Executives who help run organizations have some of the most complex employment contracts of any professionals. Their contracts may include agreements to create a succession plan, profit-sharing arrangements, restrictive covenants and a host of other complicated...
As a senior executive or financial professional, your compensation likely includes more than just a salary. Bonuses, stock options, deferred compensation and severance packages often make up a significant portion of your total earnings. The impact can be serious when...
It is with great satisfaction that I announce the affirmance by New York's Appellate Division, First Department, , of a summary judgment ruling awarding the Firm's client 1,148 shares in the startup company Society Pass Inc. (Nasdaq: SOPA). The valuation of these...
On September 24, 2024, a FINRA arbitration panel issued an award in favor of the firm's client that the information that had been reported on her Form U-5 was "defamatory," and should be expunged.
In June 2023, in Coinbase, Inc. v Bielski, 143 S Ct 1915, 1921 [2023], the US Supreme Court held that where a district court denies a motion to compel arbitration, the party losing that motion (i.e., the party seeking to compel arbitration) is entitled under tSection...
Judicial review of arbitration awards is extremely limited. One judicially created grounds for vacating arbitration awards is where the arbitrators acted in "manifest disregard of the law." This situation arises where a court finds “both that (1) the arbitrators knew...
"Confidentiality is “a paradigmatic aspect of arbitration.”" So stated the US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit in Stafford v Intl. Bus. Machines Corp., 22-1240, 2023 WL 5183546 [2d Cir Aug. 14, 2023], where the Court held that is was proper to keep sealed an...
In April 2024, the firm negotiated a significant payment and other favorable terms regarding the departure of a CEO from a NYSE listed public comany.
In March 2024, the New York State Supreme Court granted summary judgment for Law Office of Ethan A Brecher LLC's clients, directing that they were entitled to a declaratory judgment that they were a members of a pooled real estate investment vehicle over the fund...
On January 4, 2024, the New York Appellate Division, First Department issued an opinion upholding on behalf Law Office of Ethan A Brecher LLC's (and his co-counsel's) clients their breach of fiduciary duty claims and reinstated their fraud claims against a real estate...