A multi-million dollar dispute in which Mishcon de Reya has accused King & Wood Mallesons of “poaching” two of its New York-based partners has shifted from a New York court battle to arbitration.
In court filings lodged at New York’s Supreme Court, Mishcon’s lawyers have accused KWM of recruiting two Mishcon partners in New York “in an attempt to poach” a lucrative piece of litigation from the firm.
The action against both KWM and patent company ‘ChanBond’ relates to work undertaken by Mishcon’s now-defunct New York office, which closed in 2020.
According to the documents, the U.K.-based firm undertook work for ChanBond between 2015 and 2019, and invested more than $7.6 million in lawyer time, “pursuing a campaign against thirteen defendants through multiple stages of litigation”.
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