Defended accountants, including auditors and valuation experts, against claims of professional malpractice and securities violations.

We successfully compelled arbitration of professional liability and other claims against a former Big 4 accounting firm’s partners involving complex tax investment strategies.

The firm successfully achieved dismissal of complex malpractice and business tort claims brought in federal court against an accounting firm that served companies engaged in the futures trading industries.

Avado Brands, Inc. v. KPMG LLP, 2006 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 96156, (U.S.D.C. N.D. Ga. March 3, 2006)(arbitration compelled in complex tax strategies case including claims of accounting malpractice and business torts).

On behalf of a hedge fund, Halsey Knapp and Jonathan Hawkins negotiated a high six-figure recovery from a title insurance company and its closing attorney for failing to secure a first position priority lien on a multi-million dollar piece of collateral they had insured and for failing to follow closing instructions. Stillwater Asset Backed Holdings, LP v. First […]

Successfully defended lawyer acting as escrow agent against charges he improperly released to seller escrowed funds when purchaser failed to close timely. Fuqua Construction Company, Inc. v. Pillar Development Inc., In the Superior Court of Fulton County 293 Ga. App. 462, 667 S. E. 2d 633 (August 2008) (Judge Baxter).