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General commercial disputes

Boies Schiller Flexner LLP

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A go to firm for plaintiffs as well as defendants, Boies Schiller Flexner LLP‘s ’motivated and cohesive’ commercial disputes team has a successful track record in class actions. The firm’s broad trial experience sees it represent clients in matters from money laundering, data privacy and fraud litigation to disputes related to unconstitutional infringement on state powers and the obstruction of the Trafficking Victims Protection Act. Matthew Schwartz leads the team from New York, alongside Sigrid McCawley and Stuart Singer in Fort Lauderdale. New York-based Eric Brenner is another name to note, alongside Samuel Kaplan in Washington DC. James Lee in Miami co-heads the class action practice group and, also in DC, Hamish Hume and Scott Gant have strong backgrounds in class actions. Kenya Davis in New York is experienced in trials and investigations.
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Témoignages

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  • ‘They very much work as a motivated and cohesive team. This allows them to assign various tasks to the junior members while the client still benefits from the knowledge and wisdom of the senior members.’

  • ‘My experience with other law firms has been that they follow well-trodden paths and recite existing protocols whereas BSF is innovative and willing to tilt at windmills to establish new precedents.’

  • ‘The team in Miami offer a top-notch service efficiently. They bring a knowledge of the courtroom that very few litigators can boast nowadays having conducted dozens of trials. You can tell that each member of the team enjoys their work and their team member making it very pleasurable to work with them.’

  • ‘We worked with James Lee from Boies’s Miami office and his team. James is a unique legal talent. His command of the courtroom is astonishing, his legal strategies won at every turn, and he brings a joy and sense of humor to the case that makes clients, co-counsel and courts alike enjoy the case. He is ferocious in pursuing his clients' rights while somehow also managing to earn the deep respect of his adversaries.’

  • ‘Aggressive litigators; can handle almost anything.’

  • ‘Sam Kaplan (superb legal mind and strategist) Max Pritt (determined and aggressive litigator) Hamish Hume (excellent trial lawyer and strategist).’

Clients clés

  • NextEra Inc.
  • Delta Air Lines Inc.
  • UnitedHealthcare
  • Baltimore Orioles Limited Partnership and Mid-Atlantic Sports Network N
  • BTA Bank JSC
  • Class of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac Shareholders
  • Canna Provisions, Inc., Gyasi Sellers, Wiseacre Farm, Inc., and Verano Holdings Corp.
  • Servicios Funerarios GG
  • Percipient.ai Inc.
  • Panini America Inc., Panini S.p.A.

Points forts

Won a jury verdict on behalf of the City of Almaty and BTA Bank JSC against a former Donald Trump associate worth more than $32m in damages, including interest.
Secured unprecedented injunctive relief, estimated to be valued at $5bn, that requires Google to accurately describe its data collection practices, to delete or remediate billions of data entries related to private browsing data it collected, and to place further limitations on what data it may collect in the future.
Won an important Commerce Clause ruling for NextEra, finding that a Texas law giving incumbent transmission companies a right of first refusal to build new transmission lines discriminated against interstate commerce on its face.

Avocats

Responsable de la pratique

Matthew L. Schwartz; Sigrid McCawley; Stuart Singer

Autres avocats clés

Eric Brenner; Sam Kaplan; James Lee; Hamish Hume; Scott Gant; Kenya Davis; Jenny Kim; Michael Fay; Joshua Stein; Thomas Sosnowski; Pascual Oliu