Our Expertise Category: Litigation

Securities Litigation & Arbitration

Pastore attorneys are highly skilled, creative, and motivated litigators who have built a record of considerable success in complex matters in arbitration.

Our focus is on representing financial services industry clients in litigation in state and federal court as well as in FINRA arbitrations.

We have significant experience in representing broker-dealers in customer complaint cases (including allegations of unauthorized trading and lack of suitability) and in various transactional disputes in the financial services industry; and representing both firms and employees in employment disputes.

We have also represented hedge funds, private equity funds, and venture funds in a wide range of disputes, and have experience in high-profile litigation involving bank conversions from mutual to stock companies.

Our attorneys have also represented clients in cases involving distressed debt securities convertible swaps, residential mortgage-backed securities, private equity loan agreements, warrants and options, convertible bonds, merger rights claims of misrepresentation in connection with unregistered offerings, disputes over fees in financial services agreements, promissory notes and private placement memoranda.

Commercial Litigation

Our firm represents local and national clients in litigation in state and federal court as well as in mediation/arbitration around the country.

Our attorneys are highly skilled, creative and motivated litigators who have built a record of considerable success in complex matters in arbitration, at trial and on appeal at all levels of state and federal courts. One of our attorneys has been named one of the top litigators in the country by The American Lawyer magazine. Among others, we represent one of the largest pharmaceutical companies in the world, one of the largest insurance companies in the world, one of the largest retail-based private equity firms, and one of the largest financial institutions in the world, all in commercial litigation, totaling over 100 cases since the firm’s founding for these clients alone.