We represent our clients in their most important business disputes with zealous advocacy and strategies tailored to minimize their risks and achieve their objectives efficiently. We are experienced trial lawyers who handle business cases from investigation and pre-suit strategic alternatives to aggressive representation in court, verdicts, and appeals in both domestic and cross-border disputes. Because we are a boutique firm with deep experience in high-stakes commercial disputes, we often compete against large firms while being cost-effective and delivering value.
We represent executives and companies in shareholder litigation in federal and state courts and in arbitral proceedings. Securities litigation and regulatory investigations can put businesses and their officers and directors at risk for substantial injury, including monetary damages, business disruption, and reputational damage. Corporations and individuals involved in bet-the-company securities litigation need counsel with the depth of experience and strategies tailored to each client to protect both their legal interests and their business objectives. Our skilled team has experience in derivative claims, securities class action litigation, and regulatory investigations, including representing publicly traded companies in claims for more than $200 million.
Our team represents multinational, foreign, and domestic corporations and individuals before a wide range of international arbitral bodies in multiple jurisdictions. We have extensive experience representing clients in disputes administered by the International Chamber of Commerce, the American Arbitration Association (including its International Center for Dispute Resolution), the Stockholm Chamber of Commerce, JAMS, and FINRA, as well as in “ad hoc” arbitrations, including international arbitrations carried out entirely in Spanish. Our multilingual and multicultural lawyers are uniquely equipped to assist you in resolving your international disputes through arbitration.
Our team includes native Spanish-speaking attorneys trained in Argentina, with a deep understanding of Argentina’s ever-evolving political and economic circumstances and how they affect businesses and individuals daily. Possessing an intimate knowledge of Latin American legal systems, rules, and culture, we understand not just the language in key international disputes but also how cultural norms affect concepts of fairness, patterns of negotiation, and expectations. With this unique set of skills, our multilingual team regularly works in tandem with local attorneys in Argentina to provide strategic and seamless resolutions to cross-border disputes.
Being born in Brazil, our Managing Partner, Paula Aguila, leads our Brazil Practice. She helps Brazilian individuals and companies navigate the U.S. legal system, litigate disputes in U.S. courts, domesticate foreign judgments, and obtain evidence and assets in the U.S. for use in proceedings pending in Brazil. Possessing an intimate knowledge of Latin American legal systems, rules, and culture, our team understands not just the language in key international disputes, but how cultural norms affect concepts of fairness, patterns of negotiation, and expectations. We regularly coordinate with counsel in Brazil to effectively handle complex business disputes that have sensitive political, international, or criminal ramifications. Over the last fifteen years, our attorneys have frequently represented Brazilian nationals in U.S. legal proceedings, including representing a Brazilian citizen involved in the FIFA corruption case, defending a Brazilian citizen in litigation over real estate in Florida, and finding assets in the U.S. for use in a high-net-worth Brazilian divorce proceeding.
Our team of multicultural and multilingual attorneys has extensive experience. Coordinating with foreign counsel in foreign proceedings even before a foreign judgment or arbitral award is rendered. By doing that, we maximize the chances of that judgment or award meeting all U.S. requirements for enforcement and collection. As a result, our attorneys have an impressive success record in enforcing and collecting international judgments and arbitral awards.
Wealthy individuals often conceal their assets, even from those closest to them, such as their spouses, children, or business partners. They often maintain their wealth in complex corporate structures, offshore holdings, trusts, and other hiding places. Because of our extensive experience litigating financial fraud, our team is uniquely suited to uncover and expose financial schemes involving multiple jurisdictions and multiple lawyers of “asset protection.” For over a decade, our attorneys have represented multiple foreign individuals seeking information, documents, or assets in the U.S. to assist in their foreign divorce, probate, or business proceedings. Our track record is such that most of our petitions to subpoena banks for specific financial information to use abroad have been granted “in one day.”.
Because our team has the insight and expertise necessary to understand the often far-reaching impact of litigation proceedings, we strive for creative alternatives rather than simply jumping into what could be lengthy court battles. The pre-litigation phase is extremely important as it builds the foundation for a successful case, and, thus, we treat it as seriously as trial. Our team has decades of experience crafting case-specific strategies aimed at creating the necessary circumstances for all parties to want to settle and avoid litigation. And because most of our clients are referred to us by past clients, a creative, efficient, and early resolution of a complex dispute is always the best possible outcome.
Our team’s appellate practice has an impressive and unbeatable 100% winning record handling appeals. In other words, in almost two decades of litigating complex commercial cases, we have never lost on appeal. Cases that go to appeal face a new, distinct set of legal challenges, requiring a thorough understanding of the law and appellate procedure as well as the mindset of a judicial audience. Whether seeking to preserve a trial victory or overturn an adverse decision, our experienced team surgically navigates complex appellate. rules, selects the right issues and arguments to advance, writes briefs that focus on what matters most to appellate judges, and crafts oral arguments that compel a successful outcome.