Sylvia E. Simson

Practice Details

• Languages
  French
  Fluent
• Firm Information
  Position

  Shareholder

  Firm Name

  Greenberg Traurig, LLP
• Representative Cases & Transactions
  Cases

  Experience: Representative Matters: Represents national bank in significant trust-related litigation across the country.
  Represents private equity firms
  their portfolio companies in a wide range of commercial disputes.
  Represented national bank in various putative class actions across the country arising out of the Coronavirus Aid, Relief,
  Economic Security Act
  the Paycheck Protection Program, resulting in dismissals with prejudice on dispositive motion practice
  without the need for any discovery.
  Represented global pharmaceutical company in a complex contractual dispute pending in the Southern District of New York arising out of a Collaboration
  License Agreement
  significant royalties owed with respect to sales of licensed pharmaceutical products, resulting in pretrial wins
  ultimately resolution of the case on the eve of trial.
  Represented global cosmetics company in four putative class actions alleging violations of the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act. Won several motions to dismiss for failure to state a claim, including being named as 'Legal Lion of the Week' by Law360 for one such decision.
  Represents space-based information services company in litigation arising out of significant master services agreement resulting in both international arbitration
  separate New York proceedings.
  Represents energy companies in complex litigation arising out of actual
  terminated transactions for the acquisition of energy projects in New York courts
  in arbitration.
  Represented national bank in putative class actions
  individual claims across the country relating to allegedly unauthorized digital payment
  other electronic fund transfers. Won motion to enforce arbitration
  class action waiver provisions of consumer agreements
  to compel individual arbitrations for all named Plaintiffs in both the Southern District of New York
  the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.
  Represents national bank in putative class action filed in the Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York alleging violations of the automatic stay.
  Represents national bank in putative class action filed in the Eastern District of New York concerning a service malfunction resulting in duplicate transactions. Won motion to enforce arbitration
  class action waiver provisions of consumer agreements
  to compel individual arbitrations for all named Plaintiffs.
  Represented national bank in complex interpleader litigation in the Southern District of New York involving counterclaims ranging from civil conspiracy to tortious interference with business relations. Won a motion to dismiss all counterclaims with prejudice as well as motion for traditional interpleader relief, including to interplead the funds
  for a full discharge of liability.
  Represented national battery manufacturer in putative class action in the Eastern District of New York relating to allegedly misleading advertising
  asserting, among other things, General Business Law violations. Won motion to dismiss all claims with prejudice, including reconsideration motion.
  Represented national bank in putative class action in the Southern District of New York relating to the imposition of allegedly usurious interest rates
  automatic billing processes associated with car leases, with the case dismissed at the outset.
  Represents national bank in putative class action filed in the Southern District of New York relating to fees levied in connection with check deposit returns. Won motion to enforce arbitration
  class action waiver provision of account agreement
  to compel individual arbitration.
  Represents national banks
  hedge funds as third parties in deal-related litigation
  securities putative class actions across the country, including in Delaware, Texas, Pennsylvania,
  New York.
  Represented national bank in complex litigation in New York Supreme Court, Kings County Commercial Division, involving the entitlement to multimillion-dollar proceeds under a promissory note exchanged in connection with a luxury car dealership sale. Won summary judgment without the need for any discovery, with the court finding the underlying contracts to be clear
  unambiguous in the client's favor.
  Represented LIPA
  PSEGLI in a complex dispute
  purported class action pending in New York Supreme Court, Suffolk County, arising out of the installation of electric utility poles, with allegations involving alleged property damage
  purported environmental exposure. Argued
  defeated class certification dem
  by Plaintiffs
  ultimately obtained complete dismissal of the litigation.
  Represented Seacor Holdings, Inc., O'Brien's Response Management,
  National Response Corporation in connection with various claims stemming from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, including in the largest multidistrict litigation to date, MDL 2179. Won motion to dismiss negligent firefighting class action as well as the related Fifth Circuit appeal. Won summary judgment motion dismissing tens of thous
  s of exposure claims on derivative immunity
  preemption grounds.
  Represented former shareholders of a chemical company
  a special purpose entity in a complex dispute in Delaware state court arising out of a $3.2 billion stock sale involving breach of contract, fraud,
  contribution claims under the New Jersey Spill Compensation
  Control Act.
  Represented Davol, Inc.
  C. R. Bard, Inc. in connection with various federal
  state court claims relating to its hernia mesh products
  inferior vena cava ('IVC') filters. Part of trial team that obtained full defense verdict in key IVC filter trial in New Orleans.
  Represented Pfizer in thous
  s of actions alleging that Lipitor caused claimants to develop type 2 diabetes. Successfully excluded Plaintiffs' general causation experts
  won summary judgment motion dismissing all claims, both upheld on appeal.
  Represented St
  ard Industries
  its affiliates in a complex declaratory judgment
  breach of contract case relating to responsibility for the remediation of a Superfund site.
  Represented Express Scripts in a seminal breach of contract jury trial in St. Louis, Missouri
  won a full defense verdict.
  Represented private equity firm Crestview in a contractual dispute involving its exit from an investment in a portfolio company.
  Represented KCBX Terminals Company
  Koch Carbon, LLC in a class action relating to the h
  ling of petroleum coke
  coal at transfer terminals in Chicago.
  Represented Colgate in alleged asbestos exposure personal injury actions in New Jersey.
  Represented Toyobo in False Claims Act litigation relating to fiber used to manufacture ballistic fabric in bullet-resistant vests.
  The above representations were h
  led by Ms. Simson prior to her joining Greenberg Traurig, LLP.
  Internship: Judicial Intern, Hon. Jerome Feller, U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Eastern District of New York, 2007
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