Avi Benayoun

With nearly two decades of experience, Avi Benayoun is a skilled litigator who works with clients to develop tailored strategies for approaching complex legal matters, while leveraging modern-day technology to deliver efficient legal services. With a background rooted in finance and economics, he is a business-focused commercial litigator with deep experience handling complex commercial disputes in virtually every forum. This includes litigation on behalf of Fortune 500, middle market, and start-up companies, as well as individuals.

Avi also has deep eDiscovery and eRetention experience which makes him particularly valuable as he can, and often does, eliminate the need to hire separate counsel to address and handle complex eDiscovery and eRetention requirements present in nearly every modern-day litigation matter.

Concentrations

•Mergers and acquisitions litigation
•Corporate governance and disputes
•Contract disputes
•Real estate litigation
•Commercial and residential foreclosures
•Lender liability litigation
•Construction litigation
•Real estate brokerage disputes and licensure
•Landlord/tenant litigation
•Business torts
•Trademark infringement
•Insurance coverage litigation
•Deceptive and unfair trade practices
•Employment
•Employer/Employee noncompetition litigation
•Trade secrets
•eDiscovery/eRetention litigation

Recognition & Leadership

Awards & Accolades

•Team Member, U.S. News - Best Lawyers , Best Law Firms Edition, Law Firm of the Year, Real Estate - Litigation, 2017
•Member, Winning Team, M&A Deal of the Year (Over $1 Billion to $5 Billion) for Platform Specialty Products Corporation (f/k/a Platform Acquisition Holdings Limited) acquisition of MacDermid, Incorporated and related entities, The M&A Advisor’s 6th Annual International M&A Awards, 2014