Clark Smith Villazor LLP, on behalf of its service-disabled veteran clients, obtained an extension of a TRO previously issued by a NY state judge halting the processing of allegedly unconstitutional conditional adult use retail dispensary (CAURD) licenses in the cannabis industry. On August 3, 2023, the firm filed a lawsuit against the…
Clark Smith Villazor LLP, launched earlier this month, is pleased to announce that Jeff Rotenberg has joined the firm as a partner. Rotenberg comes to Clark Smith Villazor after over a decade as a partner and leading financial services litigator in the New York office of a large international law…
We’re excited to announce today the formation of Clark Smith Villazor, with partners Christopher J. Clark, a former federal prosecutor and former Global Chairman of the Securities Litigation and Financial Institutions groups at an international law firm, along with Patrick J. Smith and Rodney Villazor, co-founders of Smith Villazor LLP. Coverage…
Bloomberg Law News reports that Smith Villazor LLP, on behalf of HControl, sues Antin Infrastructure Partners SAS and OTI Parent LLC in Delaware Chancery Court for attempting to walk away from their planned $230 million merger.
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…
