Megan Dubatowka

A tenacious commercial and employment litigator, Megan Dubatowka helps executives, entrepreneurs, and companies navigate career-defining disputes and workplace crises. Her strategic, results-driven advocacy protects reputations, careers, and business interests when the stakes are highest.

Individuals and companies turn to Megan at critical moments when business relationships fracture or sensitive workplace issues demand strategic resolution.

• Co-first chair trial counsel representing the former head of equities at Credit Suisse, resulting in an $8.7 million FINRA award and a finding that Credit Suisse and its successor UBS acted in bad faith when cancelling the client’s deferred compensation.
  
• Successful resolution on behalf of a publicly traded media company involving multi-million dollar contractual, intellectual property, trade secret, and business tort claims arising from the termination and transfer of the Sports Illustrated license in multi-party litigation in the Southern District of New York.
  
• Obtained a JAMS arbitration award of over $2.7 million (including liquidated damages and attorneys’ fees) for breach of contract, quantum meruit, and violation of the New York Labor Law arising out of an employer’s improper withholding of a former employee’s earned bonus based on the net profits of a transaction for which the employee was the lead investment banker.
  
• Successful representation of an entrepreneur against real estate brokerage Compass in multi-year litigation resulting in Compass recognizing the client as a founding team member and publicly reporting a $21 million legal charge in connection with the settlement.
  
• Representation of a leading California cannabis testing laboratory, its officers and directors, and shareholders in multi-jurisdiction litigation against its former Chief Executive Officer. Following a successful JAMS arbitration, the former CEO voluntarily dismissed a 13-count derivative complaint filed against the company and over 50 stakeholder defendants.
  

• Commercial disputes
• Labor and employment
• Plaintiff

• Financial services
  
• Investment management
  
• Media
  
• Pharmaceutical and life sciences
  
• Technology and telecommunications

• B.S., Cornell University School of Industrial Labor Relations, 2008
• Juris Doctorate, Brooklyn Law School, 2013

• New York, 2014
• New Jersey, 2014