Commercial Litigation & Arbitration

GuarantR and Julien Bonneville

Represented defendants in the action captioned MacDonald v. GuarantR, Inc., et al. (New York County, Comm. Div.) and successfully defeated breach of stock option agreement claim and related tortious interference claim on summary judgment.

SwissINSO S.A.

Successfully represented, SwissINSO S.A., in a Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution proceeding (UDRP) before the National Arbitration Forum, compelling the transfer of the disputed domain name back to our client.

Petroterminal de Panama

Successfully represented Petroterminal de Panama, which owns and operates an oil pipeline and storage facility in Panama, in procuring the dismissal by summary judgment of a $45M indemnification claim asserted against our client in the New York courts.

Tesoro Corporation

Successfully represented Tesoro Corporation, a major independent refiner and marketer of petroleum products, in the defense of claims, and prosecution of a counterclaim, in an arbitrated action. The arbitrators unanimously decided in favor of Tesoro.

Vitol S.A., Inc.

Represented Vitol S.A., Inc., an oil-trading company, in obtaining a $1.7 million judgment against Koch Oil on a summary judgment motion, representing 100% of the compensatory relief requested in the action.

The Mouawad Group

Represented The Mouawad Group in the Southern District of New York defending Mouawad’s late filed claims to share in the settlement of the Christie’s and Sotheby’s Auction Houses Antitrust Litigation.

Lockheed Martin CorporationX

Represented Lockheed Martin Corporation (NYSE: LMT) in successfully dismissing National Casualty Company’s claim that Lockheed Martin was barred from pursuing its insurable loss based upon a one year statute of limitation.