Firm shareholder Derek Brandt brings his extensive complex litigation experience - and tremendous results to our Business and Commercial Litigation group. Derek's practice focuses on the representation and counseling of business entities in contract actions, fraud actions, and other business torts. His clients have ranged from individuals involved in complex business disputes to Fortune 100 companies. He has broad experience with financial matters, recently representing the asset management arm of a major U.S. financial services company in litigation stemming from a failed international syndicated loan transaction. Derek played a lead role in a complex $115 million product liability action against a jumbo-jet airframe manufacturer, based on the crash of a widebody aircraft at Newark International Airport in 1997. In 2001, he won a landmark summary judgment ruling in the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey, in what is believed to be the largest air-cargo claim ($11 million) in U.S. history. He has also focused on ERISA and fiduciary duty obligations, with experience counseling and representing entities ranging from Fortune 100 companies to municipalities and municipal organizations with respect to pharmacy benefit manager (PBM) function, evaluation, and litigation. He has been interviewed as a regular commentator on PBM issues in the healthcare landscape and has lectured on this topic before meetings of several Taft-Hartley and municipal organizations.
