Our representations include:

• Abbott Laboratories in pursuing lawsuits against three former employees for downloading confidential documents upon their departure and for breach of non-solicitation agreements.
• Air Lease Corporation in defending against and resolving allegations of trade secret theft, aiding and abetting breach of fiduciary duty, and unfair competition brought by International Lease Finance Corporation (ILFC) relating to the formation of Air Lease by Steven Udvar-Hazy after he retired from ILFC.
• Amgen, in bringing a trade secret action in state court against a competitor firm and a former Amgen executive for misappropriating trade secrets related to Amgen’s groundbreaking oncology drug Neulasta®. After defeating a motion for summary judgment, we achieved a favorable settlement, including a multi-year royalty, the day before opening arguments in a lengthy jury trial.
• An investment fund and a lead fund investor in winning a motion to dismiss a lawsuit, filed by a technology company in the Northern District of California, that accused one of the fund’s portfolio companies of misappropriating trade secrets and ten other causes of action related to the alleged theft of trade secrets by an inventor who moved from plaintiff’s company to the portfolio company.
• Applied Materials, Inc., in:
  • A federal criminal case and a civil lawsuit against former executives who conspired to misappropriate trade secrets and a company started by one of the executives. In the civil case, we successfully argued on appeal that the matter should move forward as a unified proceeding and resisted efforts to compel it to potentially conflicting individual arbitrations.
  • Obtaining voluntary dismissal of litigation filed by ASM America, Inc., in an Arizona federal court, that sought to enjoin a former ASM employee, from working for Applied in South Korea. We later moved for attorneys’ fees in federal court and on the eve of that hearing, the parties reached a confidential settlement.
• Brian Armstrong, the CEO of Coinbase, in forcing to arbitration an intellectual property dispute brought by blockchain accelerator MouseBelt Labs, which alleges Armstrong used a possible investment allegedly as a ploy to access the confidential information and then misappropriated its trade secrets for a competing project.
• Carrington Mortgage Services and an executive in settling litigation alleging that Carrington and the executive engaged in improper encouragement of Freedom Mortgage Company employees to join Carrington en masse, allegedly inducing the theft of trade secrets and aiding and abetting breaches of employee non-solicitation agreements.
• Checkr and Hone Data LLC, in settling trade secret litigation after discovering the alleged secret, a compilation of codes, was publicly available on the internet.
• DoubleLine Capital LP and certain of its founders, including CEO Jeffrey Gundlach, in winning a $66.7 million jury verdict in favor of Gundlach against his former employer, Trust Co. of the West (TCW), on his cross-complaint. TCW originally brought suit against Mr. Gundlach and DoubleLine Capital, claiming breach of fiduciary duty, trade secret theft and tortious interference in connection with a large-scale departure of employees to DoubleLine Capital after Mr. Gundlach was fired. The jury awarded no damages on TCW’s complaint against DoubleLine Capital and the individual defendants.
• First Student, Inc., the nation’s largest school bus company, in achieving a confidential settlement in trade secret litigation with Zum Services, Inc., after First Student alleged that Zum hired one of its employees to help Zum compete for a San Francisco Unified School District contract.
• Fortress Investment Group, in obtaining a complete defense verdict in a five-week bench trial in a lawsuit filed by a life settlement investment fund seeking more than $200 million in damages and bringing claims of misappropriation of trade secrets, breach of fiduciary duty, fraud, unfair competition and breach of contract.
• A venture capital firm and its partner in winning a motion to dismiss with prejudice a lawsuit alleging trade secret misappropriation and ten other causes of action, including CFAA, RICO and related state law claims related to the alleged theft of intellectual property by an inventor who joined a company the venture capital firm invested in and allegedly disclosed the trade secret to the venture capital firm in due diligence.
• Intel Corporation, in two separate actions filed in federal court against former employees who took Intel’s confidential and trade secret information. We obtained temporary restraining orders and preliminary injunctions in both matters, as well as expedited discovery, to protect against further dissemination of the information and compel the return of all misappropriated materials.
• Snap, Inc., against charges it infringed the patents of a social mapping application and misappropriated alleged trade secrets by allegedly accessing a beta test of the app.
• Ten-X, an online real estate marketplace, in obtaining a preliminary injunction and then later a cash settlement, a public apology, and certain ongoing restrictions against Commercial Real Estate Exchange (CREXi) and its CEO in litigation alleging breach of contract, breach of fiduciary duty, and misappropriation of trade secrets.