Olivier Salvagno

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• Played an important role in the firm’s successful representation of film and Broadway producer Marty Richards, establishing at the trial court, Appellate Division, and the Supreme Court of New Jersey, that Mr. Richards, as a surviving spouse of Mary Lea Johnson Richards, one of J. Seward Johnson Sr.'s children listed in a 1961 Charitable Lead Trust, was a beneficiary of the Trust entitled to distributions from the Trustees of the Trust. The Trust had a value at the time of the trial of approximately $300 to $350 million. The Supreme Court decision in this case can be viewed here.
• Counseled a physician who was co-founder, President, CEO, and 50 percent shareholder of a prominent emergency physician group in litigation against the physician who was the other 50 percent shareholder of the group, in which the relief sought included a preliminary and permanent injunction, remedies under the Oppressed Shareholder Statute, and damages for fraud, breach of fiduciary duty, breach of duty of loyalty, and mismanagement.
• Represented the developer of the retail portion of a ground-up mixed-use construction project in Essex County, in a seven-day arbitration against the developer of the residential portion of the project, involving disputes over “general conditions of construction” and “soft costs.”
• Successfully represented the owner of 25 percent interests in several related small businesses in a lawsuit against the principal owners of the businesses, alleging, among other causes of action, violations of the Oppressed Shareholder Statute.
• Successfully represented an accounting firm against a former employee accountant, in a suit alleging breach of the duty of loyalty, unfair competition, theft of confidential information, and violations of the New Jersey Computer-Related Offenses Act.
• Counseled three business entities and four of the five family members who were principals of those entities through an eight-year dispute that involved litigation, mediation, and arbitration against a fifth family member. The matter included claims for partition by sale of the family properties, breach of fiduciary duty, mismanagement, and other claims in connection with the business entities and properties.
• Represented one of the United States’ top hotel developers in litigation against an architect and several contractors relating to the rehabilitation and renovation of a first-class hotel property located in Somerset County, New Jersey.
• Represented one of the nation's largest providers of personal training services in litigation brought by an owner of a gym facility, alleging various business torts.
• Negotiated a favorable settlement on behalf of a registered home improvement contractor of an action involving Consumer Fraud Act claims.
• Played an important role in the firm’s successful defense of a Top 25 accounting firm against claims of professional malpractice. The Superior Court of New Jersey Appellate Division decision can be viewed here.
• Obtained dismissal, following a period of jurisdictional discovery, of two “upstream” corporate owners of a nursing home, in a lawsuit alleging claims under the New Jersey Nursing Home and Rights of Residents Act, negligence, gross negligence, and wrongful death.
• In connection with a New Jersey company's defense of a multinational corporation's lawsuit alleging misappropriation of its formulas and trade secrets, Mr. Salvagno played a substantial role in having certain misappropriation claims barred by the Court in in limine motion practice.