Commercial Litigation and Arbitration

• Representation of the Office of the Commissioner of Baseball in Florida litigation to address tortious interference with contract by persons and clinics distributing performance enhancing substances to Major League Baseball players.
• Representation in connection with multiple litigations in the New York and Florida state and federal courts, and the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Florida, arising from an alleged breach of a joint venture agreement regarding several real estate investments, involving US $50 million+ in controversy.
• Representation of a public, global technology company’s board of directors in multiple shareholder class actions in Delaware and Florida alleging breach of fiduciary duty by the board of directors in connection with the approval of a US $2 billion tender offer by Verizon Holdings Inc.

Intellectual Property & Technology Litigation

• Representation of a corporate client in a dispute with multiple parties regarding ownership rights in wireless email technology.
• Representation of an orthopedic surgeon in a suit over theft of trade secrets related to several patented inventions that were ultimately sold to two international pharmaceutical companies.

International Judgment Enforcement & Offshore Asset Recovery

• Representation of Chevron in the successful enforcement of an investment treaty arbitration award against the Republic of Ecuador for US $100 million+ (with interest). Kobre & Kim’s efforts in executing an enforcement strategy, including asset tracing, efforts to identify seizure targets, and the service of numerous discovery requests, culminated in Ecuador’s paying Chevron the entirety of the original award plus interest. 
• Representation of the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands in enforcing judgments of US $120 million+ against assets and defendants in multiple jurisdictions, including Florida, New York, Ireland, the Cayman Islands, Hong Kong and Singapore. Our work in this matter was profiled on the front page of The Wall Street Journal (September 10, 2011).

Government Enforcement Defense

• Under the Puerto Rico Oversight, Management and Economic Stability Act of 2016 ("PROMESA"), service as independent investigator to the Special Investigation Committee of the Financial Oversight and Management Board for Puerto Rico to perform a comprehensive review of the factors contributing to Puerto Rico's fiscal crisis.
• Obtained landmark acquittal on behalf of Raoul Weil, former head of UBS global wealth management and the highest-ranking Swiss banker to stand trial in the U.S., on allegations he conspired with wealthy Americans to hide US $20 billion in secret offshore accounts. Kobre & Kim was brought in as special litigation counsel for the trial in Florida, where the firm’s aggressive cross-examinations of government witnesses and closing arguments played a key role in crippling the government’s case.
• Representation of a former Credit Suisse banker in prosecution by the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida, relating to alleged assistance to U.S. taxpayers in evading tax obligations.
• Representation of multiple executives of a large oil company through multidistrict civil discovery process and related government inquiries.
• Representation of a chief operating officer of a healthcare facility related to violations of the anti-kickback statute and other healthcare-related violations in which the government has intervened in eight separate qui tam actions.
• Representation of a senior manager at a large automobile company in response to a DOJ and U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) investigation relating to the automaker’s sales data reporting practices.