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International Arbitration: Sequor Law shareholder Fernando J. Menendez, Jr. and counsel Christopher A. Noel recently obtained an approximately $4.5 million award in an international arbitration proceeding seated in New York against the American branch office of a Taiwanese personal protective equipment supplier for breach of contract.
International Complex Commercial Litigation: Sequor Law founding shareholder Edward H. Davis, Jr., shareholder Arnoldo B. Lacayo, and counsel Christopher A. Noel recently obtained affirmance on plenary appeal of an approximately $30 million judgment against the mastermind of a fraud perpetrated against Sequor Law’s client in Colombia, Panama, Switzerland, and the United States. The only remaining issue for the trial court is to offset a confidential settlement made by a separate group of co-conspirators and enter an amended final judgment.
International Complex Commercial Litigation: Sequor Law shareholder Fernando J. Menendez, Jr. and counsel Christopher A. Noel recently obtained an affirmance on appeal of an alter ego determination made at summary judgment against the managing member of multiple LLCs that were used to commingle and secrete funds paid by Sequor Law’s client through numerous intercompany transfers. The transfers, which were discovered as a result of Sequor’s discovery and tracing efforts, were found to have been used to purchase the judgment debtor’s multi-million dollar personal residence near Los Angeles, California. In its opinion issued just two weeks after oral argument, the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit stated that it had “no difficulty concluding that a jury could not find for [defendants].”
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