Cases
Experience: Representative Matters: Crisis: .
H
led 7 Temporary Restraining Order
Preliminary Injunction situations with tens of millions, hundreds of millions,
billions at issue in the last 12 months involving computer hacking, crypto, AI, tortious interference,
false advertising in California
nationwide federal courts, including leading multiple weeks of preliminary injunction trial proceedings in federal court.
Represent high growth
Fortune 500 companies in existential competitive, cybercrime,
security incident preparation
response, including internal
forensic investigations, remediation, law enforcement coordination, insurance claims,
post-incident disputes. Recovered $200m+ in stolen assets.
Technology & commercial disputes
counseling.: Lead counsel in nationwide dispute between large health technology SaaS platform companies with cross-claims for tortious interference, Computer Fraud
Abuse Act,
related claims.
Lead counsel in dispute between large real-estate residential technology companies involving antitrust, false advertising,
defamation claims.
Represent emerging growth startups
venture capital funds in dozens of business disputes with vendors, founders,
portfolio companies involving dollars, crypto,
stock.
Outside general counsel to multiple startups in AI, enterprise SaaS, consumer, crypto,
other industries.
Represented corporate venture capital investor in Delaware warrant dispute.
Represented seller in litigation with private equity acquirer relating to earnouts
Delaware competition law.
Represent multiple startups
individuals in competitor
investment cases.
AI, Internet, Trade Secrets, Copyright, Trademark, Defamation.: Lead counsel in trademark
defamation dispute regarding community of founders behind multiple top billion dollar+ AI companies.
Lead counsel in multiple offensive
defensive trade secrets
business libel cases.
Represent large
small technology
Artificial Intelligence companies in matters involving deepfakes, AI safety, data collection,
other AI litigation
regulatory topics.
Develop
executed global enforcement takedown campaigns involving software theft, trademark
copyright infringement, bots, scams, fraud,
other forms of platform abuse.
Represent billionaire individuals, major br
s,
large
small companies in defamation cases
controversies in California, New York, Texas,
international jurisdictions. Achieve favorable rulings on anti-SLAPP issues.
Represent world-famous visual, glass,
sculpture artists in trademark
copyright enforcement litigation.
Regularly litigate Computer Fraud
Abuse Act (CFAA) claims.
Crypto.: One of the first lawyers litigating major crypto disputes on behalf of funds, individuals, DeFi projects, L1 chain foundations
labs companies,
major exchanges. Pioneered multiple novel legal strategies on issues of first impression in jurisdictions across the USA
worldwide.
Lead counsel in multiple $100m+ crypto fraud
Computer Fraud
Abuse Act litigations in federal
state courts, including in California
New York.
Lead counsel in $100m+ smart contract exploit
market manipulation civil recovery action in SDNY. Represent victim witnesses in related criminal trial.
Lead counsel in $30m+ arbitration involving contract
inducement issues.
Chased
recovered $250m+ in stolen crypto in USA, Latin America, Europe, Middle East,
Asia Pacific.
Represented crypto project in $140m+ cryptocurrency token dispute. Defeated multiple pleading motions, including anti-SLAPP,
made new law.
Resolve consumer protection
class action claims against crypto projects
products.
Represent crypto organizations
exchanges in Securities Exchange Commission (SEC), Commodities Futures Trading Commission (CFTC),
Department of Justice (DOJ) inquiries
investigations.
Class actions.: Defended tech, media,
financial services companies in dozens of privacy
consumer protection class action
mass-tort claims.
Lead counsel in nationwide class action alleging violations of automatic renewal laws.
Defended facial recognition AI company in Biometric Information Privacy Act class action. Achieved voluntary dismissal after filing motion to dismiss
serving Rule 11 motion as well as full indemnification.
Represent multiple companies against privacy class action
arbitration claims involving wiretapping.
Represented cloud service provider in first California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) class action ever filed,
entertainment
technology companies in over a dozen subsequent CCPA cases.
Defended dozens of wrongful death mass-tort actions against social media
online platforms arising from alleged sex crimes, gun violence,
addiction.
Litigate class actions alleging violations of the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA), federal
state wiretapping statutes such as California's Invasion of Privacy Act (CIPA)
the Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA), California's Unfair Competition Law (UCL), Americans with Disability Act's (ADA) website accessibility requirements,
other statutes.
Pro bono.: Represent animal rescue organization in defamation
security incident response.
Represent nonprofit against copyright troll.
Represent security researchers in anti-circumvention
hacking issues. Represented tenants in pro bono unlawful detainer litigation, achieving voluntary dismissal. Represent nonprofit organizations in nationwide survey of gun violence laws. Represented formerly incarcerated firefighter in record-clearance petition.
The above representations were h
led by Mr. Burshteyn prior to his joining Greenberg Traurig, LLP. Previous Experience: CEO & Founder, CryptoMove, 2015-2019
