On June 14, 2024, Clark Smith Villazor LLP, initiated a lawsuit in the District Court for the Southern District of New York against CME Group Inc. (CMEG) and New York Mercantile Exchange, Inc. (NYMEX) on behalf of its clients, three investment funds which had held significant open interests in the…
On May 9, 2024, the executive board of the the Association of the Federal Bar of New Jersey selected Rodney Villazor as a new trustee. The AFBNJ is comprised of distinguished attorneys from the private bar and law enforcement practicing in the U.S. District Court for the District of New…
Clark Smith Villazor LLP – a leading white-collar defense and civil-litigation law firm – is proud to announce that Pauline Oostdyk has joined the firm from a leading international law firm as a new associate. She has represented domestic and foreign companies, financial institutions, and individuals in connection with litigations…
On April 8, 2024, CSV’s client Richard Heart, an entrepreneur, philanthropist, and free-speech pioneer who conceived of the cryptocurrency software programs Hex, PulseChain, and PulseX, moved to dismiss the SEC’s claims against him. In July 2023, the SEC sued Heart and the three software programs, alleging that they unlawfully offered…
On February 6, 2024, Jeffrey Rotenberg and Michael Sala of Clark Smith Villazor LLP secured the dismissal of CSV’s client in a federal securities class action pending in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York relating to Lottery.com, where our client had served as Chief…
In a win for Clark Smith Villazor’s client AllianceBernstein, a New York state appellate court, on February 1, 2024, held that the global investment firm was properly dismissed from a lawsuit seeking to hold the firm liable after individuals who used a co-working business center run by AllianceBernstein’s subtenant supposedly breached…
On January 11, 2024, Chris Clark and Benjamin Dozier, on behalf of client VR Capital, filed an opposition to PDVSA’s motion to dismiss in VR Global Partners LP v. Petroleos de Venezuela SA et al., 23-cv-05604 pending in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. The…
On January 10, 2024, the Clark Smith Villazor LLP team of Patrick Smith, Selbie Jason, and Sean McMahon started its defense of Amit Dagar in United States v. Dagar, 23-cr-00319, a federal criminal jury trial in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. In the defense…
Clark Smith Villazor LLP – a leading white-collar defense and civil-litigation law firm – is proud to announce that Michelle E. Lee has joined the firm as a new associate. Michelle, who recently completed a federal clerkship in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York, adds to…
Earlier today, Clark Smith Villazor LLP filed a Stipulation and Proposed Order of Settlement and Dismissal with Supreme Court, Albany County seeking Justice Kevin Bryant’s approval of the settlement reached by CSV on behalf of its four service-disabled veteran clients and New York’s two cannabis agencies and their top executives…
