George W. Mykulak, Partner

Non-Franchise/Distribution Work

• Successfully represented world’s largest online marketplace for finding and managing family care in connection with a variety of litigations, mediations, and threatened litigations
  • Obtained dismissals of two New Jersey state court actions, one based on Section 230 immunity under the CDA.
  • Successfully mediated pre-litigation disputes in California and Tennessee.
• Successfully defended the acquiring entity under a merger agreement in a declaratory judgment action filed by one of the sellers seeking the release from escrow of shares of stock held as security for indemnity obligations. Obtained a ruling from the Northern District of New York dismissing the case based on the statute of limitations and a subsequent affirmance from the Second Circuit.
• Represented landlords, developers, landowners, brokers, lenders, and other commercial entities on a variety of real estate, contract, and lending issues, including environmental, construction, eminent domain, condominium, easement, letters of credit, and work-out/foreclosure controversies.
• Successfully represented a national retailer in Massachusetts state court litigation seeking contractual and statutory indemnity and damages from the seller under a real estate purchase agreement and its officers and directors as a result of contamination found in the soil after the closing.
• Represented a lender in pursuing receiverships in Massachusetts federal court in aid of state court foreclosure proceedings and a landowner in Massachusetts state court in resolving a long-standing easement dispute.
• Successfully represented Chapter 11 debtor in what was at the time the largest real estate restructuring in New England.