Zachary N. Ferguson

Represented, as a member of the litigation team, a bank and its senior officers in a suit seeking more than $500 million in damages arising from a canceled wire transfer from the State of California to an entity that had claimed it could supply California with 100 million N95 respirator masks, obtaining the dismissal of some of the counts early in the case, securing summary judgment on the remaining claims, and successfully defending summary judgment on appeal.

Defended a social media company and its majority shareholder in a suit alleging breach of a bond indenture, obtaining dismissal of the complaint and denial of plaintiffs’ motion to amend.

Represented law professors in the filing of an amicus brief in the U.S. Supreme Court in support of religious objectors to the Affordable Care Act mandate on the non-merits issue of universal injunctive relief.

Represented, as part of the team of special litigation and investigations counsel, an upstream oil and gas company based in Houston in the company’s Chapter 11 case, including conducting a related-party-claims investigation and representing the company in a contested $320 million sale hearing and in multiple adversary proceedings.