Jon R. Grabowski is a partner with the firm.
His practice includes handling commercial litigation and business disputes for his clients, including contract, breach of fiduciary duty, intellectual property, construction, environmental, reinsurance, and insurance disputes. Jon regularly practices before state and federal courts nationwide and before domestic and international arbitration panels.
Jon successfully represented an individual shareholder in a derivative action against a company’s founder for misappropriating several cryptocurrency related patents that the founder transferred to himself. Following a trial in the Supreme Court of New York’s Commercial Division, the Court awarded equitable relief to the company and required the founder to transfer ownership of the patents back to the company and also awarded $1,000,000 in punitive damages to the company against the company’s founder. On May 28, 2024, the First Department Appellate Division unanimously affirmed the trial court’s decision.
Jon has also handled several, complex multi-district litigations. For example, he represented a CTA fund that was the largest commodities customer of MF Global in In re MF Global Holdings Inc. Investment Litigation in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York in its case against the former officers and directors of the failed commodity brokerage and in related bankruptcy proceedings. He is currently representing the Village of East Hampton in the Aqueous Film-Forming Foams (AFFF) Products Liability Litigation pending in the U.S. District Court for the District of South Carolina.
Jon represents numerous clients across an array of industries involving complex and emerging legal matters, including a Japanese multinational corporation engaged in the medical systems business against claims of intellectual property misappropriation in Illinois state court and before the Japanese Commercial Arbitration Association in Tokyo, Japan. Jon also represented a reinsurance company in arbitrations arising out of the 2008 subprime mortgage financial crisis.
His practice also includes general corporate practice, mergers & acquisitions, formation of new businesses and structuring business transactions, drafting technology purchase agreements, and drafting intellectual property licensing agreements.