Representative Experience Archive
Amundsen Davis serves multiple ongoing relationships as ERISA counsel for Employee Stock Ownership Plans (ESOPs), including providing ongoing advice and counsel on plan compliance and fiduciary duties, as well as preparing plan documents and participant communications.
Defended a steel fabricator in a personal injury action where the plaintiff fell from a steel beam at some height and was rendered quadriplegic. We advised our client to settle for an amount that was nominal compared to the verdict.
The client desired to withdraw from the New Urbanist development and develop the property as a conventional development.
Amundsen Davis obtained a defense verdict for a hospital in an emergency department case involving alleged wrongful death from a delay in triage, diagnosis, and treatment of a patient with a vertebral artery dissection and brain aneurysm.
Amundsen Davis represented an ESOP plan sponsor through multiple ESOP loan refinance transactions, including drafting and review of all loan documentation.
We defended our client against claims for negligence and strict products liability. After discovery and the use of expert witness opinion, we determined that the chain was not sold or manufactured by our client’s company and that the plaintiff may have misused the chain in carrying out his work. We filed a motion for summary judgment, and plaintiff elected to dismiss us.
Amundsen Davis’s real estate team represented a client who sought to create a New Urbanist design development upon ground leased for an 18-hole championship golf course.
Moses Suarez obtained a favorable defense settlement for hospital client in a catastrophic birth injury case in federal court involving OBGYN physicians employed by a Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC).
Amundsen Davis represented the buyer in a stock purchase transaction involving the seller’s ESOP. The project involved the termination of the ESOP and the distribution of benefits to participants.
Our client, the manufacturer of the plexiglass window on the machine, was defended against claims for negligence and strict products liability. After considerable discovery and the retention of an expert witness, we were able to convince plaintiff’s counsel to voluntarily dismiss our client.