Yankwitt LLP successfully settled a breach-of-contract case on highly favorable terms for its client, a Westchester-based alternative investment management firm, in a dispute with a large private equity company over a failed transaction. The firm achieved a swift outcome that gave our client a significant return while avoiding the costs […]
A Yankwitt LLP litigation team led by partner Michael Reed successfully obtained an order compelling arbitration and staying litigation proceedings in a six-figure employment suit filed against global biotech company Regeneron Pharmaceuticals in New York State Supreme Court, Westchester County. The plaintiff, who appeared pro se, alleged breach of contract, […]
WHITE PLAINS, NY (March 18, 2026) – Yankwitt LLP, Westchester County’s go-to law firm for high-stakes, bet-the-company litigation, is proud to announce that eight of its attorneys have been honored with inclusion in Hudson Valley Magazine’s 2026 Top Lawyers in the firm’s core practice areas: commercial litigation, civil law litigation, […]
One of the most aggressively litigated issues in arbitration law is the scope of the Federal Arbitration Act (“FAA”). A particularly hot button topic is the construction of Section 1 of the FAA, aka the transportation worker exception, which excludes “contracts of employment of seamen, railroad employees, or any other […]
Yankwitt LLP has successfully settled a high-stakes federal lawsuit on behalf of Regeneron, a global biotechnology company headquartered in Westchester County, New York, arising from Regeneron’s multi-billion-dollar campus expansion in Tarrytown, New York. The case was brought by Skanska USA Building, one of the world’s largest construction companies, in the […]