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Pursuing the Principal 
without Principles 

Howard M. Loeb P.C. is a California law corporation formed in 1994 concentrating in trial and litigation matters as a fraud litigator. We have over 49 years of experience as an attorney handling complex commercial litigation and business matters in the United States and internationally.

Prior to 1994, Mr. Loeb was a litigation partner with Kelley Drye & Warren in its Los Angeles office. Before he moved to LA in 1994, Mr. Loeb spent nine years in Kelley Drye’s New York office devoting his practice to commercial and antitrust litigation for Fortune 100 and other major companies and financial institutions.

Mr. Loeb has an AV ® Preeminent Peer Review Rating from Martindale-Hubbell, the most recognized entity rating lawyers in the United States. An AV ® Rating is the highest rating Martindale-Hubbell awards to attorneys.
We have devoted considerable attention to prosecuting and defending lawsuits and disputes outside of litigation that involve the financial institution-customer relationship or the supplier/manufacturer-dealer distribution relationship. A significant portion of the practice also involves designing and implementing strategies to successfully resolve “the corporate divorce” – conflicts, including litigation among shareholders, partners, members of limited liability companies, and participants in joint venture or other business entities, whether those matters arise from family feuds or alleged activities by one of principals who may have diverted tangible or intangible assets (including electronically stored information) and/or income from the business venture. In short, Howard Loeb represents the entrepreneur principal “pursuing the principal without principles.”

Mr. Loeb received his J.D. from New York University School of Law in 1971, where he received the University Founders Day Certificate, awarded to the top ten percent of the students in the graduating class. He completed his undergraduate education at Syracuse University where he graduated cum laude in 1968. He was admitted to the New York Bar in February, 1972 and to the California Bar in December 1984. He is also admitted to the U.S. District Courts for the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York, as well as the U.S. District Courts for the Northern, Central and Southern Districts of California, and to the United States Courts of Appeals for the Second and Ninth Circuits.

Howard Loeb’s achievements

He acted as special counsel for the debtor-in-possession in a Chapter 11 case. In that matter, through his prosecution of lender liability and related tort claims against the debtor’s former counsel and a number of insiders involving allegations of breaches of fiduciary duty and diversion of assets from the debtor’s estate, a successful settlement of the debtor’s adversary proceeding was achieved, which settlement lead to the confirmation of the debtor’s Chapter 11 Plan allowing creditors to receive a 55% dividend.

As co-counsel for a large international finance company, he planned and implemented pre-trial strategy involving 150 third-party depositions, extensive motion practice and 30 days of depositions of the plaintiffs. Also participated as trial co-counsel in a 115-day jury trial of this matter in federal court in Puerto Rico that resulted in a complete dismissal of all claims in settlement for a nominal sum of money.

In a “corporate divorce” involving a Los Angeles-based international freight forwarder, working together with forensic accountants, Mr. Loeb followed a complex trail involving alleged diversions of sizable amounts of business from the corporation to other entities controlled by the defendant. Mr. Loeb’s successfully sought the appointment of a provisional director for the freight forwarder which shortly thereafter led to a very successful settlement benefitting the Mr. Loeb’s client, a Vancouver-based shareholder in this freight forwarding business.

In a battle for control of a physical rehabilitation center, Mr. Loeb filed a lawsuit in Los Angeles Superior Court in which his client, a minority owner of the business, sued the controlling members of the limited liability company. The pleadings Mr. Loeb filed alleged breaches of fiduciary duties by the majority owners and requested judicial dissolution of the company. After just a few months, the case settled with Mr. Loeb’s client ending up with complete ownership of the business.
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