Litigated dispute involving claims of breach of fiduciary duty

We successfully assisted the minority shareholders of a large privately-held company in litigating and settling a disputed claim of improper self-dealing and breach of fiduciary duty by the majority shareholder and CEO with respect to subordinated, shareholder debt. After we investigated the company’s finances, board-level discussions, and management correspondence, I took multiple depositions of officers and of Defendant’s expert witness. The admissions I obtained at deposition, and information we gathered in discovery, allowed us to present summary judgment arguments to the Court which demonstrated that the defendant-CEO used the debt instrument to divert millions of dollars to himself, without proper consideration of financing alternatives. We used the deposition testimony, damaging documents, and a concise summary judgment presentation to help force a favorable settlement just prior to trial.