Bar Fellowship
of the Texas Bar Foundation. He has been consistently recognized by Texas Law and Politics and Texas Monthly magazines on their "Texas Super Lawyers" listing and by H Texas Magazine as a "Top Lawyer in Houston."
Prior to joining the Firm, Mr. Alavi was the general counsel of a privately-held company with over 5,000 employees. While there, he managed the mergers and acquisition department and handled several acquisitions of public and private companies.
Some of Mr. Alavi's representative cases include:
Brown Investment Management, L.P., et al. v. Ernst & Young LLP - Represent investors in the Parkcentral hedge funds in an audit malpractice and securities fraud case against the hedge fund's auditors. Case is currently pending in the District Court of Harris Count, Texas.
2470 Cadillac Resources, Inc., et al. v. DHL Express (USA), Inc. - Represent franchisees in a breach of contact case seeking over $30 million in damages. Case is currently pending in the Supreme Court of the State of New York.
Houston v. Saracen Energy Advisors, L.P., et al - Represented a natural gas energy trader in claims for $30 million in bonus and deferred compensation. The case settled on a confidential basis.
Mr. Alavi was a member of the AZA legal team that Versata/Trilogy hired a few months before the retrial of a significant patent case. AZA was tasked with developing the lost profits claim for Versata/Trilogy. With AZA's help, Versata/Trilolgy secured the second largest patent verdict reported to Verdict Search nationwide in 2011 as of May 31. Read about the patent verdict here.
Culliver v. George Bishop, et al. - Represented the plaintiff, a shareholder of an independent oil and gas company, in a shareholder oppression case seeking over $150 million. The case settled on a confidential basis prior to trial.
Brown Investment Management, L.P. v. Parkcentral Global, L.P. - Represented an investor in the Parkcentral hedge fund which, with a related hedge fund, lost over $2.5 billion. In an important case involving hedge funds, Mr. Alavi secured a verdict granting his client access to the fund's investor list. The case was appealed to the Delaware Supreme Court and affirmed.
Mr. Alavi represented the former employee of an independent oil and gas exploration company in an arbitration seeking the recover plaintiff's $60 million ownership interest in various oil and gas properties. The case was resolved on a confidential basis.
1993 GF Partnership, et al v. Warrior Energy Services, Inc., et al - represented plaintiffs in a securities fraud claim against Warrior Energy and its investment bankers arising out of a secondary public offering in 2006.
St. James Capital Partners, L.P., et al v. SJMB, LLC, et al - represented an investment partnership and limited partners in another investment partnership in breach of fiduciary duty claims against the general partners of the two partnerships for self-dealing transactions and co-investments with the partnerships.
Tennessee Gas Pipeline Co. v. Columbia Gulf Transmission Co. - Represented Columbia Gulf Transmission Co. in a breach of contract lawsuit involving control (and the original construction) of the Blue Water offshore natural gas pipeline system. The case was resolved on a confidential basis.
Marc Werner, et al v. KPMG, LLP - Represented limited partners of an investment partnership in a securities fraud case against KPMG. The case was resolved on a confidential basis.
WesternGeco, LLC v. GX Technology Corporation, et al - Represented six employees of GX Technology in a multi-million dollar theft of trade secrets lawsuit by WesternGeco. Secured a voluntary dismissal of all six defendants on the eve of trial.
Lenore Schmick Trust, et al v. KPMG, LLP - Represented limited partners of an investment partnership in securities fraud case against KPMG. The c
