Stephen G. Foresta > McGuireWoods LLP > New York, United States > Lawyer Profile
McGuireWoods LLP Offices
1251 AVENUE OF THE AMERICAS, 20TH FLOOR
NEW YORK, NY 10020-1104
NEW YORK
United States
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Stephen G. Foresta
Career
Steve is a litigation partner in our New York office focusing his practice on complex commercial litigation, including insurance recovery, life settlement disputes, and mass tort and product liability actions. His experience includes handling all phases of complex litigation and he has tried numerous cases in state and federal court and before arbitral panels in the United States and abroad.
In Steve’s life settlement practice, he has litigated a wide variety of disputes, including insurable interest/STOLI challenges, cost of insurance rate increases, enforcement of contestability clauses, and claims of elder abuse, fraud and unfair competition.
Steve has also represented plaintiffs and defendants in environmental actions, patent infringement claims and other types of disputes for clients across a wide variety of industries.
Lawyer Rankings
United States > Insurance > Advice to policyholders
McGuireWoods LLP specializes in exclusive policyholder representation, covering a broad spectrum of insurance recovery disputes including property and business interruption losses from natural disasters, legal action coverage disputes, and claims related to regulatory violations. With extensive experience in international insurance arbitrations in Bermuda and litigation/arbitration in London for policies subject to both English and US law, the team’s four co-heads are found positioned across the country. Anthony P. Tatum, experienced in complex commercial disputes, serves as co-head from Atlanta, while Candace Blydenburgh, a specialist in product and environmental liability, supports from Virginia. In New York, the practice is headed by litigation expert Stephen G. Foresta, experienced in trying numerous cases in state and federal court and before arbitral panels in the US and abroad, along with Scott Oostdyk, who specializes in a range of commercial insurance disputes. Other notable figures in the practice include Shelby S. Guilbert in Atlanta, known for handling high-stakes contract disputes and cross-border litigation, as well as skilled litigators Nicholas G Hill and Joseph M. Englert, whose focus primarily lies in representing policyholders in complex commercial insurance coverage disputes.
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Top Tier Firm Rankings
- M&A/corporate and commercial > M&A: middle-market (sub-$500m)
- Transport > Rail and road: litigation and regulation
Firm Rankings
- Insurance > Advice to policyholders
- Industry focus > Education
- Energy > Energy litigation: electric power
- Energy > Energy regulation: electric power
- Energy > Energy transactions: electric power
- Dispute resolution > Product liability, mass tort and class action - defense: automotive/transport
- Transport > Aviation and air travel: finance
- Energy > Energy litigation: oil and gas
- Labor and employment > Labor and employment disputes (including collective actions)
- Tax > Not-for-profit (Fortune 1000 private foundations, national trade associations, and charities)
- Media, technology and telecoms > Outsourcing
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Private equity buyouts: middle-market (Up to $500m)
- Dispute resolution > Product liability, mass tort and class action - defense: pharmaceuticals and medical devices
- Dispute resolution > Product liability, mass tort and class action - defense: toxic tort
- Energy > Renewable/alternative power
- Healthcare > Service providers
- Transport > Shipping: litigation and regulation
- Antitrust > Cartel
- Antitrust > Civil litigation/class actions: defense
- Media, technology and telecoms > Cyber law (including data privacy and data protection)
- Labor and employment > Employee benefits, executive compensation and retirement plans: design
- Labor and employment > Employee benefits, executive compensation and retirement plans: transactional
- Energy > Energy transactions: oil and gas
- Environment > Environment: litigation
- Environment > Environment: regulatory
- Environment > Environment: transactional
- Finance > Fintech
- Dispute resolution > Product liability, mass tort and class action - defense: consumer products (including tobacco)
- Media, technology and telecoms > Technology transactions
- Intellectual property > Trade secrets (litigation and non-contentious matters)
- Dispute resolution > General commercial disputes
- Finance > Project finance
- Real estate > Real estate finance
- Dispute resolution > Leading trial lawyers
- Tax > US taxes: non-contentious
- Finance > Capital markets: debt offerings
- Finance > Commercial lending
- Dispute resolution > Corporate investigations and white-collar criminal defense