Michael H. Gruenglas represents corporations and individuals in complex disputes involving a wide range of corporate, commercial and securities matters.  He regularly appears before the federal and state courts, as well as in arbitration tribunals.  Mr. Gruenglas has been selected for inclusion in Chambers USA: America’s Leading Lawyers for Business 2009.

Mr. Gruenglas has represented a broad spectrum of clients, both as plaintiffs and defendants, in cases involving claims for breaches of contract, fraud, breaches of fiduciary duty, tortious interference, antitrust issues and violations of civil RICO, among others.  He has represented a number of publicly traded corporations, including McKesson HBOC and Cendant Corporation, in some of the most significant securities class actions in recent years as well as in many related lawsuits.  Mr. Gruenglas has conducted internal corporate investigations relating to such representations.  He also has represented various public corporations in hotly contested takeovers.  Mr. Gruenglas also focuses on technology-related litigation and serves on the firm’s technology and electronic discovery committees.

In May 2008, after a full evidentiary trial before the American Arbitration Association, Mr. Gruenglas won a complete victory on behalf of SanDisk in an arbitration against Samsung Electronics.  The dispute, which has garnered significant media attention, related to the delivery of critical electronic components and patent licenses.  Mr. Gruenglas represented CTF Hotel Holdings, Inc. and Hotel Property Investments Ltd. in their arbitration and federal actions against Marriott International, Inc., which included a seven-week evidentiary hearing before an American Arbitration Association panel.  Acting as plaintiffs’ counsel, Mr. Gruenglas recently obtained a more than $33 million summary judgment award in the New York State Supreme Court, Commercial Division, against a New York bank accused of using its reorganization as a Delaware corporation as a means of evading its obligations to its preferred shareholders.  He also defended Morgan Stanley & Co. in class actions involving alleged ERISA violations and successfully litigated a complex spyware/invasion of privacy action.