Litigation

We are proud to serve as legal counsel to the Market Hospitality Group (MHG), Connecticut’s largest independent restaurant group known for both a truly thrilling culinary vision and exciting and innovative strategies for the food, beverage, and hospitality space. MHG is undergoing a period of explosive growth, and, with the pending addition of seven new restaurants, is on target to operate over twenty locations by the end of 2025.

Our Hospitality Law team, led by Ryan O’Donnell (chair) and Maria Rapp (vice chair), includes attorneys from practices across the firm, including Litigation, Labor and Employment, Real Estate, and Business and Finance, offering our clients all the benefits and collective insights that come with working with a full-service law firm.

During the last two years, our Workouts and Financial Restructuring practice advised clients through the impact of COVID-19 on lender-borrower and landlord-tenant relationships, as well as the pandemic’s overall disruption to all businesses and the courts.

We parachuted in on behalf of a financial institution that was embroiled in four separate suits arising out of a multi-million dollar loan default and resolved all four cases in less than a year with a full recovery for our client.

In December 2021, a New York federal district judge overturned the confirmation of Purdue Pharma’s Chapter 11 plan, finding that legal releases that would shield members of the Sackler family from civil opioid lawsuits are not permitted under the Bankruptcy Code. In their appeal to the District Court, our bankruptcy lawyers represented the states of Connecticut, Delaware, Rhode Island, Vermont and Washington, in conjunction with certain of the Solicitors General and Assistant Attorneys General in the respective appealing states and the law firm of Kleinberg Kaplan Wolff & Cohen PC.

Our strategic representation of SLR Equipment Finance, a nationally recognized commercial equipment finance company, led to the multi-million dollar settlement of its claims against an energy company and its international backers in under 12 months.

In addition to handling overage disputes, the attorneys in Pullman & Comley's Insurance practice defend class actions and other litigation challenging computerized underwriting and claim handling systems.

During the past five years, members of our ADR team have conducted hundreds of mediations and arbitrations in an array of areas spanning commercial, employment and individual matters.

Pullman's Family Law Practice remains at the leading edge of Connecticut matrimonial law, regularly litigating, mediating, arbitrating, and defending and prosecuting appeals involving the most complex financial and child custody related dissolutions of marriage actions in the state.

Pullman attorneys negotiated the casino project development agreement on behalf of the Town of East Windsor, Connecticut, the first approved to be constructed off Indian tribal lands.

Our Litigation attorneys assisted investors in Branford Manor Associates, L.P. in a complex intra-partnership dispute involving corporate governance, business tort, tax, trust, housing regulation, and injunction issues.

A significant number of Connecticut attorneys, in law firms, corporate legal departments and insurance agencies, turn to our Professional Liability team for risk management advice to handle their important matters.

We obtained a significant jury verdict for our client in a case involving a terminated transaction with the government of Turkmenistan over the rights to the orbital slots for a government-launched satellite.

A common complaint of the business community is that the court system moves too slowly. But what happens when the system moves too fast?  Our commercial litigators defended a large winter sports facility against just that risk.