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Timestamp: 2019-04-18 16:54:28+00:00

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Marino, Tortorella & Boyle, P.C., a five-lawyer litigation boutique considered by many to be the preeminent such firm in the New York metropolitan area, was founded by Kevin H. Marino in 1996. All of our lawyers are former federal law clerks with years of experience in prestigious national law firms.
The firm is best known for the extraordinary results it has achieved, for both corporations and individuals, in a broad range of complex commercial litigation and regulatory matters as well as grand jury investigations and criminal prosecutions. The firm also advises corporations, law firms and senior executives on strategic business decisions. Each member of our team is intimately involved in each of the firm’s cases.
The district court granted our Rule 12(b)(6) motion to dismiss a putative class action brought against Sharp Electronics Corporation, which alleged false marketing and advertising by Sharp of its LED televisions. Popejoy v. Sharp Elec. Corp., 2:14-cv-06426-WJM (D.N.J. Sept. 18, 2015).
The district court granted our Rule 12(b)(6) motion to dismiss a putative class action brought against Hertz Global Holdings, Inc. and certain of its current and former officers and directors, which alleged violations of the Securities Exchange Act in connection with Hertz’s public filings in 2Q 2013. In re Hertz Global Holdings, Inc. Sec. Litig., 2:13-cv-07050-MCA (D.N.J. July 22, 2015).
The firm won a reversal in the Second Circuit Court of Appeals of the Economic Espionage Act and National Stolen Property Act convictions of Sergey Aleynikov, a former Goldman Sachs Vice President charged with stealing trade secrets related to Goldman Sachs’s high-frequency trading platform. United States v. Aleynikov, 676 F.3d 71 (2d Cir. 2012). Two months after he was formally acquitted of the federal charges, the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office arrested Mr. Aleynikov for violating New York laws proscribing Unlawful Use of Secret Scientific Materials and Unlawful Duplication of Computer Related Materials based on the same conduct. The jury found Aleynikov not guilty of violating the Unlawful Duplication statute, after which the court entered a trial order of dismissal, acquitting Mr. Aleynikov of the remaining counts. People v. Aleynikov, 15 N.Y.S.3D 587 (N.Y. Sup. Ct. 2015). The firm’s continuing defense of Mr. Aleynikov was featured in the 2014 New York Times bestseller Flash Boys: A Wall Street Revolt, by noted author Michael Lewis.
The firm secured a summary order of advancement under an indemnity agreement in the Delaware Court of Chancery on behalf of the plaintiff in Holley v. Nipro Diagnostics, Inc., C.A. No, 9679 (Del. Ch., Dec. 23, 2014), the former Chairman of a publicly-traded company, for whom the firm previously secured a probationary sentence in a related insider trading case.
The firm won a judgment of acquittal at the close of the Government’s case in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia on behalf of the defendants in United States v. Quinn, 1:14-cr-277 (E.D. Pa. October 23, 2014), in which a U.K. trans-shipper and supplier of pharmaceuticals and his companies were charged with conspiracy, violations of the Food, Drug and Cosmetics Act, and smuggling for their role in the importation of non-FDA approved injectable cosmetics and chemotherapy drugs.
The firm successfully resisted a subpoena issued by a special investigative committee of the New Jersey Legislature investigating the Bridgegate affair on Fourth and Fifth Amendment grounds on behalf of William Stepien, former campaign manager for New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, in The New Jersey Legislative Select Committee on Investigation v. William Stepien, Docket No. l-350-14 (N.J. Ch. April 9, 2014). The firm subsequently secured the voluntary dismissal of claims brought against Mr. Stepien in a putative class action relating to the Bridgegate affair.
The firm won the dismissal, affirmed on appeal to the Second Circuit of aiding-and-abetting fraud and breach of fiduciary duty claims against a hedge fund and its principal in connection with end-of-quarter round-trip loans that allegedly facilitated a fraud by failed financial services firm Refco. Krys v. Sugrue (In re Refco, Inc. Sec. Litig.), 08 Civ. 3086, 2012 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 108305 (S.D.N.Y. July 28, 2012), aff’d sub nom. Krys v. Pigott, 12-3575, 2014 U.S. App. LEXIS 6666 (2d Cir. Apr. 11, 2014).
Having secured a $10.25 million dollar restitution judgment for a major financial institution against its former hedge-fund portfolio manager convicted of insider trading in securities held by the fund, United States v. Skowron, 839 F. Supp. 2d 740 (S.D.N.Y. 2012), the firm obtained a $31 million dollar summary judgment award against the former portfolio manager, recouping the entire salary the financial institution paid him during the period of his faithless service. Morgan Stanley v. Skowron, 12 Civ. 8016 (SAS), 2013 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 178435 (S.D.N.Y. Dec. 19, 2013).
The firm secured the dismissal with prejudice of a complaint brought against a major pharmacy benefits manager by a relator under the False Claims Act and its state law analogues alleging that the PBM received reimbursement from the federal government based on fraudulently inflated drug prices. United States v. Express Scripts, Inc., 05 Civ. 1714 (DMC), 2013 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 175152 (D.N.J. Dec. 9, 2013).
The firm secured dismissal of a multi-million dollar FINRA arbitration brought against a major financial institution by the former COO of the firm’s Asian real estate business, who had been placed on paid administrative leave in connection with an FCPA investigation.
The firm is currently co-counsel for a major investment bank in several residential mortgage-backed securities litigations. The firm also regularly serves as local counsel in significant securities and patent litigations filed in New Jersey federal and state courts.

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