Dan Miller at Miller Barondess LLP leads a high-stakes commercial litigation practice spanning business disputes, intellectual property, real estate, and entertainment matters. Miller represents clients including Wave Investment, StudioFest, and GI Partners, achieving notable results such as defeating demurrers and motions on pleadings in a $25m breach-of-contract case, pursuing a high-profile copyright dispute against Dave Franco and Alison Brie, and leveraging prior victories to defend a private equity client against elder abuse and fraud claims.
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Key clients

  • Beach Point Capital Management LP
  • Velocity Fundraising Resources, Inc.
  • GI Partners
  • PacTec Holdings, LLC
  • StudioFest
  • Caelux Corporation
  • Horn Trust
  • Runyon Capital
  • Vaxiion Therapeutics
  • Wave Investment, LLC
  • Corbel Capital Partners
  • Sound Partners, LLC
  • Alcon Entertainment

Work highlights

Representing Wave Investment, LLC in a $25m+ breach of contract and fraud dispute against SecurCapital, involving misappropriation of a business opportunity, with trial set for February 2026.
Representing StudioFest in a copyright infringement lawsuit against Dave Franco, Alison Brie, WME, Michael Shanks, and Neon, alleging that the film Together substantially copied StudioFest’s 2023 movie Better Half.
Defending GI Partners in litigation involving elder abuse, fraud, and negligence claims related to a skilled nursing portfolio company, leveraging a prior no-cost dismissal to protect the client’s interests.