Dona Szak

Ms. Szak represents clients in business and commercial matters. She has taken cases through all stages of litigation: pre-lawsuit investigation, trial, appeal, and judgment collection. She has designed and implemented strategies for resolving complex commercial problems. By conducting preventive counseling, she has helped her clients achieve favorable resolutions to their business controversies, often without the necessity of filing or defending lawsuits.

Representative Matters

• Advised a foreign corporation on its obligations under United States law, including antitrust law, arising from transactions with United States businesses.
• Recovered investment losses sustained by a corporation and its pension fund resulting from a hedge fund's collapse.
• Represented an automotive parts supplier in a lawsuit against a major automobile manufacturer for misrepresentation and breach of contract. Negotiated a business resolution of the parties' dispute.
• Obtained dismissal for want of personal jurisdiction in several actions brought against non-resident companies.
• Obtained dismissal of claims that the firm's client breached a contract to sell shares of corporate stock.
• Obtained dismissal of an investor's claims arising from a default in payment of commercial paper issued by a foreign corporation.
• Recovered payment of suppliers' claims against companies that had filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy through use of essential vendor and foreign vendor orders.
• Recovered damages owed due to supplier's delivery of substandard raw materials.
• Defended a professional sports figure against a former assistant's claims for breach of contract and harassment.
• Prepared contracts, settled contract disputes and resolved sales issues arising under the Uniform Commercial Code and the United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods.
• Represented creditors in bankruptcy proceedings.
• Resolved claims involving allegations of environmental contamination, property devaluation and toxic releases.
• Represented clients before state and federal regulatory agencies.