On February 1, 2018, the United State District Court for the Eastern District of New York held that Data Device Corporation (DDC) (a defense contractor on Long Island) could not...
Failing to Pay a FINRA Arbitration Award The Good The Bad and The Ugly
Failing to Pay a FINRA Arbitration Award The Good The Bad and The Ugly Ethan A. Brecher writes in The New York Law Journal: The consequences to a Financial Industry...
Arbitration Case Filed at ICC Seeking a $2.3 Million Commission
On April 27, 2017, the Law Office of Ethan A. Brecher, LLC filed an arbitration case at the International Chamber of Commerce's International Court of Arbitration seeking for its client...
Arbitration Panel Awards $809,786 Bonus Against Connecticut Hedge Fund
On February 24, 2017, a three-member American Arbitration Association panel sitting in Stamford, CT awarded a $809,786 bonus to a former investment analyst for a large Connecticut-based hedge fund. Following...
Federal Court Finds Bank Holding Company Liable for $26,062,796.30 on Breach of Indenture
On February 15, 2017 (and in a Judgment entered on March 30, 2017), the United States District Court for the Western District of Missouri, in Hildene Opportunities Master Fund, Ltd....
First Department Grants Partial Stay of Contempt Order
The Law Office of Ethan A. Brecher, LLC obtained on January 5, 2017 a partial stay in New York's Appellate Division, First Department of a contempt order in a divorce action,...
NY Suprme Court Allows Claim for a $962,000 Fee to Go to Trial
On December 29, 2016, the New York Supreme Court denied the defendants' motion for summary judgment and allowed a claim on a verbal agreement for a fee to go to trial. The...