Anderson Kill’s Financial Litigation & Complex Disputes Group specializes in high-value financial and investment lawsuits. We have decades of experience advising clients in litigation involving complex financial instruments, investment vehicles, funding agreements, commercial contracts, and M&A agreements. Navigating these disputes requires creative legal strategy, deep practical experience, and nuanced industry insight. We approach each case with the primary goal of advancing our clients’ business interests as effectively as possible.

High-Value Financial Litigation. Our clients include corporations, asset managers, venture capital firms, private equity firms, financial institutions, and investors across a range of industries. We have obtained successful results for claimants and defendants, both prior to trial and in front of juries. Among others, we have successfully represented bondholders with more than $1 billion in claims against a major telecom company, an international bank in years-long litigation of more than $60 billion in RICO and fraudulent-conveyance claims, former shareholders against an international technology conglomerate in a $400 million earn-out dispute, and a multinational industrials company against claims involving $100 million in put options.

Cross-Border Disputes. AK attorneys routinely engage in financial litigation involving cross-border claims and overseas assets. Among other things, we have represented clients in disputes involving cross-border fraud and investment claims, we have pursued assets in jurisdictions across the globe, we have advanced creditors’ claims in offshore insolvency proceedings, and we have pursued US-based claims on behalf of overseas clients. AK’s familiarity with cross-border litigation enables us to help our clients pursue claims and funds wherever they may be located, and our extended network of offshore attorneys, barristers, and insolvency professionals provides access to the most active overseas jurisdictions for financial litigation, including in the Caribbean, Europe, and Asia.

Insolvency-Related Litigation. Our team also has extensive experience in complex financial disputes that arise in bankruptcy and insolvency proceedings. We have been appointed special counsel to the bankruptcy trustee to pursue claw-back claims and other asset recovery, we have litigated key disputes in adversary proceedings on behalf of financial-industry creditors, and we have represented members of creditors’ committees responsible for authorizing asset-recovery strategies pursued by joint liquidators.

Digital-Asset Investment Disputes. AK has deep experience representing investors in digital assets, cryptocurrency companies, and other on-blockchain ventures. Among other things, we have enforced investors’ rights to participate in token offerings under Simple Agreements for Future Tokens (SAFTs), enforced early-stage investors’ equity rights in a multibillion-dollar cryptocurrency exchange under Simple Agreements for Future Equity (SAFEs), enforced a tech accelerator’s rights in an early-stage crypto company under a post-money SAFE, and protected a crypto exchange’s rights as a member of the creditors’ committee in the insolvency of an $18 billion crypto-based hedge fund. In addition to litigation, we also routinely provide advice and counsel to some of the largest digital-asset financial services firms in the country.

The variety of AK’s experience allows us to devise and pursue litigation strategies that help to best protect our clients’ interests.