Practice Areas - Business Advice and Litigation
Smyth & Mason is experienced in handling and resolving a broad range of business issues, litigation and disputes. Our success comes from our years of experience combined with a drive for finding and applying novel legal theories.
Whether its resolving disputes related to the expulsion or departure of business partners, or imposing liens on fiber-optic cable conduits, we won’t rest until we know we’ve exhausted every avenue for our client. Our business trial experience has led us to state and federal courts in Washington, Hawaii, Alaska, Idaho, Oregon, and Texas, and arbitrations in the United Kingdom. Our business advice includes anticipating and preventing before they occur, isolating them when they do, and devising exit strategies when someone wants out.
The matters we frequently handle include:
Examples include:
Successfully tried equity skimming and Credit Services Organization Act case to King County jury, resulting in punitive damages award;
Successfully tried a FEMA case in Honolulu, arising from Hurricane Iniki;
Successfully prosecuted injunction for publicly traded company subsidiary against former owners for violation of purchase and sale non-competition obligations;
Successfully tried a receivership case against a national retailer in Clearwater, Florida;
Successfully arbitrated against British Nuclear Fuels Ltd in Manchester, UK;
Successfully tried a differing site conditions jury trial against the City of Anchorage, to multi-million dollar verdict, affirmed in the Alaska Supreme Court;
Successfully defended manufacturer against class action tort allegations;
Successfully defended real estate developer against an attempt to impose receivership over approximately $40 million of properties;
Successfully represented a law partner expelled from partner’s firm, recovering significant damages for breach of fiduciary duty;
Successfully represented the sole heir of important medical device inventor in a will contest;
Successfully represented a philanthropist and financier in recovering value for a multi-million dollar stock swindle;
Successfully represented business owners selling or refinancing their companies, to a combined value of over $300 million.
