Commercial Litigation & Business Disputes
Levin & Associates is retained for business disputes where the outcome turns on leverage, evidence, and speed—not simply contract interpretation. These matters often sit alongside real-world pressures: banking constraints, regulatory sensitivity, reputational exposure, cross-border counterparties, and situations where a misstep in civil litigation can create parallel risk.
The firm represents sophisticated institutions and high-profile businesses, including Columbia University, Aeropostale, and China Construction Bank, as well as executives, founders, and investors facing consequential disputes.
Why a former prosecutor matters in a civil case
Many commercial disputes are, in practice, investigations. The decisive evidence is frequently held by third parties—banks and custodians, payment processors, accountants, vendors, platforms, counterparties, and former employees—and the litigation is won by building a clean record quickly, forcing clarity early, and using targeted process to obtain the documents that actually decide the case.
The firm is led by Duncan Levin, a former federal prosecutor and former Chief of Asset Forfeiture in the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office. That background translates directly to high-stakes civil litigation: disciplined fact development, rigorous testing of theories against documents, and an instinct for how adversaries behave once subpoenas issue, witnesses are deposed, and external scrutiny begins.
How Levin & Associates litigates
- Early case engineering: structured timelines, documentary roadmaps, and witness sequencing designed to surface favorable facts before the dispute is defined by the other side’s narrative
- Third-party leverage: identifying the institutions and intermediaries that hold the key proof, and using targeted discovery to obtain it efficiently
- Emergency relief: TROs, preliminary injunctions, and other provisional remedies where assets, confidentiality, IP, or business continuity are at risk
- Parallel-risk awareness: navigating disputes with regulatory sensitivity or potential criminal referral without creating avoidable admissions, waiver problems, or collateral consequences
- Settlement strength: resolving cases from a position of credibility and trial readiness, grounded in what a judge will do and what the record will support
Where the firm is most often engaged
- High-value disputes and business torts
- Partnership, shareholder, and founder disputes, including fiduciary-duty and governance conflicts
- Fraud and misrepresentation matters, including “follow-the-money” disputes where bank records and third-party documentation drive the case
- Cross-border and multi-jurisdiction disputes, including matters involving foreign counterparties and overseas evidence
- Reputationally sensitive disputes requiring discretion and controlled communications
Levin & Associates brings senior-level attention, discretion, and a credible trial posture to each matter—aimed at decisive resolution without unnecessary theatrics.
