• Representation of a 50% shareholder of a billion-dollar multinational manufacturing enterprise in connection with a shareholders’ dispute with the other 50% shareholder in courts in Delaware and Pennsylvania, as well as coordination of companion legal proceedings in seven other countries.
• Representation of a Colorado computer equipment manufacturer in two securities class actions involving alleged fraud in violation of Rule 10b-5.
• Representation of Allegheny Ludlum and its officers in a civil action alleging securities and breach of fiduciary duty claims.
• Representation of Tyco Toys in class actions alleging securities fraud.
• Representation of a British Virgin Islands company and a senior executive in a class action arising out of the initial public offering and secondary sale of its stock.
• Representation of major potato growers and their officers and directors in cases involving alleged manipulation of Maine potato futures.
• Representation of a major investment banking firm in New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) and National Association of Securities Dealers, Inc. (NASD) arbitrations concerning sales practices.
• Representation of a major international bank in connection with the misappropriation of assets by a New York broker-dealer.
• Representation of broker-dealer subsidiary of a major investment company in NASD arbitrations concerning sales practices for annuities.
• Representation of a major investment adviser in an NASD arbitration concerning allegations of unsuitability for a proprietary hedge fund.
• Representation of Latinvest Securities before the NASD on claims of unauthorized options trading.
• Representation of SEI Investments before the NYSE on claims brought by a member broker arising out of fraud in Argentine referred accounts.
• Representation of the Brazilian directors of an off-shore trading company against claims brought by Lehman Brothers (London).
• Representation of an alleged co-conspirator in a series of commodity manipulation cases growing out of the Hunt Brother’s corner of the silver futures market (two U.S. federal jury trials and supplementary discovery proceedings in the Swiss courts).
• Representation of a commodities trading company and its officers in a Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) enforcement action alleging manipulation of the coffee futures market.
• Representation of a commodities trader in claims involving allegedly fraudulent trading in the physical, forward and futures crude oil and petroleum product markets.
• Representation of major investment firms as both plaintiff and defendant in litigation in federal and state courts of Connecticut and in arbitration in actions involving non-compete clauses, loans and other employment law issues pertaining to registered representatives, fraud, breach of fiduciary duty, failure to supervise, unauthorized trading and unsuitability claims against registered representatives.