Peter Ligh focuses on complex commercial litigation and arbitration of disputes. He represents clients in a range of matters, including antitrust, securities, intellectual property, class actions and internal investigations and his clients include media companies, pharmaceutical companies, computer technology companies, energy companies, investment and commercial banks, hedge funds and private equity firms, independent audit committees, members of Congress and the City of New York.
Peter began his legal career as an intern for the Honorable Sonia Sotomayor of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and for the Honorable Naomi Reice Buchwald of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.
Experience
“I like winning, and I like making our clients happy. There are times when clients are happy to reach a negotiated settlement because their exposure and risk could have been much higher, but for the most part, clients are happy when we win-and so I am.”
Experience
Won a dismissal of a nationwide putative class action against an insurance company involving alleged misrepresentations in policy advertising materials.
Defended against allegations of contamination or threatened contamination of groundwater from the use of gasoline additive MTBE.
Won an arbitration on behalf of Vitol in a dispute with ICC Chemical Corp. over the sale of mixed xylenes to ICC.
Represents a plaintiff investment bank in a dispute over a breached asset purchase agreement.
Defended a large offshore drilling company and certain of its officers and directors in 10b-5, Section 14, and investor class actions and related shareholder derivative cases filed after the 2010 oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.
Obtained dismissal of Section 10(b) class action claims against a German national.
