Phillip S Sykes
USA Guide 2024
Band 1 : Litigation: General Commercial
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About
Provided by Phillip S Sykes
Practice Areas
Decades of experience in commercial, environmental, toxic tort, and products litigation. Representative matters include defeating TRO filed in federal court in Chicago for public client that would have stopped a $7.5 billion sale of 89 subsidiaries in 20 states; obtained multi-million jury verdict for client in breach of contract case concerning inspection, acceptance, cooking, and packaging of industrial quantities of poultry; arbitrated case for public client related to breach of contract and default under pledge agreement securing multi-million damages as well as award of attorneys’ fees; defended community-wide groundwater contamination cases at two different sites against lawsuits brought by dozens of plaintiffs, the city and county, and State; national coordinating counsel for target benzene defendant for eight years; secured dismissal of competitor’s theft of trade secrets claim and subsequently obtained $147 million settlement for client’s counterclaims; Fifth Circuit affirmed summary judgment granted public company and CEO clients against claims by president of subsidiary terminated for cause; others trials and arbitrations related to accounting malpractice, derivative action related to formation of bank holding company, and fraud related to telecom IPO. Also is experienced mediator and arbitrator, licensed CPA, and 2022 and 2023 BTI Client Service All-Star.
Career
KPMG 1990-92; Forman Perry Watkins Krutz & Tardy LLP 1995 - 2014; Butler Snow 2014- present.
Professional Memberships
American Institute of Certified Public Accountants; Mississippi Society of CPAs; International Association of Defense Counsel (IADC)
Personal
Mississippi State University, B.P.A., magna cum laude, Professional Accountancy, 1990; University of Mississippi School of Law, J.D., magna cum laude, 1995.
Chambers Review
USA
Phillip Sykes maintains a broad civil disputes practice, which includes unfair competition, professional liability and environmental litigation.
Strengths
Provided by Chambers
"Phillip was extremely detailed and explained the case as it was developing."
"Phillip was extremely detailed and explained the case as it was developing."
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