Sandak Hennessey & Greco LLP Stamford, Connecticut Real Estate, Commercial Litigation and Personal Injury Lawyers
- Our lawyers obtained a $35 million prejudgment remedy for a large hedge fund against an international investment bank in a case relating to fraudulent non-disclosure in connection with the sale of complicated securities known as collateralized debt obligations or CDOS. This case also involves national financial ratings agencies and is directly tied to the 2008 financial crisis.
- In January 2008, two of our trial lawyers prevailed in an eight day arbitration hearing in which a former company founder sought to breach his non-compete agreement to form a business competing with the firm's client. The arbitrator confirmed all of our clients contractual rights, enforced the non-compete and terminated the founder's remaining claims to our clients' business.
- Our attorneys recently handed a complicated Connecticut Franchise Act matter on behalf of a distributor seeking to stop the termination of its distributorship by a major manufacturer of soft drinks.
- In February 2006 our attorneys obtained a jury verdict in the United States District Court of more than $1.7 million for a group of toy designers after one of their product concepts was misappropriated by a national toy company.
- Our attorneys successfully litigated to conclusion a complex arbitration between two Fortune 500 building products companies involving claims and counterclaims under a long term supply agreement. The arbitration panel issued a significant ruling in favor of our client.
- In a court trial before the Connecticut Complex Litigation Docket in Stamford, our attorneys prevailed and vindicated the rights of the true owner of a multi million dollar original Andy Warhol painting against claims of prior owner who alleged fraud and misappropriation.
- Our attorneys successfully litigated in United States District Court a case involving competing rights to the intellectual property associated with a nationally marketed line of plush toys. The court ruled for our client.
- In a case involving a claim for breach of an exclusive distributorship agreement, our attorneys secured in United States District Court a $1.378 million judgment for our client, an importer of distilled spirits, against a bottler of scotch whiskey products.
- Our attorneys have represented landlords in large complex bankruptcy proceedings, including the Kmart, Ames, Caldor’s and Pergament bankruptcies, in connection with the enforcement of claims for the payment of administrative expenses and breach of lease damages and in connection with contested proceedings involving the proposed assumption and assignment of our clients’ leases.
- Our attorneys negotiated a multimillion dollar settlement on behalf of a purchaser of industrial batteries after five days of trial in United States District Court in which the parties litigated complex product specification and performance issues.
- Before the Connecticut Complex Litigation Docket in Stamford our attorneys won summary judgment for a national insurer in a multimillion dollar construction defect coverage case.
- Our attorneys obtained a jury verdict in excess of $1 million in state court in favor of a property owner whose property was contaminated by an oil spill. The case involved complicated environmental and valuation issues.
- In an international arbitration, our attorneys obtained a nearly $2 million award for a domestic based company on a contract concerning the sale of a cable television system in El Salvador.
- Our attorneys obtained a 60% reduction in property taxes for the owner of a flagship financial building owned by a pension fund in Greenwich, Connecticut.
- Our attorneys successfully defended a claim by the creditor of a vast probate estate seeking to remove the executors for alleged improper conduct. The trial judge dismissed the case after five days of trial and was affirmed in the Connecticut Supreme Court.
- Our attorneys obtained a multimillion dollar settlement in a multi-jurisdictional dispute among suppliers of construction materials after a ten day arbitration proceeding and court battles in two states.
- Representing the designated redeveloper of a 40 acre tract of urban land in Connecticut, our attorneys successfully defeated at the trial court, Appellate Court and Connecticut Supreme Court levels a challenge to the taking and redevelopment of that tract in accordance with the approved Redevelopment Plan.
- Our attorneys recently obtained a jury verdict in federal court against a private lender in which the court found a commercial loan in excess of $1.5 million to be invalid and held the lender liable for damages of more than $500,000.
- In an international arbitration before the International Centre for Dispute Resolution, our attorneys obtained a multi-million dollar award against a broker-dealer that refused to pay a finder's fee associated with a chinese reverse merger transaction. The arbitrator awarded our client the full amount sought, plus attorney fees and costs, plus a premium of 75% over and above the actual amount of attorney fees. The award exceeded the amount claimed by hundreds of thousands of dollars.
The commercial litigation team includes partners, Jay H. Sandak, Peter M. Nolin, Gary S. Klein, Mark J. Kurzman and Stephen J. Conover.
