Complex Commercial Litigation
Lead counsel in significant business disputes across federal and state courts, arbitration, and mediation, with precise, efficient, and determined advocacy when required.
Commercial litigation services →Modern Counsel. Serious Advocacy.
When the stakes are high, you need counsel who is both strategic and relentless.
Neil L. Postrygacz provides strategic counsel in complex commercial litigation and significant business matters, including international discovery and disputes involving emerging technology. He resolves what can be resolved efficiently and litigates relentlessly when it cannot.
About the Practice
Neil L. Postrygacz represents businesses, executives, and investors in complex commercial litigation and consequential disputes. He operates with a clear mandate: resolve what can be resolved swiftly and litigate relentlessly when it cannot.
Matters are handled across federal and state courts, arbitration, and mediation, with clients located throughout the United States and internationally. His approach is practical and decisive, taking on his clients’ legal burdens so they can remain focused on what they do best.
Practice Areas
Emerging Technology Matters
Disputes and strategic advisory involving emerging technology, digital platforms, and evolving business models, handled with commercial judgment and technical fluency.
Representative technology matters →Strategic Business Counsel
Strategic guidance at critical inflection points, including risk, negotiations, restructuring, and disputes, with a focus on protecting enterprise value.
Discuss a matter →Real Estate & Investment Matters
Counsel for complex real estate and investment matters with a practical approach grounded in the client's business objectives.
Discuss a real estate or investment matter →
International Discovery & Section 1782
U.S. discovery for use in qualifying foreign proceedings, including contested subpoenas, motions to quash and enforcement.
Section 1782 resource →
REPRESENTATIVE EXPERIENCE
Selected Results & Representative Matters
I represent businesses, executives, and entrepreneurs ranging from emerging companies and closely held businesses to established domestic and international enterprises in complex commercial, technology, and international disputes.
TRIAL VICTORY
Fit Body Nation Commercial Lockout
New York City Civil Court · 2026
Obtained an order restoring Fit Body Nation to possession after a contested commercial lockout trial in which the opposing side challenged the client's credibility.
Read Case Result → APPELLATE VICTORYMcDermott v. Chapski
140 A.D.3d 506 (1st Dep't 2016)
Obtained a unanimous First Department reversal vacating a default judgment and restoring the clients' ability to defend the action on the merits.
View Published Decision → FEDERAL DISMISSALZigler v. Featherstone Foods, Inc.
S.D.N.Y. · 2021
Obtained dismissal of tortious interference claims arising from an asserted right of first refusal in connection with a corporate acquisition.
View Federal Decision → BUSINESS OWNERSHIP DISPUTECupcake & Boomboom, LLC v. Aslani
2016 NY Slip Op 32310(U)
Defeated a motion to dismiss and sanctions application in a closely held business dispute involving ownership, management control, and fiduciary claims.
View Published Decision → HOSPITALITY / LLC DISPUTEKasen v. Mission Cantina, LLC
2018 NY Slip Op 51017(U)
Successfully opposed expedited summary judgment in a dispute involving a promissory note and authority under an LLC operating agreement.
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TECHNOLOGY & EMERGING INDUSTRIES
Representative Technology Matters
My experience includes sophisticated disputes involving digital assets, telecommunications, confidential technology, trade secrets, and emerging business models.
DIGITAL ASSETS / EMERGING TECHNOLOGY
SingularDTV GmbH v. LeBeau
S.D.N.Y. · 2021
Represented executives in federal litigation concerning Ethereum and other digital assets, custody of digital assets held in cold wallets, intellectual property, corporate email accounts, and control issues in TRO and preliminary injunction proceedings.
View Federal Docket → TECHNOLOGY / TRADE SECRETSNext Communications, Inc. v. Viber Media, Inc.
S.D.N.Y.
Represented telecommunications technology companies in federal litigation involving trade secrets, confidential technology, and NDA obligations. Core trade secret, contract, and unjust enrichment claims survived the defendant's motion to dismiss.
View Federal Docket → TELECOMMUNICATIONS / APPEALCronos Group Ltd. v. XComIP, LLC
156 A.D.3d 54 (1st Dep't 2017)
Represented an international telecommunications provider in a reported First Department decision addressing commercial contract interpretation, telecommunications billing, and allegedly fraudulent international call traffic. The court preserved the breach of contract claim and part of the account stated claim.
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INTERNATIONAL DISCOVERY
28 U.S.C. § 1782 Discovery for Foreign Proceedings
I have represented a petitioner in proceedings under 28 U.S.C. § 1782 in the Southern District of New York and the Southern District of Florida seeking U.S. discovery for use in Brazilian litigation, including subpoena enforcement, motions to quash and compel, confidentiality issues, and related discovery disputes.
Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Every matter depends on its particular facts and circumstances.
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