Profile
Amini LLC | The Team:
Founding Members:
· Bijan Amini
· Avery Samet
· Lita Beth Wright
Member:
· Jeffrey Chubak
Of Counsel:
· Eric Seiff
· John Brewer
Associates:
· Jordan Reisch
· Charles Wollman
· Ariel Moore
· Elyssa Brezel
Number of Members: 4
Number of Non-Member Attorneys: 6
Number of Paralegals and Staff: 8
Amini LLC | The Firm:
Amini LLC (www.aminillc.com) is a premier boutique litigation practice distinguished by its team of trial attorneys who handle highly complex, challenging commercial disputes, achieving multi-million-dollar outcomes for clients. The team excels in navigating multifaceted cases that span diverse areas of law, practice domains, and industry sectors. In just five years, Amini LLC has earned notable victories in courts nationwide, both alongside and against the nation’s largest firms. They obtain these results by combining business acumen, legal know-how, and unwavering tenacity.
Founded in September 2019, Amini LLC’s core team had worked together for three decades prior, comprising Founding Members Bijan Amini, Lita Beth Wright, and Avery Samet, along with Member Jeffrey Chubak and Of Counsel Eric Seiff and John Brewer. Since the pandemic, the team convenes daily to share insights and strategies, leveraging their collective experience to drive success. Amini LLC offers clients the accessibility and approachability of a boutique practice, combined with the sophistication, resolve, and courtroom assertiveness that set top-tier litigation counsel apart.
Amini LLC | Main Areas of Practice:
▪Complex Commercial Litigation
Prosecuted and defended a wide range of claims involving contract disputes, management and corporate control issues, breaches of fiduciary duty, shareholder rights, business valuation issues, employment disputes, covenants not to compete, RICO defence, fraudulent conveyance, business torts, and more.
▪Corporate Governance
Deep experiencehandling matters breach of contract, complex financial products, mergers, partnership dissolutions, joint ventures, closely held companies, and misappropriation of funds. Amini attorneys help clients not only resolve issues but also find the best path forward with expert counsel on the intricacies of law and business.
▪Bankruptcyand Bankruptcy Litigation
Amini LLCexcelsin complexbankruptcy litigation.The firm represents a broad range of stakeholders—debtors, creditors, executive teams, and estate professionals—in bankruptcy cases, adversary actions, contested hearings, and post-emergence litigation. With corporate governance central to distressed situations, Amini LLC works with companies and boards to manage challenges, focusing on risk mitigation, stakeholder negotiation, and value preservation. The firm hashandled several major crypto bankruptcies for both debtors and creditors.
▪Intellectual Property Disputes
Amini LLC navigates clients through challenges at the intersection of innovation, technology, and commerce. The firm excels in presenting IP issues as compelling arguments in court. Teams are tailored to each case, working with industry experts to address complex matters. The firm’s expertise spans trade secrets, trademarks, and copyright infringements, alongside related issues like antitrust violations and contract disputes.
▪Complex Estate Litigation
Specialised counsel, withstrong track record of defending clients against allegations such as undue influence, breach of fiduciary duty, and fraud, vigilantly protecting their interests at all stages.Multi faceted claims, clientsranging fromgrantors, settlors, administrators, heirs, trustees, or beneficiaries.
▪Professional Malpractice
AminiLLChas successfully navigated clients through high-stakes accounting and legal malpractice cases. The firm's litigators possess the legal and commercial acumen essential for success in derivative claims, covering a broad spectrum of corporate misconduct, including fraud, oversight failures, professional malpractice, and cross-border issues, among other legal violations. Amini's results-driven litigation strategies often lead to successful settlements before trial. When litigation is unavoidable, clients benefit from the firm’s experienced, trial-ready team.
Links to Recent Coverage of Amini LLC Cases
- https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20240715830152/en/Amini-LLC-Achieves-40-Million-Victory-for-Secured-Lender-Defeating-Unconscionability-Defense?utm_campaign=shareaholic&utm_medium=copy_link&utm_source=bookmark
- https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/24/nyregion/hamas-gaza-aid-unrwa-lawsuit.html?unlocked_article_code=1.300.CArn.vauFE7yel1p-&smid=url-share
- https://aminillc.com/september-2024/ (UNRWA case landing page)
- https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20240321411542/en/Amini-LLC-Secures-2.2-Million-Attorneys%E2%80%99-Fees-Award-in-Fiduciary-Breach-Case
- https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20240111283819/en/Amini-LLC-Recovers-Full-Satisfaction-of-52-Million-Judgment-Against-Lynn-Tilton
Office:
131 West 35th Street | 12th Floor
New York, NY 10001
(212) 490 - 4700
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