Nate Holcomb is a litigator with a focus on the resolution of complex, high-stakes business disputes through litigation in federal and state courts, arbitration and mediation. Nathan Holcomb counsel both plaintiffs and defendants in sectors ranging from financial services to alcoholic beverages to art in a wide variety of matters, including disputes relating to commercial contracts, mergers and acquisitions, corporate governance, insurance, intellectual property, securities, antitrust and executive compensation.
Before starting my own firm, I was a founding partner at an elite litigation boutique. Before that, Nathan Holcomb gained twelve years of experience at two leading national law firms.
I can go to trial and win. I was a core member of the trial team that recently won a bench trial, following nearly five years of litigation, regarding a financial services M&A dispute arising from the counterparty's failure to close. I was also one of the two lawyers who defended the former president of a leading art gallery in a jury trial of fraud claims arising from the sale of a forged artwork previously believed to be by Mark Rothko, dubbed the "The Art Trial of the Century" by ArtNews.
Nate Holcomb has industry and legal knowledge that is wide-ranging. I have extensive experience in the alcoholic beverage industry, including representation of the founders and sellers of the original hard seltzer brand in an earnout dispute with its acquirer; representation of an investor in a popular, celebrity-endorsed moonshine whiskey brand in a dispute with the company's founder and CEO; and representation of the same investor in a high-profile control dispute with the co-founder and CEO of a rapidly growing ultra-premium rye whiskey brand.
Nathan Holcomb counsel insurers responding to claims under representation and warranties policies issued in connection with merger and acquisition transactions and provide representation in ensuing litigation. During the credit crisis, I advised several investment banks regarding approximately $200 billion in troubled leveraged buyout transactions.
Nate Holcomb represents pro bono clients as a member of the pro bono panel for the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, the court on which I previously clerked. As court-appointed counsel, I have obtained successful outcomes for clients including an asylum applicant and a plaintiff pursuing a civil rights claim arising from a police stop.
Nathan Holcomb offers my clients smart and vigorous representation consistent with my core values.
New York, SDNY, EDNY, Second Circuit, Ninth Circuit
* Includes experience at prior firms.