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Mr Gerry Silver
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Work Department
Litigation
Position
Gerry is the leader of Sullivan’s Litigation Group. He has unique experience in software, licensing, internet and IT outsourcing and implementation disputes. He also regularly represents clients in financial services disputes, IP disputes, Founder disputes, stock option disputes, employment discrimination/restrictive covenant litigation, and other business disputes. Gerry has substantial trial experience in state and federal courts throughout the country, in appellate proceedings, and in arbitration.
Gerry’s recent representations include Capgemini, Simplus (Infosys), RWS (formerly SDL), DarioHealth, Nano Dimension, Inspira, parcelLabs, CyberArk, Montran, Spotify, EY, VICE, Launch Capital, KLP Enterprises, Alliance Global Partners, Greenleaf Compassionate Care Center, The Jewish Agency For Israel and the World Zionist Organization. Gerry recently represented a Holocaust survivor against a wrongful taking of his property. Gerry also represents antique race car dealers and purchasers, including defending an action asserted by Jerry Seinfeld and commencing an action on behalf of Adam Levine.
Career
- New York
- U.S. District Court, Eastern District of New York
- U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York
- U.S. District Court, Northern District of Illinois
- U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
- U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
- U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
- U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
- Supreme Court of the United States
Memberships
- Member, Federal Bar Council, Second Circuit Courts Committee
Education
- Fordham University School of Law (J.D.)
- Fordham Law Review – Associate Editor
- State University of New York at Albany (B.S., magna cum laude)
- Accounting
Lawyer Rankings
United States > Dispute resolution > General commercial disputes
Attorneys at Sullivan & Worcester LLP routinely undertake the full spectrum of complex business-critical disputes, with standout expertise in securities litigation, insurance coverage disputes, and sector-specific disputes arising out of the tech and cryptocurrency spaces. Gerry Silver and Patrick Dinardo jointly chair the practice group out of New York and Boston, respectively. Silver’s practice focuses on software, licensing, internet and IT outsourcing, and implementation disputes; Dinardo is mostly engaged in complex contract, trust, real estate, and insolvency-related matters. Other important contacts within the group include fellow Boston-based practitioner Laura Steinberg who is an expert on complex regulatory and fiduciary issues.
Lawyer Rankings
Top Tier Firm Rankings
Firm Rankings
- Real estate > Real estate investment trusts (REITs)
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Corporate governance
- Finance > Fintech
- Environment > Environment: transactional
- Tax > International tax
- M&A/corporate and commercial > M&A: middle-market (sub-$500m)
- Investment fund formation and management > Mutual/registered/exchange-traded funds
- Real estate > Real estate
- Tax > US taxes: non-contentious
- Labor and employment > Employee benefits, executive compensation and retirement plans: design
- Dispute resolution > General commercial disputes
- Tax > US taxes: contentious
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Venture capital and emerging companies
- Investment fund formation and management > Private equity funds (including venture capital)