Sullivan & Worcester LLP handles securities, insurance, employment, tax and trade finance disputes. The team demonstrates prowess across the real estate, art, tech and cryptocurrency sectors, as well as in government investigations and white-collar defense. Gerry Silver leads the team from New York and is experienced in software, licensing and IT disputes. Practice head Patrick Dinardo in Boston represents clients in contract, trust, real estate and insolvency disputes, at both state and federal court. Also in Boston, Laura Steinberg focuses her practice on regulatory and fiduciary issues and Nicholas O’Donnell represents a diverse roster of corporations, employers, investment advisers and banks. Erika Todd, also in Boston, specialises in employment matters. In New York, Anna Lea Setz is another name to note, along with Boston-based Ryan Rosenblatt.
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Key clients

  • Former Energy Executives of Venture Global LNG, Inc.
  • Virtus Strategy Trust
  • Comcast Corporation
  • Simplus (an Infosys Company)
  • Adam Levine Living Trust
  • Greenleaf Compassionate Care, Inc.
  • SDL, PLC n/k/a RWS
  • DCD Automotive Holdings, Inc.
  • Mitzi Troyan Living Trust
  • Hexagon Manufacturing Intelligence, Inc.

Work highlights

  • Representing executives and advisors of Venture Global LNG, Inc. when the company improperly acted to prevent the executives and advisors from exercising their respective options, which are now worth in excess of $85 million, in breach of the option agreements and/or the implied covenant of good faith and fair dealing.
  • Representing Virtus Strategy Trust in a class action complaint brought by former shareholders of AllianzGI-managed mutual funds, who sued AGI, an affiliated distributor, and the Trust, as the successor in interest to various other AGI mutual funds, for violation of Sections 11 and 12(2) of the Securities Act.
  • Representing the Mitzi Troyan Living Trust, the successor in interest to the late mid-century artist Matthew Troyan, as well as works by Pablo Picasso and Joan Miró, worth tens of millions of dollars from the art dealer to whom Matthew’s late widow consigned them.

Lawyers

Practice head

Gerry Silver; Patrick Dinardo

Other key lawyers

Laura Steinberg; Nicholas O’Donnell; Erika Todd; Anna Lea Setz; Ryan Rosenblatt