Jason A. Snyderman

Mergers and Acquisitions Litigation

• Trial counsel to a major U.S. chemical manufacturer in connection with an indemnification dispute arising out of the sale of one of its business divisions and a resulting liability post-separation exceeding $500 million.
• Lead counsel to a national retailer in connection with alleged claims of fraudulent representations and warranties arising out of the sale of three companies in a $320 million transaction.
• Lead counsel for a national telecommunications provider and a private equity investor in a dispute arising out of on asset purchase acquisition of a regional communications company.
• Lead counsel to a major event services technology provider in a dispute alleging successor liability following an acquisition relating to an asset purchase of a competitor; obtained complete dismissal of all claims.

Trade Secret and Intellectual Property Litigation

• Lead counsel to various companies and employees in litigation over employees’ restrictive covenants and claims of unfair competition, theft, and/or disclosure of trade secrets in various industries including software, education, clinical trials, accounting, packaging, and medical devices.
• Lead counsel to company accused of misappropriation of confidential beverage formulations used to develop competing products.
• Lead counsel to an online jewelry retailer in trade secrets and unfair competition litigation against former employees who misappropriated data analytics, designs, and other confidential information to form a competing business.
• Lead counsel in high-profile trade secrets dispute arising out of employee theft of trade secrets involving chemical formulations for metallization pastes developed for the photovoltaic industry. After successfully obtaining a temporary restraining order preventing the defendant from establishing a competing entity in China, civil litigation resulted in a significant confidential judgment.
• Represented a large national security company in multimillion-dollar trade secrets dispute arising out of the award of a significant government contract from the U.S. Navy.
• Lead counsel to one of the world’s largest manufacturers of sensors essential for use in today’s steel, iron, and aluminum industries in multiple patent litigation matters. 
• Successfully defended a major Internet security company in patent infringement lawsuit involving two-factor authentication; obtained summary judgment of non-infringement later affirmed by the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals.
• Lead counsel for one of the United States’ largest environmental testing companies in successful defense of trademark infringement and related claims, including denial of preliminary injunctive relief after three-day federal court hearing.
• Lead counsel to a leading software technology company and its principal in a series of actions involving copyright infringement, misappropriation of trade secrets, and breach of contract resulting from its major competitor’s use of substantially similar materials received from a former customer.

Complex Commercial and Shareholder Litigation

• Lead counsel to an energy solutions provider specializing in the production, supply, and transportation of Renewable Natural Gas (“RNG”), Liquefied Natural Gas (“LNG”), and Compressed Natural Gas (“CNG”) in connection with shareholder disputes and corporate governance litigation.
• Lead trial counsel in commercial lease dispute successfully tried to verdict and affirmed on appeal.
• Lead counsel to a majority member of a Pennsylvania limited liability company in connection with claims alleging breach of fiduciary duty and shareholder oppression.
• Lead counsel in derivative action filed by minority shareholders of an online retailer alleging breach of fiduciary duties, RICO, and minority shareholder oppression claims.
• Lead counsel to a major international global plastics products design and engineering company in multiple commercial disputes with a leading worldwide food-products conglomerate arising out of a series of complex distribution and manufacturing agreements.
• Lead counsel to a pharmaceutical company in a commercial dispute alleging the breach of an exclusivity agreement providing our client with the exclusive negotiating rights to acquire a major manufacturer of pharmaceuticals; obtained large monetary settlement shortly after the complaint was filed.
• Lead counsel to a law firm in connection with RICO and related claims asserted by an international insurance company.
• Lead counsel to a major U.S. oil services company in a high-profile dispute relating to a large environmental remediation project in South Carolina. Though sued for multiple millions in purported damages, after nearly 30 depositions were taken and shortly before a seven-week trial was to begin, the case was successfully resolved without the client having to pay anything.
• Lead trial counsel for one of Pennsylvania’s largest power utilities in multiple property damage jury trials.

Class Action Litigation

• Successfully defeated class certification on behalf of a national bank in a consumer class action alleging RICO liability based on the bank’s alleged failure to properly monitor Automated Clearing House (“ACH”) transactions for telemarketing and Internet merchant consumers.
• Successfully defended one of the region’s largest health insurers in class actions filed by a putative class of physician providers. Denial of class certification alleging improper reimbursement practices later affirmed by both the Pennsylvania Superior and Supreme Courts.
• Counsel to a health knowledge products and services provider, in national putative class action alleging unsolicited fax advertising under the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (“TCPA”); successfully obtained complete pre-discovery dismissal of class action complaint.
• Counsel to a hardware manufacturer and wholesaler, in national putative class action alleging unsolicited fax advertising under TCPA; obtained a successful class-wide settlement. 

Banking and Trust Litigation

• Lead counsel to a major U.S. bank in connection with claims asserted by noteholders alleging breaches of a trust indenture agreement.
• Lead counsel for an international trust company in a wrongful levy action relating to assets held in an offshore trust levied by the United States. 
• Lead counsel for an offshore trust company in litigation filed by the United States Department of Justice Tax Division seeking repatriation of assets.

Constitutional and Political Litigation

• Representation of various elected officials in connection with constitutional challenges to Pennsylvania’s abortion funding laws.
• Representation of the President Pro Tempore of the Pennsylvania Senate in connection with multiple redistricting matters asserting partisan gerrymandering challenges relating to the constitutionality of Pennsylvania’s Congressional Districts.
• Successfully represented Pennsylvania’s Governor and Secretary of Education in a series of seven lawsuits in Pennsylvania’s Supreme Court, Commonwealth Court, and county courts as well as U.S. District Court and the Third Circuit Court of Appeals, in actions relating to the alleged “takeover” of the Philadelphia School District.

Tort Litigation

• Lead counsel to a commercial manufacturer in connection with toxic tort (lead) exposure claim resulting in workplace injury. Successfully obtained dismissal of all claims affirmed on appeal.
• Lead counsel to a refiner of specialty alloys in connection with fatal furnace explosion.
• Lead counsel in wrongful death action relating to a high-profile fatality of a collegiate athlete on campus.
• Lead counsel to a manufacturer of probes used in steelmaking in connection with a products liability action arising out of a fatal explosion in an electric arc furnace; obtained successful dismissal of all claims. 
• Successfully represented a major pharmaceutical company in 17 Pennsylvania-based lawsuits involving its prescription opioid pain medication.