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Representative Clients and Matters

• Aldo Group: Lead counsel in Aldo’s ongoing defense of card brand and card issuer claims resulting from a substantial data security breach that the retailer discovered in early 2010.
• Destination Hotels and Resorts: Lead counsel in DH&R’s ongoing defense of the card brand claims stemming from the data security breaches suffered in 2010 by certain hotels in the DH&R chain.
• Genesco: Advising Genesco on how to address its various legal obligations and exposures resulting from a substantial data security breach that Genesco discovered in late 2010.
• Hannaford Brothers: Lead counsel in Hannaford’s ongoing defense of the card brand claims stemming from the data security breach announced by Hannaford in 2008.
• Heartland Payment Systems: Lead counsel in Heartland’s ongoing defense of the card brand claims, the card issuer class action, and the FTC investigation stemming from the data security breach announced by Heartland in 2009.
• Sony: Global coordinating counsel with respect to the multiple litigations and investigations that have arisen from the recent criminal cyber-attacks on certain of Sony’s computer networks.
• The TJX Companies: Lead counsel in TJX’s defense of the card brand claims and the card issuer class action stemming from the data security breach announced by TJX in 2007. The card brand claims were favorably settled, and the trial court dismissed almost all the class action claims and thereafter denied class certification of the few non-dismissed claims. The ensuing First Circuit appeal resulted in a substantial affirmance of the trial court’s decision by means of a groundbreaking opinion in the area of data security breach law.
• Wyndham Hotels & Resorts: Lead counsel in Wyndham’s ongoing defense of the card brand claims stemming from the data security breaches suffered by certain of the Wyndham-branded hotels in 2008–2010.
• SCOR: Co-lead counsel in SCOR’s defense of $100+ million claim brought in Massachusetts Superior Court alleging fraud, negligent misrepresentation, and violation of M.G.L. 93A in connection with a stock purchase agreement entered into between SCOR, a leading reinsurer based in France, and a Massachusetts-based hedge fund. The matter was settled following the trial court’s dismissal of several of the plaintiff’s claims.
• Whitefence: Lead counsel in Whitefence’s defense of an arbitration brought in Miami arising out of service and marketing agreements entered into between a Florida-based insurance company and Whitefence, a Texas-based operator of privately branded websites on behalf of property management companies and other entities in the residential real estate industry. The matter was favorably settled on the eve of trial.

• Chambers USA: America’s Leading Lawyers for Business (2011)
• Massachusetts Super Lawyers (2004, 2007-2011)

• Honorable Robert J. Ward, U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York (1980 - 1982)

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