Attorney, Marks & Sokolov
Philadelphia
An aorney in the Philadelphia office of Marks & Sokolov, Tom represents Western and Russian clients in complex commercial disputes including civil RICO, Foreign Corrupt Pracces Act, Convenon on the Internaonal Sale of Goods, ICC Arbitraon, legal malpracce, lender liability, securies fraud, insurance defense and marime maers. Tom has also draed and negoated consulng, employment, financing, joint venture, loan, procurement, purchase, sales, real estate and member/shareholder agreements.
Recent Representaons
Successful result for Ukraine based client in arbitraon maer before the Internaonal Chamber of Commerce in Paris, France related to an internaonal construcon dispute.
Represented internaonal client on commodity trading dispute governed by Convenon on the Internaonal Sale of Goods.
Recovered lost profits for a joint venture partner that was frozen out of the joint venture by the other partner.
Represented LLC members in a dispute regarding ownership and control against other LLC members.
Defended mortgage bankers against claims of fraud and regulatory violaons.
Removed a spouse from debt instruments where she was required to execute them in violaon of the Equal Credit Opportunity Act.
Defended employees accused of violang non-compete agreements and stealing proprietary informaon Tom has also successfully represented major internaonal petroleum companies on complex construcon ligaon maers, including:
The Caribbean subsidiary of Phillips Petroleum Company in a maer involving a business interrupon and property damage claim arising from a petrochemical construcon project.
Gulf Chemical Corporaon/Caribbean Petroleum Corporaon in the United States District Court, District of Puerto Rico in a construcon dispute that involved contract interpretaon.
Sunoco on maers related to construcon projects at its facilies in Puerto Rico and Pennsylvania.
