Sperling Kenny Nachwalter

Chief Executive Officer: Richard H Critchlow
Number of Shareholders nationwide: 18
Number of lawyers nationwide: 22

Firm Overview:
Since its founding in 1978, Kenny Nachwalter, P.A. has been dedicated to excellence in complex business litigation, including antitrust, securities, professional liability, and common law business torts. Kenny Nachwalter is frequently retained in cases involving complicated economic and factual issues, multiple counsel and parties, interrelated cases, competing claims, intense and problematic discovery, and substantive issues requiring superior legal scholarship, analytic ability, and forensic skills. Kenny Nachwalter attorneys regularly litigate in federal and state courts as well as various arbitration tribunals.

Main Areas of Practice:

Antitrust:
The line separating competitive from anti-competitive conduct by people in the same business is a line that the firm has litigated in scores of cases involving conduct in the United States, Europe, and Asia. The firm’s antitrust practice involves cases in federal and state courts nationwide, representing large public and private corporations, individual entrepreneurs and government entities, including clients in the airline, automobile, dairy, financial, grocery, insurance, real estate, rental car, pharmaceutical, publishing, telecommunications, transportation, and shipping industries. The firm often represents individual claimants and groups of claimants who opt out of nationwide class actions to pursue their antitrust claims independently — these have included antitrust cases involving domestic and international cartels and monopolization cases. The firm also provides antitrust counseling on issues ranging from the formation of joint ventures to the structuring of distribution networks. The firm’s attorneys have also taught antitrust law and have served as special assistant attorneys general in several states.

Complex Business Litigation:
The firm regularly represents plaintiffs and defendants in ‘bet the company’ litigation, where dollar amounts, consequences, and complexity demand skilled analysis. These disputes, litigated in state and federal courts and argued before administrative bodies and arbitration tribunals, cover the gamut of business and legal matters, including trade secrets, tax and accounting issues, securities violations, professional malpractice, Ponzi schemes, RICO, class and derivative actions, director and officer liability, corporate and partnership disputes, lender liability, banking and failed financial institutions, False Claims Act and qui tam matters, construction and commercial disputes, real estate-related matters, trade libel, tortious interference, franchise and business opportunities, noncompetition clauses, contracts, fraud, and other common law and statutory business torts. The Firm has also advised boards of directors as well as audit and special committees of boards in connection with derivative actions and other investigations.

Professional Liability:
The firm regularly defends attorneys, auditors, accountants, and securities broker-dealers against claims by their clients, third parties, and regulatory agencies. The firm defends national and local law and accounting firms in proceedings in state and federal courts and before arbitration panels in matters that have included malpractice, breaches of fiduciary duty, RICO, and securities law violations arising out of professional services in an array of substantive areas, such as estates and trusts, tax, litigation and discovery, real estate, corporate planning and advice, corporate mergers and acquisitions, securities, internal investigations and Ponzi schemes allegedly perpetrated by those firm’s clients. The firm also represents attorneys accused of misconduct before the Florida Bar and assists firms in conducting internal investigations. Attorneys and other professionals also regularly seek the firm’s advice in preventive and risk management capacities, where the firm works closely with clients to provide thorough advice and help establish appropriate safeguards and protective procedures.

Securities:
The firm’s securities practice involves class action defense of Securities and Exchange Act claims, derivative actions and complex D&O litigation. It also includes representation in regulatory actions commenced by the SEC and other enforcement agencies. The firm also represents parties in SEC, FINRA, NYSE, and NASD matters.