阁下可在此处查阅到我们凭借经验为客户代理特定事项的各个案例研究。翰宇致力为客户提供最佳服务，因此与许多客户都能建立长久而良好的关系，这亦证明了他们对翰宇的表现甚为满意。以下是其中一些原因。
Historic Pro Sports Bankruptcy Case
While the owner of the National Hockey League’s Phoenix Coyotes waded through an historic bankruptcy proceeding in 2009, Squire Sanders helped lead the way toward an unprecedented resolution.
The Coyotes had moved to Arizona from Winnipeg, Manitoba,...
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Representing AmTrust Financial Corporation in Chapter 11 Proceedings
In November 2009, Squire Sanders filed Chapter 11 bankruptcy cases for AmTrust Financial Corporation (now known as AmFin Financial Corporation) and five subsidiaries in Cleveland. AmTrust Financial was the holding company for AmTrust Bank, which was ...
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Clearing the Way for Emergency Responders in Largest Realignment of Radio Spectrum Ever Attempted
Squire Sanders was selected in 2004 to serve as General Counsel to the 800 MHz Transition Administrator (TA), a hand-picked team charged with oversight and administration of the Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) 800 MHz reconfiguration progra...
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Defending a Mark: Trademark Dispute
Can one trademark encompass another mark in its entirety and not be considered infringing? That was the issue facing our intellectual property lawyers in an opposition brought by a large Germany-based company against a client’s pending trademark appl...
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Domain Name Tracking: Internet Infringement
On the Internet, more than half the battle is finding the individual behind the infringement. Internet infringement ranges from creating confusingly similar or misspelled domain names to actual use of a registered trademark on a website or banner ad,...
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Global Investigation: Counterfeit Products
Infringing products can come from anywhere, but stopping one distribution outlet often means the infringer just pops up elsewhere. Squire Sanders’ intellectual property lawyers demonstrated persistence and savvy in tracking an infringer across severa...
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Trademark Cancellation: Jurisdictional Knowledge
Squire Sanders intellectual property lawyers faced an uphill battle when a client sought cancellation of a competitor’s confusingly similar registration. Issues included the prior rejection of an opposition to the application that matured into the re...
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Protecting Wetlands Permits
When The Landon Companies (Agripartners), owner of a large tract of undeveloped land between Naples and Fort Myers, needed expertise in Endangered Species Act (ESA) litigation, they turned to Squire Sanders for help. In 2003, two environmental groups...
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A Winning Argument on FLSA Claims
Digital Dish, a leading television satellite dish service company, and two of its representatives faced claims of overtime and recordkeeping violations under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) involving more than 200 of the company's technicians. Th...
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Enforcing Employee Noncompete Agreements
When the former vice president of a flooring company's property management division abruptly left the company to work for a direct competitor despite having executed a two-year noncompete agreement, the company turned to our labor and employment prac...
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Brazil Media Regulation
The Brazilian government is in the process of implementing new media regulations, as well as a review of the mass communication law. Our client, a prominent player in the Internet sector, is concerned about draft regulations that would apply local co...
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Dominican Republic IP Rights Enforcement
We acted for a major producer of alcoholic beverages whose trademarks were being violated by a local producer. As well as ensuring a Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) compliant-piece of legislation, we obtained the first e...
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Japanese Postal Privatization
The Japanese government decided to privatize its postal service. This was a very controversial measure and resulted in Prime Minister Koizumi having to call a general election on the issue, when the Upper House of the Diet initially rejected the refo...
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Emulsion Fuels
The three major producers of emulsion fuels, diesel fuel with high water content, encountered significant difficulties in marketing their product within the EU. The problem stemmed from the fact that (1) there was no technical standard for such fuels...
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Federal Court’s Refusal to Recognize Tribal Judgment Could Be a First
Our client, a Minnesota-based construction company, filed a claim against a Native American tribe in a tribal court for payment of monies due on construction contracts. The tribal court not only ruled against our client but entered judgment against i...
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Leveling the Playing Field
Squire Sanders’ lawyers’ recent actions led to a consent decree entered, with damages paid to our client, in US litigation under the false advertising provision of the Lanham Act. Our client’s competitor was selling and shipping a product without the...
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Overcoming Obviousness
Squire Sanders lawyers recently won three complex appeals at the Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences of the United States Patent and Trademark Office. Each appeal involved variations of an invention to improve torque generation. The problem was...
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Teamwork Helps Cedar Fair Beat Heavy Competition to Acquire Five Amusement Parks
Situation:Cedar Fair, L.P., learned that CBS intended to sell its five US and Canadian Paramount amusement parks through an auction process. If Cedar Fair were able to acquire these parks, it could approximately double its holdings.Challenge:Cedar Fa...
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Protecting Trademark Rights in China
Our Phoenix lawyers recently prevailed in a trademark opposition in China. We filed an application for registration in China that was allowed and opposed by a business much larger than our client. After we prepared and filed a brief arguing in favor ...
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Fame Allows S. Korean Client to Establish Trademark Rights
Squire Sanders office recently won a trademark opposition in South Korea by applying an exception to the country’s trademark system. South Korea, like many countries, establishes trademark rights on a first-to-file basis rather than on a use basis as...
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US-Directed Prosecution Wins in Australia
Squire Sanders recently won an appeal of the denial of a trademark registration in Australia. The situation: The Australian trademark examiner disagreed with us, as did our Australian associate, who urged us to acquiesce in the rejection and not appe...
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Squire Sanders Prepares Florida Insurance Company Before Storms Hit
Citizens Property Insurance Corporation, a statutorily created insurer of last resort that provides property and casualty insurance to qualified risks in Florida, needed to enhance its ability to pay claims arising from windstorm and other weather-re...
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Client Not Responsible for Sharing EPA Cleanup Costs
For more than five years, Squire Sanders defended our client in a major Superfund private-party cost recovery action. The plaintiffs – a consortium of 22 companies that had been forced by US EPA to clean up an illegal chemical dump site at an alleged...
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Injunctive Relief, Expedited Trial in a RCRA Suit
Squire Sanders obtained complete injunctive relief and an award of attorney’s fees following an expedited bench trial in a RCRA citizen suit action against a privately held chain of more than 500 gas-convenience stores. The court granted our client,...
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Settlement Resolves Client’s Environmental Liability
Squire Sanders negotiated a highly complex settlement providing for one of the biggest brownfield cleanups in New York State history. Since 1999, our client, a US steelmaker, had been defending various environmental counterclaims asserted by the Cit...
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Billions in Tax Revenue Stays in State, Thanks to Squire Sanders
Because of provisions in a limited number of its bonds, the state of Connecticut faced having to exempt interest on federal bonds from Connecticut’s corporate franchise tax, resulting in the loss of billions of dollars of state tax revenue. We solved...
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Central European Expertise Proves Powerful with Government Client
When the Czech Republic needed to contest a Japanese investment bank's multibillion dollar claim that was to be decided by an international arbitration panel in London, the country turned to Squire Sanders for counsel. In the complex case, the Japane...
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Chemical Client Cleared of Toxic Waste Claim
In an environmental/property rights case for DuPont, similar to one in which plaintiffs had already obtained royalty payments of approximately US$500,000 a year for decades from another entity, our client was being sued by the same plaintiffs for US$...
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Defense of Basketball Star Keeps Him in the Game
When a high school basketball phenom was stripped of athletic eligibility in the middle of his senior year for accepting a gift from a sporting goods store, our firm stepped in to play sterling defense. After hearing our arguments seeking preliminary...
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Gold Discovered, Litigation Ensues, Client Prevails
After discovering on its own land one of the largest gold reserves in US history, our client encountered litigation over the acquisition of mining claims from its neighboring competitors. The litigation involved more than US$1 billion in damages. On ...
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Group Fights for Enhanced Retirement Benefits, All Claims Dismissed
Our client was vulnerable to more than US$25 million in damages when two of its former employees, purporting to represent the interests of a group of its retirees, filed suit in US District Court claiming various violations of the Employee Retirement...
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Hospitality Expertise Helps Top Hotel Save Its Reputation
Squire Sanders’ work in the hospitality industry ranges from solving easement disputes and class actions to handling potentially expensive contests with individual guests. For a world-renowned hotel, we responded to one of the largest construction li...
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Insurance Coverage for Cleanup Denied, Until Squire Sanders Steps In
When our client, a Fortune 500 manufacturer, was denied insurance coverage for environmental cleanup costs, our litigation and environmental lawyers teamed up with the client’s engineers to file lawsuits against three separate insurance carriers. Thr...
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Rare "Reverse" Class Action Aids Nonprofit in Chapter 11 Filing
In what was described at the time as the largest not-for-profit bankruptcy case in the annals of US Chapter 11, our client needed to resolve the claims of nearly 15,000 investors and holders of US$700 million in debt securities to get its Chapter 11 ...
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School Voucher Case Allows Financial Aid for Disadvantaged Students
Private petitioners in Ohio selected Squire Sanders to represent them in a matter that led to a landmark constitutional decision involving aid to private schools – the celebrated school voucher case. Our firm collaborated with the US Solicitor Genera...
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Squire Sanders Clears Multinational Client
Our US-based multinational client and several of its foreign subsidiaries faced the prospect of an international arbitration seeking more than US$100 million in damages. Although the group of Brazilian companies mounting the joint venture dispute was...
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Successful Defense in Employee Retirement Class Action Complaint
A multinational transportation conglomerate faced a 23-count class action complaint involving 5,000 former employees who sought more than US$200 million in damages for claimed violations of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act. The complaint c...
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Tops in Telecom: Defending Czech Republic in Dispute
Squire Sanders recently defended the Czech Republic in an important arbitration involving licensing rights to a mobile telephone network. The arbitration was initiated by the claimant, a global investor in the telecommunications sector, who alleged t...
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Client not Accountable for Aiding Bankrupt Vegas Hotel/Casino
In an attempt to reverse the decline of its business, a failing Las Vegas hotel and casino claimed in court that our client had agreed to contribute US$60 million in new equity and guarantees. Facing a mix of restructuring and trial issues, the clien...
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Resolving a Problematic Investment and Avoiding Litigation
When Madrid-based pharmaceutical business Industrial Farmaceutica Cantabria sought legal assistance with a problematic investment in a Florida-based pharmaceutical company, a recommendation led the company’s corporate officers to Squire Sanders. A me...
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