Business Litigation

Our litigators are effective, proactive advocates who understand that a carefully tailored strategy employed from the outset leads to the most efficient and effective representations.  We have the depth and resources to tackle our clients’ most significant disputes, and we have the creativity and ingenuity to develop sensible approaches to matters that may be less complicated. In every engagement, we take the time to learn about our clients’ businesses so that we can offer real world solutions to the unique problems they confront.

Our litigators have experience in all manner of commercial disputes, including anti-trust and unfair competition, appellate advocacy, class actions, construction disputes, environmental litigation, health care matters, insurance coverage, intellectual property, labor and employment, real estate matters, shareholder disputes, transportation litigation and zoning and land use matters.  We work closely with our partners in our transactional practices to develop litigation strategies that achieve results that make business sense.

Representative Matters

• Obtained trial verdict in client’s favor in one of the largest tax assessment challenges in Philadelphia’s history, resulting in an order directing the City to refund $63 million in taxes paid by commercial property owners.
• Successfully settled claim by multi-national generic pharmaceutical manufacturer for compensation from $442 million in bonds posted by plaintiff as security for preliminary injunctions entered in underlying patent infringement litigation won by generic manufacturer.
• Successfully defended a $34 million breach of contract claim brought by a minority member of a Pennsylvania limited liability company that owned a permitted landfill in Western Pennsylvania against the company’s board of directors and majority members alleging claims for breach of fiduciary duty, shareholder oppression and common law fraud.
• Victory by motion to dismiss, which was affirmed on appeal to the Third Circuit, in favor of a major bank in a securities fraud action brought by a group of shareholders in connection with the spin-off of a subsidiary of a large telecommunications company, in which plaintiffs had claimed over $30 million in damages.
• Obtained multi-million dollar verdict for Fortune 50 company involving breach of retrospective equity adjustment agreement by client’s co-equity sponsors in foreign power plant project.
• Obtained a permanent injunction barring the deceptive advertising practices and tortious interference of a business competitor on behalf of a national financial institution.