Employment Litigation

In advising and defending employers and employees in high-stakes restrictive-covenant cases, we take a practical approach—always keeping in focus our clients’ commercial objectives and risk tolerances. From long experience, we know that our clients need fast, reliable advice as events quickly unfold from the moment a potential hire is first identified and contacted. Our clients need, and we provide, realistic assessments of risk levels associated with the various options available to our clients as we partner with them to navigate every step of the process. We are expert at expedited proceedings, and we have an advantage in the courtroom because our partners are not just litigators, we are lead trial lawyers, with a hard-earned reputation for winning difficult cases in court. Some examples of employment cases that our partners have handled are listed below.

Representative Matters:

Currently representing traders who Millenium Management hired away from Jane Street Capital. Defeated TRO application brought by Jane Street against our clients and Millennium. The TRO application alleged that our clients, successful traders, misappropriated a confidential trading strategy. Following expedited briefing and an expedited hearing, the Court denied Jane Street’s TRO application in its entirety and Jane Street then abandoned its PI application.
Currently representing Fairstead Capital Management against former employees and executives in actions alleging breach of fiduciary duty, misappropriation of confidential information and trade secrets, and breach of non-solicits.
Currently representing three managers of an investment fund in a confidential arbitration seeking to remove the fourth.
Currently representing Youbi Capital GP, a crypto investment fund, and its principals in an action brought against former directors and shareholders in action asserting claims for breach of fiduciary duty and misappropriation of trade secrets.
Currently representing asset management firm in confidential arbitration against discrimination, breach of fiduciary duty, breach of contract and defamation claims.
Currently conducting an internal investigation into allegations made by a whistleblower on behalf of a leading financial services company.
Won confidential arbitration on behalf of a senior member of a major bank’s financial institutions group who was sued by his former employer after he left that bank to join a competitor. The claimant alleged that our client breached restrictive covenants barring solicitation of clients and misuse of confidential information.
Won dismissal of breach of contract and tortious interference claims alleging that our client, the CEO of a hospitality group that manages and develops hotel properties, improperly disclosed confidential information to a competing bidder that allegedly used the confidential information to usurp an investment opportunity.
Won complete plaintiff’s jury verdict with punitive damages following a one-week trial on behalf of an entrepreneur and chemist, in a dispute concerning attempts to freeze him out of his lab testing company.
Successfully represented shareholder employees of the Sheehan Family Companies in a complex, nine-figure breach of fiduciary duty action, in which we defended against counterclaims that the employee defendants breached their fiduciary duties in connection with the management of the businesses.
Successfully represented a leading consulting firm in multiple confidential employment matters involving restrictive covenants.
Successfully represented co-founder of an investment fund in confidential dispute against the other co-founder when they “divorced” and the other co-founder started a competing fund.
Successfully represented managing director and senior executive of alternative investment manager in connection with move to a competitor.
Successfully represented co-founder of a private tech company in a confidential breach of fiduciary duty and employment dispute between co-founders. The matter settled confidentiality after pre-litigation letters and a successful challenge to a proposed refinancing package that would have improperly benefited one co-founder over the other.
Represented a technology manufacturer in a confidential investigation relating to employee misappropriation of trade secrets.