Strategic Counsel for High-Stakes Business Disputes
Business disputes can threaten more than just the outcome of a single transaction. They can disrupt operations, strain key relationships, and expose a company or its principals to significant financial risk.
Kimura London & White LLP represents businesses, executives, entrepreneurs, investors, and professionals in complex commercial disputes throughout Pasadena, Los Angeles County, and California.
Our award-winning business litigation attorneys approach disputes with a clear objective: understand the business, identify the leverage, and develop a strategy designed to protect the client's position. Whether a matter can be resolved through negotiation or requires litigation through trial, our attorneys prepare with the same level of focus from the very beginning.
William O. London
Partner
Darrell P. White
Partner
Joshua M. Kimura
Partner
Business Litigation Matters We Handle
Our attorneys represent plaintiffs and defendants in a range of sophisticated business disputes, including:
- Breach of contract and commercial contract disputes
- Partnership, member, and shareholder disputes
- Breach of fiduciary duty claims
- Business fraud and fraudulent inducement
- Ownership and corporate governance disputes
- Real estate and commercial property disputes
- Construction-related business disputes
- Unfair competition and business tort claims
- Disputes involving executives, investors, and closely held businesses
- Complex commercial litigation involving substantial financial exposure
Every business dispute presents different risks. Some require immediate intervention. Others benefit from an early strategy designed to avoid prolonged litigation. KLW evaluates both the legal and business considerations involved before determining how a matter should proceed.
Business Disputes Require Business Judgment
Litigation does not happen in a vacuum.
For a company or business owner, the right legal strategy may need to account for cash flow, ownership interests, ongoing contracts, customers, employees, real estate, investors, and long-term business objectives.
Our attorneys work to understand those considerations before recommending a course of action.
In some matters, an early demand, negotiation, or mediation may create the best opportunity for resolution. In others, protecting the client requires aggressive motion practice, discovery, arbitration, or trial.
KLW is prepared for either path.
Contract Disputes
Contracts form the foundation of most commercial relationships. When one party fails to perform, misrepresents its obligations, or disputes the meaning of an agreement, the consequences can quickly become significant.
Our attorneys handle disputes involving commercial agreements, service contracts, purchase and sale agreements, operating agreements, partnership agreements, leases, development agreements, and other business arrangements.
We represent clients seeking to enforce contractual rights as well as businesses defending against substantial contractual claims.
Partnership and Shareholder Disputes
Disagreements among business owners can become some of the most difficult commercial disputes to resolve.
Conflicts may involve management authority, distributions, access to company information, alleged misuse of company assets, ownership percentages, fiduciary duties, buyouts, or efforts to remove or exclude another owner.
KLW represents partners, shareholders, LLC members, founders, investors, and businesses in ownership disputes where both financial interests and control of the company may be at stake.
Learn more about Partnership Disputes.
Business Fraud and Fiduciary Duty Claims
Commercial disputes sometimes involve more than a disagreement over a contract.
KLW represents clients in matters involving alleged fraudulent inducement, concealment, misrepresentation, misuse of company assets, conflicts of interest, and breaches of fiduciary duty.
These cases often require careful analysis of financial records, communications, transactions, and the relationships between the parties. Developing that factual record early can be critical to the direction of the case.
Trial-Ready Representation
A strong litigation strategy should consider the possibility of trial from the beginning.
KLW's attorneys represent businesses and individuals in California state and federal courts and have substantial experience handling complex litigation, evidentiary hearings, arbitration, mediation, dispositive motions, discovery, and trial.
Preparing a matter thoroughly can strengthen a client's position at every stage, including settlement negotiations.
The objective is not litigation for its own sake. It is to put the client in the strongest position to achieve a practical and favorable resolution.
Business Litigation Counsel in Pasadena
From our Pasadena office, Kimura London & White LLP represents businesses, owners, executives, and investors facing significant commercial disputes in Pasadena, the San Gabriel Valley, Los Angeles County, and throughout California, including clients with domestic and international business interests.
Learn more about Business & Corporate Legal Counsel.
Serving Pasadena's Diverse Business Community
Pasadena and the greater Los Angeles region are home to businesses, entrepreneurs, investors, and families with connections across the United States and international markets.
Kimura London & White LLP provides legal services in English, Spanish, Mandarin Chinese, Japanese, and Farsi, allowing our team to better serve clients navigating complex business and commercial matters across languages and cultures.
For companies and individuals involved in cross-border transactions, ownership disputes, commercial agreements, or litigation, clear communication can be especially important when significant business interests are at stake.
If your company is facing a business dispute, or you believe litigation may be approaching, contact Kimura London & White LLP to discuss the matter with our business litigation team.