Lead Counsel Experience

• Lead counsel for real estate consultant The Townsend Group in a billion-dollar fiduciary duty lawsuit brought by Dallas Police and Fire Pension System
• Lead counsel for Lennar Corp., the largest homebuilder in the US, in a sprawling environmental case alleging cleanup fraud by a Navy contractor at the former Hunters Point shipyard in San Francisco
• Co-lead counsel in a precedent-setting music antitrust lawsuit on behalf of Irving Azoff’s Global Music Rights organization—which represents songwriters from Drake to Bruce Springsteen—against the Radio Music Licensing Committee
• Lead counsel for ThreeSixty Brands Group in trademark and contract lawsuits over licensing rights to the iconic Sharper Image brand
• Lead trial counsel on behalf of championship boxers Tyson Fury and Manny Pacquiao and boxing promotion giant Top Rank in a variety of contractual matters, including a precedent-setting knockout victory against claims that the 2015 “Fight of the Century” fell short of expectations
• Lead trial counsel for Lennar Corp. in US$500 million trademark lawsuit brought by media company
• Lead counsel for Madison Square Garden in its successful defense against a highly publicized lawsuit brought by a boxer severely injured while participating in a match at “The Garden”
• Lead counsel for hospitality whiz Sam Nazarian and his company sbe entertainment in US$50 million trademark lawsuit over the rights to the mark “Luxe”
• Lead counsel for Lee Yong-dae, South Korean badminton gold medalist, in a successful appeal to the Court of Arbitration of Sport reversing a doping suspension
• Lead counsel for movie theater giant AMC Entertainment in a US$200 million lawsuit concerning the technology behind buying movie tickets online
• Trial counsel for global apparel brand Guess? Inc. in trademark dispute with Gucci
• Lead counsel for global agricultural giant Agrium, Inc. (now Nutrien) in a US$100+ million breach of contract and interference lawsuit involving “organic” fertilizer; and co-lead counsel for Agrium in a $500 million antitrust conspiracy lawsuit involving the fertilizer component potash
• Trial counsel for Hollywood Foreign Press Association in dispute over rights to the Golden Globes against dick clark production
• Lead counsel for TOKYOPOP, Inc., one of the world’s top producers of anime, in successful arbitration against primary distributor for breach of contract and fraud

Other Experience

• Entertainment and Media
• Fox Corp. in precedent-setting successful litigation against Netflix for poaching key executives
• The Walt Disney Company in profit participation, First Amendment, and defamation disputes
• Miramax Films in a royalty and accounting dispute involving a portfolio of popular motion pictures
• Motown Records and founder Berry Gordy in successful malicious prosecution and royalty dispute lawsuit against former Motown songwriters and producers
• Rimrock Capital in connection with accounting and royalty disputes
• Sony Pictures in a credit and rights dispute concerning the movie “Spider-Man”
• Colorado detective and author Steve Thomas in a libel lawsuit brought by the family of JonBenet Ramsey
• Italian moviemaker Vittorio Cecchi Gori in a high-profile “palimony” case
• The Weinstein Company on various disputes concerning economics and credit rights to popular films
• Sports
• Numerous boxers and mixed martial artists, including Antonio “the Tijuana Tornado” Margarito, Miguel Angel Cotto, and Timothy “Desert Storm” Bradley in contract and regulatory matters before State Athletic Commissions
• Major League Baseball player in business dispute with music agent
• HBO in disputes concerning the broadcast of championship fights
• Intellectual Property
• ABC, Inc. in a first-of-its-kind copyright class action involving the use of music on daytime television
• DGE Entertainment in various intellectual property matters
• Guess? Inc. in multiple trademark matters, including in an arbitration against former licensees of the “Baby Guess” line
• Chinese manufacturing giant Midea in intellectual property and breach of contract dispute against a domestic distributor of products
• Sirius XM satellite in lawsuits about a claimed performance right for sound recordings made before 1972
• Environmental / Regulatory
• Colony Capital (now Digital Bridge) and portfolio companies in matters ranging from a tax investigation in Sardinia to ERISA claims related to sale of an investment in a gaming property
• ACE Insurance in separate coverage matters originating from environmental contamination at California sites
• Agrium, Inc. in connection with environmental monitoring and cleanup and cost recovery actions in the Western United States
• Employment
• Represent several national employers in labor and employment class actions
• Lead lawyer in internal investigations concerning allegations of executive misconduct
• Pharmaceutical
• Amylin Pharmaceuticals in sweeping class action filed concerning groundbreaking insulin medication Byetta
• Pharmaceutical service provider Omnicare in a dispute related to its acquisition of major California distributor of medications
• Criminal
• Jeffrey Skilling, the former CEO of Enron, in his criminal trial, at sentencing, and on appeal
• City of Redondo Beach in obtaining a conviction in a week-long criminal jury trial
• The Marciano Brothers, the founders of Guess, in prosecuting a scheme involving a Ponzi scheme of wine futures