Commercial & Business Litigation

When disputes arise, financial services and fintech companies need litigators who understand both the courtroom and the regulatory backdrop against which their disputes play out. Shipkevich PLLC represents clients in commercial and business litigation, with particular strength in matters connected to the financial services, payments, and digital asset industries the firm knows well.

We handle contract and commercial disputes, partnership and shareholder disputes, disputes between financial companies and their counterparties or service providers, and litigation that grows out of regulatory or enforcement events. Our familiarity with the underlying regulation often shapes strategy in ways a general-practice litigator can miss — because in this industry, the business dispute and the regulatory exposure are frequently the same problem viewed from two angles.

Commercial and contract disputes. We represent clients in breach-of-contract claims, vendor and partner disputes, and the payment-processing and service-provider conflicts that are common in this sector.

Financial services and industry disputes. We handle disputes that turn on the rules governing regulated businesses, including those with a regulatory or enforcement dimension running alongside the civil claims.

Resolution strategy. We pursue resolution through litigation, arbitration, or negotiation, always with an eye to the regulatory and reputational consequences a financial services client cannot afford to ignore.

Representative Experience

• Represent a business debt-relief company in New York Supreme Court, obtaining a decision on its motion to compel arbitration and stay, or alternatively dismiss, claims by former customers.
• Defend debt-relief companies and affiliated law firms in consumer actions in the Eastern District of Virginia, Texas, Missouri, California, Florida, Illinois, Ohio, Colorado, and New York, including TCPA, Texas Telephone Solicitation Act, FCRA, UDAP, and putative class claims, coordinating local counsel where required.
• Represent a consumer lender in an Illinois class action alleging fraud and in a related California class action, working with national co-counsel on motions to compel arbitration and dismiss.
• Represent debt-resolution companies and their principals in bankruptcy trustee adversary proceedings and court-ordered mediation, and resolved trustee claims against a legal services provider by settlement.
• Co-counsel in an NFA arbitration against a major retail forex dealer; handle AAA consumer arbitrations, pre-suit TCPA demands, and post-judgment enforcement including debtor examinations and garnishment priority analysis.
• Responded to a federal grand jury subpoena issued by the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Nevada seeking third-party records from a consumer lender.
• Issued and enforced cease-and-desist demands for trademark infringement, defamation, and customer diversion on behalf of consumer lenders and debt-resolution companies, including against a foreign-language marketer.
• Represented a corporate client in a Chapter 11 proceeding before the U.S. Trustee, and earlier in his career litigated complex financial-institution cases nationwide and supervised professional-liability litigation against broker-dealers and banks for a global insurer.

Related practice areas: Investigations & Enforcement Defense · Crisis Management · Digital Asset Enforcement & Litigation