Lou is an internationally recognized trial lawyer who has tried more than 50 complex commercial cases before judges, juries, and arbitral and governmental bodies. He has successfully litigated more than a dozen high-stakes controversies, each approaching or exceeding a billion dollars.
Experience
Representative matters
Representative matters
Antitrust: Involving the world's largest vitamins cartel; separate FTC proceeding involving pharmaceutical life cycle management; separate litigations under sections 1 and 2; leading decisions in trial and appellate court on market definition and monopolistic practices.°
Breach of contract: Including successfully defending against $750 million damages claim against Forbes 20 company, with the trial court win affirmed on appeal in the Second Circuit; separate representation at damages phase of trial over sale of bottling distribution routes.°
Complex Commercial: Including $100+ million trial on indemnities for the sale of aircraft manufacturing facilities; separate financial services litigations; separate representation succeeding in upholding transfer restrictions in one of America's largest privately held companies.°
Representative Experience
Antitrust: Involving the world's largest vitamins cartel; separate FTC proceeding involving pharmaceutical life cycle management; separate litigations under sections 1 and 2; leading decisions in trial and appellate court on market definition and monopolistic practices.°
Breach of contract: Including successfully defending against $750 million damages claim against Forbes 20 company, with the trial court win affirmed on appeal in the Second Circuit; separate representation at damages phase of trial over sale of bottling distribution routes.°
Complex Commercial: Including $100+ million trial on indemnities for the sale of aircraft manufacturing facilities; separate financial services litigations; separate representation succeeding in upholding transfer restrictions in one of America's largest privately held companies.°
Contract Government Regulation: The development of Manhattan's West Side Stadium and the United States' bid for the Olympics; separate class action litigation involving the meadowlands football stadium; major litigation on behalf of Verizon involving the entire FiOS franchise for New York City.°
Copyright: Involving the world's largest Internet site (Google/YouTube).°
Corporate Governance/Shareholder Action: Including in trials in New York and Delaware and many other states.°
Environmental: Major trials involving spill site in Rhode Island; separate trial involving environmental contamination at 15 aircraft manufacturing plants across the US.°
False advertising and unfair competition: Involving the largest bottled water and vitamin water products in the U.S. and the world, respectively, obtaining an precedent-setting decision on preemption in nationwide class actions.°
Financial/Securities: Including disputes over complex financial products.° Representation of Brevet Capital in state and federal litigation involving wrongful charge and computer hacking claims. Representation of Bank of New York Mellon in various trustee/custodial-relationship litigations. Representation of Mimedx in state and federal litigations.
International: U.S. and International trial and ADR matters for clients such as BSGR, Dover, Eletson, FIFA, GNC, Bouygues, Goodyear, PepsiCo (worldwide), and many others.°
International Art/Ownership/Replevin: Involving defense of a world-leading museum involving allegedly Nazi-looted German expressionist paintings -- successful dismissal affirmed by Second Circuit; separate litigation over the most famous Brancusi sculpture, Miss Pogany.°
Insurance/Reinsurance: Including multiple trials securing over $2 billion in coverage for policyholders. Representation of Anthem/Empire.
IP/Patent/Technology: Including trials involving the world's largest ethical pharmaceutical product; separate case involving on-line mapping in the real estate industry, including leading Federal Circuit claim construction ruling; separate cases involving TMT technology for Huff Companies; separate case for Fox News. He secured an important victory in the U.S. Federal Circuit Court on behalf of Real Estate Alliance Ltd. in a patent case involving more than 35 real estate industry defendants who allegedly infringed on the company's pioneer patent describing mapping methods for locating available real estate properties for sale, lease, or rental.°
License, development agreements, non-competes: Including successful multi-billion dollar arbitration involving one of the world's best-selling cancer products.°
Pharma/Biotech: Including brand pharma companies, generics, developers.°
Real Estate Development/Construction: Including matters for development, operators, contractors in New York, other states, and internationally.°
Restructuring: Including trials in bankruptcy and district court; two major trials involving the largest dissolution case in New York history as well as the Puerto Rico bankruptcy.
Securities/Corporate Governance: Including SEC, FCPA, and internal investigations.°
Recognitions
Recognized as a BTI Client Service All-Star by BTI Consulting Group for delivering outstanding client service and exceeding the expectations of in-house legal decision-makers, 2026
Recognized in the prestigious, client-selected Thomson Reuters Stand-Out Lawyers listing for 2026
- Listed, NYCLA Conspicuous Service Award, 2020
Credentials
Education
Education
- Harvard Law School, 1979, J.D., magna cum laude
- Yeshiva University, 1976, B.A., summa cum laude
Professional admissions & qualifications
Professional admissions & qualifications
- New York
Court admissions
Court admissions
- U.S. Supreme Court
Professional affiliations
Professional affiliations
- President (Parnas), Congregation Shearith Israel, America’s Oldest Jewish Congregation
- Member, Lawyers Committee of the National Center for State Courts (NCSC)
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