Complex Business Litigation

Untangling Complicated Legal Matters

Much of the practice of Rayburn Cooper & Durham involves consultation with the objective of avoiding legal risk. Through an understanding of a client's corporate goals, business operations, and commercial transactions, the firm provides counsel, develops sound policies and procedures, and reviews contracts and business agreements in order to protect the client. There are situations however, when litigation cannot or should not be avoided. When these arise, Rayburn Cooper & Durham vigorously assert their clients' rights and interests through litigation.

Examples of complex commercial litigation topics include:

• Antitrust and competition law, unfair trade practices, and business torts
• Corporate governance, receiverships, takeovers, and proxy contests
• Mergers and acquisitions
• Securities matters, including civil litigation, regulatory matters (Securities and Exchange Commission / SEC and Department of Justice / DOJ), and associated white collar matters

A Sophisticated Interdisciplinary Approach

In its commercial litigation work the firm often finds that a lawsuit is but one aspect of other related and thorny issues the client faces. For example, an apparent default on a contract may mask more serious financial problems, or product liability claims may stem from misrepresentations made by the owners of a company the client acquired.

In these and other situations, the firm's lawyers take an interdisciplinary approach to the practice of law. Rayburn Cooper & Durham can draw on its breadth and depth of experience in the areas of business bankruptcy, mergers and acquisitions, corporate governance, ownership disputes, and other sophisticated areas of law, to identify, clarify, and untangle complicated legal matters. The firm's team approach enables it to focus the efforts of highly experienced and knowledgeable attorneys and litigators in their areas of expertise, while fostering and encouraging interdisciplinary legal solutions.

Whether the matter is simple or complex, the litigation attorney at Rayburn Cooper & Durham who leads your litigation team will respond with urgency and dedication.

As with other areas of our practice, our litigation team enjoys a robust stream of conflict referrals. Typically, these involve situations in which the client is a party to litigation against, or merely along with, a bank or large financial institution. These also include situations in which non-litigants require separate counsel in connection with an investigation, a subpoena, or testimony. Often, such conflicts arise in out-of-court situations relating to employment or business transactions, or merely because the anticipation of litigation creates a need for separate counsel.

Attorneys at the firm focusing on complex litigation include:

James B. Gatehouse
G. Kirkland Hardymon
David S. Melin
Ross Robert Fulton

For a consultation with a complex litigation attorney at Rayburn Cooper & Durham, call (704) 334-0891, or contact us online.