Rachel represents businesses and individuals in commercial disputes in state court, federal court, and arbitration, including before the American Arbitration Association and JAMS. With more than two decades of experience, she handles everything from multimillion dollar trials to emergency applications in the Commercial Division of the New York Supreme Court.
Examples of Commercial Disputes We Handle
- Breach of contract
- Business torts, including fraud, tortious interference, and unfair competition
- Partnership, shareholder, and LLC disputes
- Intellectual property disputes
- Restrictive covenant and non-compete disputes
- Injunctions, attachments, and other emergency relief
- Securities-related contract disputes
- Class actions
Representative Matters
- As first-chair counsel to Torres & Zheng, defeated a $9.9 million pre-judgment attachment motion in the Commercial Division of the New York Supreme Court, obtaining complete denial of the requested asset freeze for a corporate defendant in a securities-related contract dispute.
- Served as second-chair counsel to Krauss PLLC in a 12-day federal jury trial on behalf of a plaintiff who prevailed with a multimillion dollar judgment against former partners of an asset management firm, against adversaries represented by Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP.
- Teaming with other plaintiffs’ firms, achieved a multimillion dollar class-wide settlement on behalf of Pennsylvania landowners against Chesapeake Energy Corporation, arising from alleged improper royalty deductions.
Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome.
Experience Behind Every Case
Whether you are prosecuting or defending a business dispute, Rachel brings experience from multimillion dollar trials, AAA and JAMS arbitrations, and emergency applications in the Commercial Division of the New York Supreme Court. She began her career at Kirkland & Ellis and clerked for two federal judges.