Michael A. Guerra

Counsel
Guerra Michael

Mike Guerra has experience in complex litigation in courts throughout New York and New Jersey, including for multidistrict litigations, large bankruptcy cases, and mass torts. Mike represents clients in a wide range of commercial disputes, including shareholder conflicts and breach of contract claims. He assists clients in high-stakes business conflicts across a variety of industries, including financial services, construction, pharmaceutical, private equity, hospitality, data brokers, SaaS, and special servicing.

Experience

Representative Matters

  • Serving in a key role as part of a virtual law firm representing a pharmaceutical company against product liability claims in a multi-district litigation
  • Defending breach of stock purchase agreement claims between defense contracting companies
  • Briefing an appeal before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit in defense of the district court’s post-trial damages award for breach of contract in the aviation industry
  • Defending a consulting and coaching company in a shareholder and intra-board dispute
  • Litigating a special proceeding in the Commercial Division of the New York State Supreme Court to stay an arbitration proceeding against former investment bankers of a large banking institution’s private equity group
  • Briefing a motion for reargument and/or for leave to appeal to the Appellate Division of the New York State Supreme Court, First Judicial Department
  • Defending an international cargo and shipping corporation in a dispute before the Federal Maritime Commission (FMC)
  • Defending the senior lender and various junior lenders in connection with inter-creditor disputes arising out of a multi-billion-dollar financing for a large residential complex in New York City

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Credentials
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Education

  • J.D. cum laude Fordham University School of Law 2013
  • B.A. cum laude University of Rochester 2006

Bar Admissions

  • New Jersey
  • New York

Court Admissions

  • U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey
  • U.S. District Court for the Northern District of New York
  • U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York
  • U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York