Robert Wallan is a trial lawyer with a broad range of experience in securities, business disputes, insurance, and corporate insolvencies. During the last 23 years, Mr. Wallan has tried cases in the state and federal courts and in binding arbitrations on topics such as merger and acquisition disputes, distribution agreements, dealership terminations, lending practices, bond defaults, insolvencies, real estate, indenture trustee obligations, and insurance coverage disputes. He regularly solves disputes through mediation and arbitration, and frequently appears in appellate courts.
Mr. Wallan has substantial experience in class and representative actions, including FACTA, FCRA and California's Unfair Business Practices statutes. He represents major public corporations in arbitrations concerning merger and acquisition disputes. In the Executive Life litigation, Mr. Wallan helped establish the law of guaranteed investment contracts in California. Recently he has successfully obtained insurance coverage for companies targeted in so-called wage hour class actions, and regularly advises on D&O coverage. Mr. Wallan's clients engage in hedge fund investments and banking, electronics manufacturing, the restaurant industry, chemicals and timber, real estate, among other areas.
Mr. Wallan serves on the firm’s finance committee and leads the firm’s Los Angeles litigation group. Speaking engagements have included presentations on substantive lending and insurance issues, as well as ethics, government conflicts of interest issues, and law firm management.