- Fraud
- Restraining OrderCTSW’s litigators are known for their experience in all aspects of complex litigation, from injunction, attachments, restraining orders and other forms of preliminary relief to motion practice, discovery, trials, appeals, arbitration, negotiation and settlement. CTSW’s success has also made it a leading choice of clients and bankruptcy counsel for adversarial bankruptcy proceedings and other specialized matters involving companies in distress.
- Corporate LawWe represent issuers, underwriters, and agents in a broad range of securities and capital markets transactions involving registered offerings and private placements of equity, debt, and various hybrid securities, as well as tender and exchange offers. We advise boards of directors, board committees, and executive officers with respect to compliance obligations and corporate governance matters related to the U.S. securities laws, Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, and stock exchange requirements. We work with corporate clients of all sizes on such matters, as well as the preparation and filing of periodic reports and proxy statements with the SEC.
- Mergers and AcquisitionsCTSW represents clients in all aspects of mergers and acquisitions. We have experience representing many different categories of participants in such transactions, including buyers, sellers, major stockholders, lenders, financial advisors, management, special board committees, venture capitalists, individual investors, private equity funds, hedge funds and others. These representations include both friendly and contested asset purchases, stock purchases, management and leveraged buyouts, tender offers, auctions and defensive planning, whether domestically or internationally.
- Business DisputesBusiness Disputes and Litigation: Pursuing legal action on behalf of a company or defending a company against one, proactive guidance to minimize the risk of litigation, recovering under a company’s insurance policy for losses from damages or claims
- Business TransactionsDespite our depth in life sciences, we are not a life sciences boutique. We understand the broader business needs of life sciences clients as they advance through stages of growth and pursue business opportunities. We represent clients in agreements for joint ventures, manufacturing, supply, distribution, and consulting. When clients seek or require investments to fuel growth, we ensure that these investments take place while protecting the business and preserving alignment with overall business goals.
- Limited Liability CompaniesCTSW represents clients in all aspects of restructuring and financing (venture capital, debt or equity), leveraged buy-outs and LBO financing, and asset-based lending and leasing. Our experience includes private securities offerings, convertible note and preferred stock offerings, mezzanine and subordinated debt facilities, bridge facilities, DIP financings, first and second-lien debt, and secured and unsecured financings. We represent individuals as well as corporations (public and private), partnerships and limited liability companies in structuring these deals whether domestically or internationally.
- Trade Secrets
- Intellectual PropertySports and entertainment. Our corporate work includes transactions involving investment in and purchase and sale of professional sports teams, and negotiating endorsement, promotion, licensing and service agreements with high-profile athletes, agencies and sports teams. In the entertainment world, we assist publishers, agents, and filmmakers, producers, and personalities with book deals, movie and television production and financing, the structuring of business entities and investment, intellectual property protection and licensing, and distribution agreements. Our corporate attorneys also work closely with our litigation team to assist these clients with resolving or mitigating any disputes.
- Unfair CompetitionOur litigators regularly appear on behalf of clients in intellectual property disputes concerning trade secret and unfair competition, copyright and trademark litigation, licensing and technology transfers, and false advertising cases. We understand that clients may lack the financial resources to undertake potentially expensive intellectual property litigation. In particular circumstances, we are prepared to share the risk with our client and, to that end, employ alternative fee arrangements.
- Employment ContractThe purchase of a minority interest in the New York Yankees, an employment agreement for an executive of another Major League Baseball team, and the purchase and sale of multiple minor league baseball teams.
- Employment LitigationCTSW is a recognized leader in litigation and handling employment disputes for individuals, multinational and domestic corporations. CTSW brings over twenty years of experience to handling disputes arising out of employment contracts and various federal and New York state wage and hour employment law statutes (such as the federal Fair Labor Standards Act), discrimination statutes, as well as disputes involving proceedings before the EEOC, New York State Division of Human Rights and the New York City Commission on Human Rights. Corporate executives and business clients regularly use CTSW to handle, prosecute or defend employment-related matters because CTSW’s employment team understands that, in this heated and emotional area, the goal is often to look for a win-win solution that avoids intractable posturing and non-business considerations when tempers flare. CTSW employment team’s recognized record in successfully trying employment-related disputes regularly makes for the resolution of these otherwise emotional disputes where the parties too often seem intractable.
- Severance Agreement
- Real Estate TransactionsCTSW attorneys have counseled clients in virtually all aspects of commercial and residential real estate transactions and litigation. We represent developers, lenders, architects, builders, tenants, and investors.
- Citizenship and Naturalization
- Green Cards
- Work VisasWe work with HR and talent management professionals on securing and retaining talent from across borders. Our immigration practice is a strategic resource to these clients, assisting with securing work visas (H-1B, TN, L-1, O-1, and others) and permanent residency (green cards) through employment sponsorship.
- Estate PlanningTogether with other practice groups at the firm, we provide a full range of legal services to comprehensively address the needs of our individual clients. We advise and provide solutions to high net worth individuals in the areas of trust and estate planning, employment and executive compensation, personal real estate acquisitions and dispositions and personal tax planning.
- Trusts
- BankruptcyIn most chapter 11 bankruptcy cases, the Office of the United States Trustee appoints an official committees of unsecured creditors to act as a fiduciary representative of all unsecured creditors as a group. In that capacity, the Committee enjoys automatic standing in all aspects of the chapter 11 case and holds a position of influence in the development of restructuring alternatives. If used correctly, that influence can lead to substantial improvements in recoveries to holders of general unsecured claims. The Committee also has the ability to investigate various causes of action and, if the debtor is unwilling or unable, to prosecute those actions on behalf of the debtor’s estate. The Committee hires lawyers and, at times, other professionals – at the expense of the bankruptcy estate and not the individual members of the Committee – to pursue the common goal of maximizing recoveries to the unsecured creditors. We recently established a benchmark, representing a Committee in negotiating and confirming a plan of reorganization providing a 100% recovery to unsecured creditors in a chapter 11 retail case.
- Tax LawEstate and tax planning for one of the world’s bestselling novelists over the last twenty years, as well as litigation concerning royalties a former agent claimed he was owed.