Overview
George represents clients across industries in their most significant matters, both as plaintiffs and defendants. He has achieved outright victories at trial and arbitration, and highly favorable resolutions of government enforcement actions and investigations. George has extensive experience across a broad spectrum of contract-based disputes, including those arising out of licensing arrangements, distribution agreements, equity investments, collaboration/joint development agreements, and asset purchase agreements, as well as in matters involving antitrust, consumer protection, and various business torts.
George also routinely represents clients in contentious matters adverse to government entities, including the Department of Justice, the Federal Trade Commission, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, and various state attorneys general.
Experience
George’s experience includes:
Complex Commercial Litigation
- A global biopharmaceutical company: secured complete victory in arbitration of contractual dispute implicating 10-figure royalty and milestone payments.
- A biotechnology company: defending successfully in a dispute involving rights to an innovative medical device, with claims sounding in contract and trade secret misappropriation.
- A pharmaceutical client: obtaining early disposition, in the client’s favor, of an arbitrated dispute arising out of a pharmaceutical licensing agreement.
- A healthcare client: representing as plaintiff asserting claims for tortious interference with contract and deceptive trade practices, arising out of the alleged misappropriation of patient assistance funds.
- A financial advisory firm: representing successfully in connection with defamatory and commercially disparaging statements made, and ultimately retracted, by a competitor.
- A financial institution plaintiff: representing successfully at the trial of a US$700m claim against the sponsor of an asset-backed securitization
- A financial guarantor: representing in structured finance litigation in various federal and state courts involving student loan securitization trusts.
- A medical device manufacturer: defending in False Claims Act litigation, resulting in dismissal with prejudice.
Antitrust
- An innovative pharmaceutical company: defending against antitrust claims brought by a competitor marketing a product similar to the innovator’s blockbuster biologic drug. Also represented the innovator in follow-on actions brought by direct purchasers, indirect purchasers and retailers.
- A pharmaceutical client: securing dismissal of antitrust and unfair trade practices claims brought by a state attorney general.
- Leading New York City art museums: securing dismissal of a putative class action alleging a conspiracy to fix prices in the contemporary art market.
Contentious Regulatory
- Large entities: advising in investigations and representations related to potential allegations arising under the Federal Trade Commission Act; the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act; the Consumer Financial Protection Act; the False Claims Act; the Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act; and other federal and state laws.
- Individuals: representing in investigations and potential prosecutions by the U.S. Department of Justice.
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