Experience Matters

Brief sentence defining representative matters.

• General Commercial

  Lead counsel for inventor of cellulosic fuel process in defense of business suit by a former investor who sued to enforce certain rights under an option agreement. Injunction claim by investor was denied; Order was issued declaring option void.

• General Commercial

  Lead counsel for close corporation shareholder against co-owner and president involving claims of breach of fiduciary duty and shareholder oppression. Favorable settlement.

• Insurance - Coverage and Bad Faith

  Defense of excess D&O insurer in coverage litigation with Directors and Officers of a major national health rehabilitation provider arising from underlying claims by individual and institutional investors alleging corporate and criminal fraud.

• Securities Litigation

  Represented defendants in claim of securities fraud. Case dismissed in our favor in matter of first impression in the Sixth Circuit.

• Securities Litigation

  Counsel for Respondent in the 2008 United States Supreme Court decision, where the Supreme Court held against private "scheme liability" claims under the federal securities laws. Public commentators call it the most important Supreme Court business decision in a decade.