Entrepreneurs
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AKZ represents business clients in structuring corporate transactions and litigating commercial disputes.
AKZ advises and works with clients with corporate transactions beyond their own in-house capability, e.g., negotiating a long-term lease, buying another company or selling your own. In addition, AKZ represents businesses in commercial litigation, arbitration and mediation.
- In Micromuse, Inc. v. The Estate of Christopher Dawes, we represented the defendant (the estate of a recently deceased high tech entrepreneur), where plaintiff claimed hundreds of millions of dollars in damages for breach of a joint venture agreement. After extensive discovery, our client prevailed on summary judgment, and final judgment entered for the estate, with costs, on March 2, 2004.
- In American Process Equipment Co. v. Atlantic Mutual Insurance Co., AKZ represented the plaintiff engineering firm whose machinery was seriously damaged by heavy rain . After Atlantic Mutual denied coverage, we tried the case in Massachusetts federal court and obtained a jury verdict awarding our client the full insurance coverage in excess of $4.7 million.
