Nicholas J. Boyle handles a wide variety of litigation, with an emphasis on complex civil cases. He has represented individual, corporate and governmental clients involved in high-profile litigation in numerous jurisdictions. Boyle’s clients include banks, private equity and hedge funds, inter-dealer brokers, mortgage companies, telecommunications and software companies, energy companies and motion picture studios. His practice encompasses breach of contract and other commercial disputes; securities actions, including several recent cases involving mortgage-backed securities; employment disputes in the financial sector; intellectual property cases, particularly disputes involving software and the Internet; as well as the defense of antitrust and RICO claims.

Boyle’s experience includes:

• Acting as co-lead counsel in a 2011 AAA arbitration between two global inter-dealer brokerages involving the misappropriation of U.S. Treasuries price data.
• Representing the non-settling plaintiff States in the ten-week remedies trial in the landmark Microsoft antitrust case.
• Acting as co-lead counsel for NBA Hall of Fame Coach Larry Brown in his $50 million arbitration against The New York Knicks, which was successfully resolved after the merits hearing.
• Acting for major motion picture studios in the MGM v. Grokster case against the providers of peer-to-peer file-sharing services, including Kazaa.
• Acting as lead counsel for 39 inter-dealer brokers in five consolidated FINRA arbitrations against a global inter-dealer brokerage.
• Representing a global investment bank in a successfully resolved dispute regarding a half-billion dollar sale of mortgage-backed securities.
• Representing a group of real estate investment bankers in a successfully resolved lawsuit seeking carried interest payments from Deutsche Bank.
• Successfully defending Sprint-Nextel in a breach of contract action seeking $200 million in connection with a mobile phone joint venture.
• Representing a global private equity firm facing a multi-million dollar lawsuit relating to a mortgage-backed securities fund.
• Defending the owner of a generic pharmaceutical manufacturer in a successfully resolved criminal case involving FDA felony charges.
• Securing the dismissal of a breach of contract action against UBS involving a $100 million mortgage portfolio.
• Representing an impecunious investor in an NASD arbitration against a Wall Street bank.
• Defending an international energy company in a successfully resolved complex civil litigation involving allegations of fraud and breaches of the securities laws in connection with the sale of a power plant.
• Representing a pioneering Internet telephony company in a patent infringement case against eBay and Skype.

Boyle is an Adjunct Professor of Law at Georgetown University Law Center, and taught Antitrust Law from 2005 through 2008. He has also lectured in Civil Liberties and Constitutional Law at the University of London.

Boyle serves on the Board of Directors of the Council for Court Excellence and takes part in the firm’s pro bono activities, including the Landlord-Tenant Resource Center program at D.C. Superior Court.