Chatow Law - Newport Beach, CA

Strategic Business Litigation in Newport Beach, California

Resolving severe commercial conflicts requires an advocate who understands the boardroom as thoroughly as the courtroom. Located at 23 Corporate Plaza Drive, Suite 150 in Newport Beach, adjacent to Corona Del Mar Plaza, Chatow Law delivers elite business litigation representation across Orange County, Los Angeles County, and throughout Southern California. Founder Mark Chatow, a graduate of the USC Gould School of Law, offers a background rarely found among trial attorneys: he spent over twenty years as a business founder, executive, and chief executive officer before opening his litigation practice in 2013. Having driven high-growth enterprises to the Inc. 500 list and negotiated multimillion-dollar commercial ventures, Attorney Chatow brings an invaluable business-first perspective to contentious disputes.

Partnership Disputes and Minority Shareholder Advocacy

Internal corporate friction can paralyze daily business operations and jeopardize years of hard work. Serving as experienced business litigation lawyers, Chatow Law represents founders, partners, and shareholders facing bitter intra-company division. Key areas of partnership representation include:

• Breaking deadlocks in fifty-fifty business partnerships where co-owners cannot agree on governance or financial direction.
• Defending minority shareholders against oppression, freeze-outs, and unlawful dilution of equity.
• Litigating claims involving majority owners who take excessive salaries, unauthorized distributions, or divert company funds for personal expenditures.
• Prosecuting and defending claims of breach of fiduciary duty, corporate waste, and duty of loyalty violations.
• Structuring decisive business divorces, partner buyouts, and judicial dissolutions.

When co-owners betray your trust, choosing to hire a lawyer who understands financial statements and corporate governance ensures your equity and proprietary rights remain safeguarded.

Commercial Breach of Contract and Business Fraud

Commercial contracts are the lifeblood of business operations, but broken agreements and deception can inflict catastrophic losses. Acting as assertive contract lawyers, Attorney Mark Chatow handles commercial disputes involving supplier defaults, purchase order non-performance, distributor breaches, and non-payment of significant invoices. The firm also tackles business fraud, intentional misrepresentation in company acquisitions, tortious interference with contracts, and trade secret theft. By focusing on concrete economic damages, the firm pushes adversaries toward favorable settlements or takes them to trial.

Innovative Contingency Business Litigation

Traditional law firms charge hundreds of dollars per hour regardless of whether their clients succeed, creating substantial financial risk for business owners whose working capital is tied up in a dispute. Chatow Law is one of the rare commercial litigation firms in Southern California that offers contingency business litigation for qualifying high-damage matters. Under this model, the firm aligns its interests directly with the client, earning legal fees only when money is successfully recovered through settlement or judgment.

Recognized Track Record of Trial Success

Attorney Mark Chatow has earned prestigious industry distinctions, including the AV Preeminent Peer Review Rating from Martindale-Hubbell, recognition by Top Verdict for securing one of the Top 20 Court Awards in California, and inclusion in Marquis Who's Who in America. This record of high-stakes results confirms the firm's standing as a formidable courtroom advocate.

Contact Chatow Law for a Consultation Today

Whether you require an urgent legal consultation regarding an imminent partnership dispute or seek to find an attorney to prosecute a multimillion-dollar breach of contract on contingency, Chatow Law provides the decisive advocacy your business demands. Contact the Newport Beach office at 949-478-8393 to discuss your legal options today.