On June 20, 2025, the Colorado District Court for Pitkin County granted CSV client Hillary Thomas’s motion for sanctions against Genstar Capital chairman and managing partner Jean-Pierre Conte and his counsel at Glaser Weil Fink Howard Avchen & Shapiro LLP. Ms. Thomas sought sanctions for the improper redaction of the…
On June 13, 2025, five months after it settled charges that it lied to the CFTC in order to bolster the listing of a bitcoin futures contract, Gemini filed a complaint with the CFTC’s Inspector General under the auspices of raising concerns about the conduct of the Division of Enforcement…
On May 29, 2025, New York State Supreme Court Justice Andrea Masley approved a settlement that CSV negotiated and inked earlier in the month in a derivative case brought by EOS Products co-founder Sanjiv Mehra, against his former business partner Jonathan Teller and EOS employee Sarah Slover. The settlement achieves…
On Monday, April 21, 2025, the SEC declined to file an amended complaint against CSV’s client Richard Heart, cementing a complete victory for Mr. Heart in the SEC’s case against him and several cryptocurrency projects. In a February ruling, U.S. District Judge Carol Bagley Amon dismissed all the SEC’s claims…
On March 27, 2025, the New York Appellate Division, First Department, unanimously ruled in favor of Clark Smith Villazor clients Knighthead Capital Management, Certares Opportunities, and investment funds they manage (“Plaintiffs”) on their challenge to a Supreme Court decision granting private-equity firm Fortress Investment Group LLC’s motion to quash a subpoena…
On March 3, 2025, Plaintiff United Atlantic Ventures, LLC (“UAV”) filed its opposition to a motion to stay on the basis of temporary presidential immunity (the “Motion”) filed by President Donald J. Trump and joined by the other Defendants in the lawsuit captioned United Atlantic Ventures, LLC v. TMTG Sub…
Primula Management, LLC (“Primula”) filed a lawsuit today in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York alleging that Primrose School Franchising Company LLC and Primrose School Franchising SPE, LLC (collectively, “Primrose”) misappropriated Primula’s proprietary confidential trade secrets. Primrose operates a network of over 500 franchised…
In a rare ruling dismissing all claims brought by the SEC, United States District Judge Carol Bagley Amon ordered the dismissal of the SEC’s complaint naming Richard Heart and several of his cryptocurrency projects, HEX, PulseChain and PulseX. The Court found the SEC’s allegations purportedly establishing personal jurisdiction insufficient, and…
Clark Smith Villazor LLP and Schwartz | Breslin PLLC are proud to announce that today in the United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida, they filed a class action lawsuit lawsuit captioned Alice Rosenblum v. Passes Inc., et al., against Passes Inc. (“Passes”), a social media platform, Lucy Guo, its founder…
On February 13, 2025, Clark Smith Villazor, on behalf of its clients Silverpeak Strategic Partners LP and Phoeninca Investments LLC filed a complaint against Baker & McKenzie LLP, Baker & McKenzie International, and Estudio Luis Echecopar García S.R.L., a member firm of Baker & McKenzie International in the New York…
