Professional Dispute Resolution
Todd A. Higgins, Esq.
About Higgins ADR
Experience Matters
Todd A. Higgins, Esq., is a professional arbitrator and mediator with more than twenty-two years of prior experience counseling individuals and businesses on complex transactions and sophisticated commercial disputes. Mr. Higgins leverages his experience to assist parties in resolving conflict as an advisor, neutral settlement facilitator, mediator, or independent arbitrator.
Experience
Higgins ADR LLC possesses significant experience counseling entrepreneurs, senior executives, corporate boards, and investors from start-up through public exit, and representing parties on both sides of the table in sophisticated commercial disputes involving:
Complex Contract Claims
Extensive experience with complex contract disputes across numerous industries including manufacturing, supplier-distributor relationships, financial services, real estate, hospitality, technology, fashion, education, and research and marketing.
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Fraud and Misappropriation
Extensive experience with complex commercial disputes involving claims for fraud and misappropriation, including fraudulent inducement, concealment, embezzlement, fraudulent transfers, breaches of reps and warranties, and violations of fiduciary duties.
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Corporate Governance and Derivative Claims
Extensive experience with complex corporate disputes involving shareholder and derivative disputes, including self-dealing, compliance with operating agreements and bylaws, deadlocks, board oversight, risk management and equity issuances.
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Business Dissolution
Extensive experience with complex business dissolution matters, including partnership and corporate dissolution, buy-sell agreements, and asset sales.
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Securities and Fiduciary Violations
Extensive experience with securities matters and fiduciary disputes, across forums including FINRA-DR, state and federal courts, involving the Securities Act and specifically Securities Exchange Act Rule 10b-5, as well as alleged violations of NYSE and FINRA Rules, unsuitability, unauthorized transactions and failure to supervise, and alleged claims for breach of fiduciary duty, fraud, negligence, breach of contract, Rule 144A of the Securities Act of 1933, and I.R.C. Section 1031 Qualified Intermediary regulations
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Intellectual Property Infringement and Licensing
Extensive experience with complex claims involving trade secrets, copyright, trademark, trade dress, false advertising, unfair competition and dilution.
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Unfair Competition
Extensive experience with complex claims arising under the Sherman Antitrust Act and state misappropriation laws including New York’s Deceptive Practices Act and Connecticut's Unfair Trade Practices Act (CUTPA), involving alleged price fixing, product tying, refusals to deal, monopolization, and unfair competition.
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Cross-border Disputes
Extensive experience with complex cross-border matters across industries and in various forums including federal district courts, the International Centre for Dispute Resolution (ICDR), and the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), involving registration of foreign judgments, alleged cyber-squatting concerning overseas companies, the United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods (CISG), post-judgment collection efforts abroad, recognition of a foreign representative and foreign main proceeding pursuant to 11 U.S.C. §§ 1517(a) and 1517(b)(1) of the Bankruptcy Code.
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