Corporate And Partnership Disputes

Burns & Moss has extensive experience in representing clients engaged in intra-company disputes over claims of mismanagement or unfair treatment of partners or shareholders.  Representative recent matters include:

• Obtaining dismissal of unfair competition claims against our client, the president of a construction business, after which our client obtained a confidential seven-figure settlement payment from an adverse party.
• Obtaining dismissal, after a two-month trial, of $8 million claims of corporate misconduct against president of an engineering design firm, after which our client obtained a confidential mid-six-figure settlement payment from the adverse party.
• Successfully defending sellers of a service business against claims that they had defrauded buyers, after which our clients received a confidential mid-seven-figure settlement from the buyer.