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Meister Seelig & Fein PLLC Offices
Williamsburg Commons
4 Auer Court, Suite E&F
East Brunswick, NJ 08816
United States
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New York City Elite > Commercial disputes
Alexander Pencu at Meister Seelig & Fein PLLC is an excellent commercial litigator with notable experience in international cases. Pencu’s expertise includes both representing clients before federal and state courts, with particular experience in antitrust, business torts and breach of contract claims. His clients come from the healthcare, beverage and oil and gas sectors – among several others – and include notable corporate and state clients such as Erkman International Co. and the Federal Republic of Nigeria.Key clients
Erkman International Co. Ltd.
Dr. Bavaguthu Shetty (“B.R. Shetty”) and Neopharma LLC
The Federal Republic of Nigeria and Attorney General Abubakar Malami, the
Attorney General of the Federal Republic of Nigeria
Work highlights
- Representing Erkman International Co (EIC), the minority owner of Ektam Kibris Ltd – the exclusive bottler and distributor of Pepsi soft drink products in Northern Cyprus. EIC alleges that the individual defendants who control Ektam engaged in a fraudulent scheme to steal Ektam’s profits from its Pepsi distribution business.
- Defending The Federal Republic of Nigeria and the Ministry of Petroleum Resources of the Federal Republic of Nigeria ) in a more than $12bn foreign arbitral award enforcement proceeding commenced by Process and Industrial Developments Ltd. (“P&ID”) in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia.
Dispute resolution > International litigation Tier 3
The international litigation practice at New York-based Meister Seelig & Fein PLLC is noted for its ‘people, expertise, and knowledge’, and is adept at handling complex matters for leading clients in both state and federal courts, as well as those spanning jurisdictions. Alexander Pencu is commended by one client for being ‘highly experienced, absolutely global, open-minded, and flexible’. Christopher J. Major and Kathryn Matthews both lead the team with Pencu, bringing a range of experience across financial services, bankruptcy, and business tort-linked disputes. Michael Sloan is noted for his ‘brilliant mind’ and ability to use his ‘deep knowledge of the law and adapt it to the given facts’, with Marina Tarasova noted as a practitioner with ‘extraordinary attention to detail’.Practice head(s):
Alexander Pencu; Christopher Major; Kathryn Matthews
Other key lawyers:
Testimonials
‘Excellent preparation in private international conflict of laws, which makes easy to deal in multinational and international cases.’
‘Prompt and sound response to any challenges you put in front of them. Easy and down to the earth defensive strategies ’
‘It is a truly bright team capable to work with untypical issues in the changing world. For the time we worked together, we face with unpredictable and exceptional circumstances (the smallest of them were COVID-19 and war in Ukraine); none of them negatively affected our projects. Their teams consists of extraordinary attorneys, who perfectly fit each other, and all together provide with the best quality legal services. ’
‘We worked with – Alexander Pencu – the leader of the team, highly experienced, absolutely global, open-minded and flexible; – Michael Sloan is a brilliant mind, capable of using his deep knowledge of the law and adopt it to the given facts. Marina Tarasova is a lawyer with extraordinary attention to details. ’
Key clients
The Federal Republic of Nigeria
The Federal Republic of Nigeria and the Ministry of Petroleum Resources of the Federal Republic of Nigeria
A Company Hungary Kft
Lynwood Investments CY Limited
Alpha Lab Asset Management
Greenwich Land, LLC
Work highlights
- Representing an individual and Neopharma LLC in $7 billion fraud claim against Bank of Baroda, Credit Europe Bank N.V., Ernst & Young LLP, and Ernst & Young Middle East (Abu Dhabi) in New York State Court, Commercial Division, County of New York.
- Defending Federal Republic of Nigeria and Ministry of Petroleum Resources of the Federal Republic of Nigeria in $10 billion arbitral enforcement action commenced by Process and Industrial Developments, Ltd. in United States District Court for the District of Columbia.
- Representing an individual in $90 million action against Binance Holdings Ltd. and Payward, Inc. & Payward Ventures, Inc. for aiding and abetting individual defendants to launder plaintiff’s stolen bitcoin arising from the hack of plaintiff’s electrum wallet.