Practice II · When the deal is the dispute
M&A & Transaction Disputes
Busted deals, earn-out fights, appraisal actions, and fiduciary-duty litigation — plus pre-signing counseling that keeps our trial lawyers' fingerprints on the contract before anyone has to fight about it.
How we practice it
Deal disputes move at deal speed. An injunction hearing three weeks out, a material-adverse-effect claim mid-pandemic, an earn-out that just missed by a rounding error — these matters reward small, senior teams that can master a data room in days and stand up in court the same month.
Because we try post-closing disputes for a living, transactional counsel bring us in before signing to pressure-test earn-out formulas, indemnity baskets, and MAE definitions against how each clause actually performs in front of a judge. It is cheaper to fix a sentence than to litigate one.
Representative matters
Fictional matters shown on a sample site — and past results never guarantee a future outcome.
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$3.4B merger closed on schedule
Defeated a preliminary injunction that would have blocked our client's acquisition; the deal closed six days after the ruling.
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02
$290M earn-out arbitration win
Represented founders of an acquired medical-device company; the tribunal awarded the full disputed earn-out plus interest.
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03
Specific performance ordered — buyer compelled to close
Won a judgment compelling a private-equity buyer to complete a $900M carve-out acquisition after a four-day expedited trial.