In a complete win for Smith Villazor’s clients, a panel of three FINRA arbitrators rejected an AllianceBernstein customer’s claims against the firm and one of its financial advisors. Following a two-day hearing where Smith Villazor represented AllianceBernstein and the advisor, the panel issued an award denying in their entirety the…
Aaron Goodwin, a top NBA agent, and his brother Eric Goodwin, filed a lawsuit in New York Supreme Court, alleging that the national law firm Gordon Rees Scully & Mansukhani and two of its former partners, C. Anthony Mulrain and Alonzo Llorens, conspired and helped their client Decade S.A.C., LLC execute…
Consumer-products brand EOS’s co-founder Sanjiv Mehra’s derivative claims against his former business partner Jonathan Teller can proceed, according to an order of N.Y. Supreme Court Justice Andrea Masley issued on October 18, 2022. Mr. Mehra filed the derivative action in late 2020, claiming that Mr. Teller was improperly using the business’s…
Smith Villazor LLP is pleased to announce the promotion of Brian Burns to Counsel. Brian joined Smith Villazor in 2017, a year after its founding, and has been a key contributor to the growth and success of the firm. Brian has been involved in the firm’s most high-profile and complex…
Smith Villazor represented Ben Delo, one of three co-founders of BitMEX, a cryptocurrency derivatives exchange founded in 2014. In October 2020, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York charged Ben, the other co-founders, and an employee of BitMEX with violating the BSA because BitMEX failed to…
Smith Villazor LLP, a leading New York litigation and white-collar defense firm, is proud to be recognized by Chambers and Partners in the Chambers USA 2022: America’s Leading Lawyers for Business Guide in the Litigation: Specialist Firms in White-Collar Crime & Government Investigations in New York category. Chambers writes that the the firm has “excellent…
On March 3, 2022, the New York Appellate Division revived a claim that a New York law firm and two of its attorneys breached their fiduciary duties to Smith Villazor’s clients Sanjiv Mehra and a related trust. Mr. Mehra is the co-founder of the consumer-products brand EOS, best known for…
On September 20, 2021, Smith Villazor LLP filed a motion to dismiss a Commodity Future Trading Commission (CFTC) complaint against BitMEX co-owner Ben Delo pending in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. As set forth in Law 360, a Delo spokesperson stated that “[t]he CFTC’s…
Smith Villazor LLP, a leading New York litigation and white-collar defense firm, is proud to be recognized by Chambers and Partners in the Chambers USA 2021: America’s Leading Lawyers for Business Guide in the Litigation: Specialist Firms in White-Collar Crime & Government Investigations in New York category. Chambers writes that the firm has a “notable…
