When the deal breaks, you want the lawyer who knows how it was built.
About a quarter of my matters are contested. That is unusual for a lawyer who spends most of his time on transactions, and it is on purpose.
Most transactional lawyers hand you to a litigator when something goes wrong. Most litigators are reading your agreement for the first time. I am usually reading one I wrote, or one very much like it.
Not everything needs to be filed. A well-built demand letter with the documents attached resolves a meaningful share of these, and it is almost always cheaper than the alternative. I will tell you honestly which situation you are in.
What I handle
- Partnership, member, and shareholder disputes, including deadlock and buyout
- Investment and securities disputes, including derivative claims
- Real estate disputes, including post-closing nondisclosure and defect claims
- Construction disputes and construction liens
- Commercial contract disputes
- Pre-suit demands and negotiated resolutions
- Lis pendens and title-clouding issues
- Landlord and tenant litigation
- Federal securities litigation
Who this is for
Partners who cannot agree and need it resolved. Buyers who found the problem after closing. Owners facing a lien or a clouded title. Anyone on the receiving end of a claim about a deal they were part of.
Representative work
- Defended an individual against claims of breach of fiduciary duty in a federal shareholder derivative action.
- Represented a property owner against a contractor’s claims across two construction projects, negotiating directly with the contractor on the lien disputes.
- Represented co-owners of a short-term rental entity in a pre-suit demand against a booking platform that was withholding their funds.
- Represented a buyer in a post-closing dispute alleging that the sellers failed to disclose significant property defects.
- Represented a business owner in a dispute over ownership and recovery of commercial equipment, including negotiations with parties asserting competing claims.