Wolf Haldenstein Adler Freeman & Herz LLP

U.S. Securities Litigation

Wolf Haldenstein is nationally recognized for litigating complex securities class actions and shareholder disputes and has achieved significant recoveries and protections for investors. The Firm helps institutional and individual investors protect their assets and recover their losses; compel significant corporate governance reforms; and increase shareholder value by challenging corporate transactions. Wolf Haldenstein has recovered more than $7 billion for shareholders and has created billions of dollars of increased value for shareholders in merger and acquisition cases and by causing important corporate governance reforms.

Antitrust Litigation

Wolf Haldenstein is a proven leader in antitrust litigation, representing both competitors and consumers harmed by anti-competitive practices. The Firm has been recognized by courts throughout the United States for its experience and accomplishments in prosecuting antitrust class actions. Wolf Haldenstein has represented direct and indirect purchasers in many of the nation’s largest antitrust cases challenging monopolization, price-fixing, manipulation, bid-rigging, and other anti-competitive practices.

Wolf Haldenstein has achieved recoveries in a wide range of industries. Our cases have involved such diverse products and services as electronics, financial and investment products, credit cards and services, industrial parts, chemicals and supplies, household products, entertainment and airline services, agricultural and food products, healthcare services, pharmaceuticals, and personal care products.

Entertainment, Copyright & Intellectual Property

Wolf Haldenstein is a Trailblazer in copyright litigation. The Firm has distinguished itself by skillfully navigating the complex relationship between copyright law and public domain protection. Wolf Haldenstein concentrates its IP practice where the boundaries of ownership and licensing intersect with fair use and the public domain. Wolf Haldenstein put itself at the top of copyright law by successfully challenging the copyrights claimed on Happy Birthday to You, the world’s most famous song, and on We Shall Overcome, the most powerful song of the 20th Century. The Firm also represents artists in disputes over the ownership of copyrights and other intellectual property rights.

With no ties to record companies or managers, Wolf Haldenstein focuses its effort on representing artists and music industry executives and what is best for them in contract negotiations, business disputes, and royalty disputes. Issues that arise in these disputes can be complicated and unique, often involving copyrights, performance rights, trademarks, and other valuable intellectual property and sometimes celebrity parties, which adds to their complexity. The Firm is sensitive to all the nuances of these disputes and the issues that may arise and works closely with its clients to handle them quickly and discretely. Wolf Haldenstein has the experience and resources necessary to investigate and resolve even the most complex business disputes, with a track record that stretches from the most confidential settlements to the most public trials.

Commercial & Business

Wolf Haldenstein has decades of experience representing both plaintiffs and defendants in complex, multi-faceted litigation and arbitration in many different business areas. The Firm has an outstanding track record of success litigating complex commercial cases in a broad range of disputes, including shareholder disputes, breach of contract, business torts, real estate litigation, and corporate management disputes.

Wolf Haldenstein recognizes that each case is unique and that disputes often involve high stakes “save the business” situations. The Firm works tirelessly to ensure that every detail of each case is fully understood, and that each challenge is handled expeditiously. Wolf Haldenstein brings its extensive trial experience in hard-fought litigation to every dispute. The Firm believes that preparing each case expecting that it will go to trial is the best way to achieve the best possible outcome for its clients.

Consumer Litigation

Wolf Haldenstein is a national leader in protecting consumer rights. The Firm has achieved significant recoveries and protections for consumers in a broad range of cases. The Firm fights to protect consumers and businesses from unfair and deceptive practices, faulty and unsafe products, and unethical practices.

Dispute Resolution

Wolf Haldenstein provides dispute resolution services to clients in a variety of areas, from business conflicts to civil and commercial disputes, in traditional litigation and alternative dispute resolution, such as arbitration and mediation. The Firm also provides mediation and arbitration services through our team of skilled and experienced neutrals.

Complex problems require specialized care, not cookie-cutter solutions. Some disputes must be resolved in court, while others are better resolved privately through arbitration or mediation. With vast expertise and decades of experience, the members of Wolf Haldenstein’s Dispute Resolution practice manage complex or delicate matters in all stages of any dispute, large or small, from the commencement of proceedings to settlement negotiations and successful conclusion. The Firm’s guiding objective is to help clients avoid protracted, costly, and burdensome litigation by resolving their disputes through negotiation and agreement whenever possible.

Wolf Haldenstein’s lawyers also have served as neutrals, helping parties resolve their disagreements by mediation or a streamlined binding arbitration process, guiding the disputing parties through a confidential, discussion-based process aimed at finding areas of agreement that will result in a mutually beneficial outcome. If a dispute requires a more rigorous adjudicative method, Wolf Haldenstein’s lawyers navigate the parties through arbitration toward a resolution.

Serving as neutrals helps shape the approach of Wolf Haldenstein's lawyers to dispute resolution for the Firm's clients. Seeing disputes from a neutral's perspective provides insights that advocates might overlook, helping the Firm resolve client disputes effectively, creatively, and efficiently.

New York

270 Madison Avenue

New York, New York 10016

(212) 545-4600

Fax: (212) 686-0114

San Diego

Symphony Towers

750 B Street, Suite 1820

San Diego, California 92101

(619) 239-4599

Chicago

111 West Jackson

Suite 1700

Chicago, IL 60604

(312) 984-0000

Nashville

1008 17th Ave South

Nashville, TN 37212

(615) 270-8111