Business Litigation Lawyers in Los Angeles

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Business Litigation in Los Angeles: Who We Defend

Los Angeles is the largest and most varied business-litigation market in California — the entertainment industry (studios, talent agencies, production companies, post-houses, and the licensing economy that surrounds them); banking and finance in downtown’s FiDi and the Wilshire corridor; healthcare anchored by Cedars-Sinai, UCLA Health, USC Keck Medicine, Kaiser, and the dense medical-office economy; tech and biotech (Silicon Beach plus downtown’s growing presence); the DTLA garment district and fashion industry; logistics and warehousing employers serving the Port of LA; tourism and hospitality across hotels, restaurants, and entertainment venues; aerospace and defense supplier networks; real estate, construction, and the development pipeline that never stops; professional services (law, accounting, consulting); and tens of thousands of small businesses serving every neighborhood. Business disputes in LA span the full range — entertainment-contract claims and idea-theft suits, finance and fiduciary fights, healthcare-vendor and physician-group disputes, tech-licensing and trade-secret claims, garment-industry contract disputes, lease and CAM fights across every commercial corridor. Our Los Angeles business litigation attorneys defend these matters, in LA Superior Court, federal court, and arbitration.

Common Commercial Disputes Faced by Los Angeles Businesses

LA’s entertainment, finance, healthcare, tech, hospitality, retail, manufacturing, and professional-services employers tend to encounter a recurring set of commercial disputes:

• Entertainment-industry contract claims — talent management, agency commission, production-services, idea-submission, and licensing agreements
• Partnership and shareholder disputes at law firms, agencies, medical practices, family offices, and creative ventures
• Breach of contract claims — high-value supplier, vendor, licensing, and service agreements across every industry
• Commercial lease disputes across LA’s many submarkets — rent abatement, holdover, build-out, and CAM-charge fights from DTLA to the Westside to the Valley
• Real estate transaction and development disputes in LA’s high-value commercial and residential markets
• Tech and software disputes — SaaS, licensing, software-development, and trade-secret claims
• Healthcare-vendor and physician-group contract disputes
• Garment Worker Protection Act and garment-industry contract disputes in DTLA’s cut-and-sew economy
• Insurance coverage disputes, including high-limit business interruption, production-insurance, property, and liability claims
• Business torts — fraud, intentional interference with contract, defamation, and unfair competition
• Trade-secret misappropriation, NDA enforcement, and non-solicitation claims at studios, agencies, tech, and creative employers
• Buy-sell, dissolution, and winding-up disputes between business co-owners

For an LA studio supplier, hospital, tech company, garment manufacturer, brokerage, or restaurant group, any one of these can become a seven- or eight-figure exposure quickly — and LA Superior Court is one of the busiest commercial-dispute venues in the country.

Why You Need a Business Litigation Attorney in Los Angeles

Commercial disputes move fast, and the cost of an avoidable misstep — a missed contract deadline, an aggressive counterclaim, an arbitration provision read wrong — can be the entire dispute. Here is what an LA business litigation attorney does:

• Resolves the dispute on the best available terms — most commercial claims should be settled or arbitrated rather than tried, and the work of identifying which is critical to outcome.
• Protects your operating business and your reputation — litigation should not stop the business from running, and high-profile LA employers usually need confidentiality handled alongside the legal work.
• Defends contract claims — entertainment, tech, licensing, vendor, lease, and service-agreement disputes are the most common LA exposure.
• Manages partnership and shareholder disputes — the cleanest path through a co-owner fight is rarely the loudest one.
• Pursues and defends business torts — fraud, interference, and unfair-competition claims need precise evidentiary work.
• Handles insurance coverage and bad-faith claims — we read the policy and force the carrier to do its job, including production-insurance and high-limit policies.
• Builds the record that supports a clean exit — settlement, summary judgment, or trial — whichever delivers the best result.

How Our Business Litigation Attorneys in Los Angeles Can Help

At Novian & Novian, we represent LA businesses in commercial disputes that range from boutique partnership splits to multi-million-dollar entertainment, finance, and contract claims. We know California commercial law and how these cases actually play out in LA Superior Court, federal court, and entertainment-industry arbitration.

We Defend Commercial Contract Claims

Breach-of-contract claims drive most LA business litigation — entertainment and licensing agreements, tech-vendor disputes, supplier and distribution fights, and lease disputes across every LA submarket. We read the contracts, identify the strongest defenses and counter-positions, and push for the most favorable resolution.

We Handle Partnership and Shareholder Disputes

Many LA firms — law, accounting, finance, agencies, medical practices, tech startups, and creative ventures — are owned by two or more partners, and when a dispute starts, the firm itself becomes the casualty. We handle buy-out negotiations, derivative actions, dissolution proceedings, and the work of getting one partner out cleanly so the firm survives.

We Protect You from Business Torts and Unfair Competition

When a competitor poaches employees, takes customer lists, misuses trade secrets, or runs an interference campaign, we move quickly — preliminary injunctions, expedited discovery, and aggressive damages claims when the conduct warrants it.

We Resolve Real Estate and Lease Disputes

Commercial lease and real estate fights are recurring LA issues across every neighborhood, from DTLA office space to Westside retail to Hollywood production facilities. We handle holdover, build-out, CAM, rent-abatement, brokerage-commission, and title disputes from any side.

We Represent You in Insurance Coverage Disputes

When your insurer denies coverage, reserves rights, or low-balls a claim, we read the policy and push back. Business-interruption, property, general-liability, production-insurance, and bad-faith disputes are part of our regular practice.

Farhad Novian

Farhad Novian has advised, counseled and represented Los Angeles businesses and individuals in a broad range of corporate/business transactions. Learn more about Farhad.

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