Litigation Services
Specialists in Business Conduct and Practices
At H.S. Grace & Company, Inc. we’ve built a reputation as experts in analyzing the reasonableness of business conduct and practices, including issues related to business judgment, corporate governance, investment decision-making, and finance and accounting.
Working with plaintiff and defense counsel, insurance carriers, and corporate attorneys we serve as consulting experts and testifying experts in business litigation, with engagements in more than 175 cases involving complex business judgment issues. Our litigation services range from early case diagnostics to expert trial testimony. Deploying a set of highly specialized business skills and analytical tools, HSG helps clients assess causation, evaluate damages, and prepare effective offensive and defensive legal strategies and settlements.
Our Business Litigation Services
Our Experience Spans the Gamut of Business Litigation
We have represented banks, real estate partnerships, bankruptcy trustees and examiners, and corporate directors and officers in such issues as:
- Commercial fraud claims relating to complex financial derivative issues, international structured finance transactions, fund and portfolio management issues, real estate financing and development structures, and embezzlement schemes
- Breach of fiduciary claims against officers, directors, and trustees, including claims for mismanagement and corporate governance failures relating to misleading financial reporting and disclosures and failed investment decisions
- SEC fraud claims involving financial reporting disclosures and investment decisions
- Executive compensation and wrongful termination issues
- Lender liability issues
- Complex contractual issues relating to financing, contract termination, partnership obligations, and breach of representations and warranties
- Corporate merger, acquisition, and spin-off issues including fairness issues, proxy disclosure issues, and materiality
- Intellectual property issues involving claims for breach of contract and damages
- Valuation issues and damage model analysis.
Let’s Work Together
We’ve got the specialized business knowledge to help with your commercial litigation challenges.