Aeton Law Partners
WHEN IT’S BUSINESS, AND PERSONAL
A substantial amount of the litigation practice at Aeton involves business litigation. We have years of experience bringing and defending claims involving all types of business disputes. Our cases range from financial disputes between two co-owners of a limited liability company to multi-million dollar derivative claims for breach of fiduciary duty against directors and officers. Our business litigators represent individuals and businesses in disputes in Connecticut and Massachusetts, as well as throughout the country on a select basis in such locations as Delaware, New York, New Jersey and California. We work with our clients to match them with the right litigation and trial team at Aeton by considering the scope of the dispute, the client’s preferences, and the expected litigation budget.
When an individual or business needs to hire an attorney to either defend or bring a business-related lawsuit, finding the right fit between client and attorney is very important. Aeton business litigator, N. Kane Bennett, has been practicing law for more than 25 years. He is the author of the Connecticut Business Litigation Blog. The blog covers a vast range of issues that Connecticut businesses face, including dissolution, partnership disputes, breach of fiduciary duty, employment, non-competes, theft of trade secrets, and confidential information. He was named a Super Lawyer in Connecticut for Business Litigation from 2014-2022. He further co-authored the Connecticut Law Tribune’s publication of discovery forms that are used in civil business tort lawsuits, and a separate book covering 10 years of specific business disputes available for free on our home page.
Attorney Bennett is joined by veteran trial attorney Jonathan Shapiro and senior associate Brian Ward. Attorney Shapiro has been practicing for more than 20 years. He received notoriety for successful defense of a manufacturing client in one of the longest trade secret trials in Connecticut including over 100 days of evidence. Attorney Shapiro has developed particular experience in disputes involving financial firms, investment advisors, brokers and dealers. Attorney Ward’s experience includes first chair trial representation of small market businesses in dissolution proceedings, breach of fiduciary duty, and unfair competition. Attorney Ward has several reported decisions involving complex issues unique to limited liability companies, including matters of standing, derivative claims, and expulsion.
In many cases, a business solution or settlement of a dispute often makes sense for both sides. Litigation can be costly, and sometimes a complete distraction for both sides of a dispute. Finding a business solution to a legal problem typically involves creative, out-of-the-box thinking with a focus on “deal-making” that makes sense for business purposes. Many business disputes settle simply because a settlement is the best business solution. This is where experience counts for clients. Aeton’s attorneys have been involved in complex and creative deal making for years. Many successful deals are based on the attorney’s ability to predict likely range of outcomes and financial commitments involved for all sides.
However, there also are many times when “deal making” is just not possible or practical for the situation. Too often, the practical approach is met with hostility with emotions running high and relationships broken. These circumstances usually require aggressive and zealous representation with a lawsuit or arbitration. Early and aggressive lawsuits can include seeking an attachment of assets or an injunction at the outset of a case. In other cases, full bore litigation with all discovery tools utilized is necessary to bring a case to resolution.
Business litigation claims often involve an intersection of many different disciplines. Disputes may require the attorney to gain an understanding of the underlying business concerns and not merely the legal aspects. Typically, experts are also utilized for fact-finding and case building, including forensic accountants, computer and data experts, and damages experts. Aeton has worked with numerous experts to assist his clients in resolving disputes and recovering damages including experts in valuation, lost profits, consequential damages, and confidential information.
Aeton Law handles many different types of business lawsuits. Here are some of the cases we handle:
- Commercial Claims and Breach of Contract
- Computer Crime and Computer Fraud
- Shareholder and Partnerships
- Defense of Government Investigations
- Action for Accounting and Books and Records
- Fraud, Misrepresentation and Breach of Fiduciary Duty
- Theft of Trade Secrets and Confidential Information
- Breach of Non-Disclosure Agreements
- Non-compete and Non-solicitation
- Unfair Trade Practices
- Keyword and False Advertising
- Trade Libel and Defamation
- Software disputes and litigation
- Technology errors and omissions
- Trademark and Copyright Infringement
- Cyber Bullying
- Trademark infringement
- Copyright infringement
- Breach of Operating Agreement
- Dissolution of Corporation
- Dissolution of Limited Liability Company
At Aeton Law Partners LLP, we offer businesses transactional and litigation representation from lawyers with decades of combined legal experience. Our clients often ask us to identify risks and protect their interests in various aspects of business law. We combine our knowledge of drafting legal documents with our experience in handling lawsuits where similar questions or issues may have arisen to provide advice to our business clients. Having knowledge of both the transaction and litigation areas of the law is important to help clients mitigate business risks.
Conveniently located in the Hartford area, Middletown and New Haven, we have taken a modern approach to the practice of law. Our lean law approach takes full advantage of leading technology to reduce expenses while maintaining our highest priority goal of delivering exceptional legal representation. We strive to provide the best legal services at a cost-effective price with flexibility in the pricing models we offer for our transactional and litigation services. This flexibility allows our clients to retain legal services and counsel while planning their own budgets and outlooks.
BUSINESS LITIGATION | BREACH OF CONTRACT
Connecticut companies of all sizes face complications in the form of commercial disputes. These disagreements among businesses can quickly become complex, time consuming, and require significant financial resources to resolve.
Our firm takes a proactive approach to resolving commercial disputes, relying on our extensive experience and cost-effective approach to protect the financial and legal interests of our clients. We also advise and represent clients on matters that have already begun, and we work to find the most beneficial and cost-effective solutions for our clients. We handle a wide variety of business litigation matters, including cases involving the following:
- Vendor/customer disputes
- Partnership and shareholder disputes
- Partnership dissolution and breakups
- Minority shareholder rights
- Breach of fiduciary duty and duty of loyalty
- Theft of trade secrets and confidential information
- Breach of contract lawsuits
- Misrepresentation and fraud
- Derivative shareholder lawsuits
- The Connecticut Unfair Trade Practices Act
- Directors and officers liability
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