Sample of Mediation Cases

  • Mediated a wide range of contractual disputes concerning cross-border commercial transactions including joint ventures, agreements for distribution, licensing, development of software and web interfaces, fabrication of industrial equipment, and sale of goods. The issues concerned span allegations of breach of contract, breach of covenant of good faith and fair dealing, breach of warranty, fraudulent inducement, and negligent misrepresentation. Some of these cases have involved multiple parties, governing law and jurisdictional issues in connection with common law and civil law jurisdictions.
  • Mediated an eight figure contractual dispute between a Korean company and a US multinational conglomerate involving intricated technical issues arisng from the manufacturing and installation of custom industrial equipment for the oil & gas industry.
  • Insurance coverage and bad-faith actions in connection with first-party and third-party coverage issues. A notable case involved an action pending in NY State Court for over $100 Million in extracontractual damages arising from the claim handling process in a property damage and business interruption coverage dispute due to an explosion and fire loss at a bio-fuel refinery plant.
  • Mediated a dispute concerning a complex, multi-million web application development project involving contractual and business tort issues relating to proprietary technology for a financial services and insurance business.
  • Co-mediated a multi-party international construction dispute concerning the development of a $300 Million wind farm project involving one of the largest manufacturers of wind turbines worldwide.
  • Mediated a highly sensitive lawyer-client dispute relating to and intertwined with multiple underlying workplace sexual misconduct claims within the cable news industry.
  • Mediated trademark and copyright infringement actions and licensing disputes involving corporations in the technology, entertainment, fashion and luxury goods sectors.
  • Mediated dozens of labor and employment matters including age, race, and gender discrimination actions, harassment claims, retaliation and wrongful termination, restrictive covenants, as well as collective and class action wage and hour litigation matters.
  • Significant experience mediating breach of fiduciary duties claims, shareholder litigation, and financial disputes, including D&O claims of public and privately held companies and related insurance issues.
  • Part of the team that mediated claims brought by creditors of an international law firm against its former chairman in the firm’s Chapter 11 proceedings.
  • Part of the team that mediated dozens of shareholders’ class actions and financial disputes arising out of the ‘07-‘08 financial crisis.
  • Part of the team that mediated US litigation brought by the trustee of a bankrupt Italian multinational business involved in one of the largest financial frauds in Europe’s history.
  • Part of the team that mediated litigation matters arising in the bankruptcy proceedings of a cable television company involved in one of the most extensive and notorious internal corruption scandals of a US public company.
  • Part of the mediation team resolving a highly technically complex patent dispute concerning the development of microchip technology by a top-tier university research institute and a Fortune 100 technology company.