Attorney Alan James Romero's Legal Cases

Litigation

Anchor Bay Entertainment, LLC v. John Yuka & Giulia Family Trust, et al.

Sep 17, 2014

OUTCOME: Judgment –Cancellation of Fraudulent Transfer Documents and Trust Deeds for $10MM Property

After the entry of a judgment for fraud as against a tortfeasors, the individual was found by the Court to have engaged in the fraudulent transfer of a certain piece of real property valued at time of ... trial in the range of $10MM. After extensive discovery and numerous pre-trial disputes related to expert witness testimony, the firm obtained total vindication at trial, with a finding that the transferor engaged in a fraudulent transfer in order to avoid creditors, and that an additional $3MM trust deed recorded as against the property was a fraudulent artifice. Both the fraudulent Quitclaim Deed and Trust Deed were cancelled by the Court after an exhaustive trial, the firm having dismantled the fraudulent scheme after years of abusive litigation and discovery practices intended to further the fraudulent scheme in question.

Appeals

Lindsay Dunlap v. STARZ Home Entertainment, LLC

Jun 10, 2013

OUTCOME: $1,479,846 jury verdict for intentional misrepresentation affirmed.

Defendant appealed an adverse jury verdict against her and her alter ego at time of trial. 2nd District Court of appeals affirms jury verdict for intentional misrepresentation after more than two year ... s of briefings, supplemental briefings, motions, and oral argument.

Corporate and incorporation

International Startup Company DOE

Jan 01, 2013

OUTCOME: $50,000,000 transaction consummated.

Incorporated, and established a complex corporate structure for, an international startup vehicle and its attendant business entities.

Entertainment

Anchor Bay Entertainment, LLC v. BF1 Films, LLC and Jeffrey Yordy

Aug 06, 2012

OUTCOME: Judgment $2,769,382.93.

Defendant Jeffrey Yordy created a shell corporation, BF1 Films LLC, with the sole purpose to defraud various entities, including at least one church, out of millions of dollars for films that were paid ... for, but never filmed and/or delivered. Yordy, by and through his sham entity, BF1 Films, entered into a contract with the client to produce five films and in return, Yordy and BF1 Films fraudulently obtained advances amounting to nearly $2,000,000.00 for films that were not only never delivered, but most of which were never actually completed. Yordy materially breached his contract by only producing only one of the five films that he solicited monies for and by wrongfully assigning film rights to third parties in violation of his output agreement. Further, Yordy knowingly engaged in egregious fraudulent activity to defraud the client and third parties by forging documents purporting to be from Anchor Bay staff, representing to third parties that he had exclusive rights to the subject films, and providing falsified documents purporting to evidence the completion of films which had, in fact, never commenced shooting. A judgment for intentional misrepresentation was obtained as to both Defendants, jointly and severally.

Business

John L. Campbell v. Liberty Media Corporation, et al.

Jun 15, 2012

OUTCOME: Dismissal by Plaintiff as to client corporation.

Final dismissal obtained on behalf of client-defendant.

Securities and investment fraud

Sahak Ekshian v. JAGR Vertices, Inc. and Jacob Parseghian

Apr 05, 2012

OUTCOME: Judgment for $605,784.93

Action for fraud and breach of written contract related to a series of securities investments in a now-defunct NASDAQ-listed medical technology concern. Judgment in favor of Plaintiff coupled with a s ... uccessful execution upon real property owned by Defendants.

Family

Confidential v. Confidential

Jan 01, 2012

OUTCOME: Settlement (Savings of $1,600,000.00)

Obtained a highly favorable result for a family law client which resulted in a net savings to the client in excess of $1,600,000.00. This result was obtained in light of highly abusive litigation tact ... ics by opposing counsel, however, the result was realized in spite of same.

Family

Confidential v. Confidential

Jan 01, 2011

OUTCOME: Settlement (Savings of $7,000,000.00)

Realized a marital settlement which resulted the client-spouse a savings in excess of $7,000,000.00 in a matter which involved highly complex accounting and Federal law issues. This settlement was the ... culmination of high-intensity litigation against obdurate opposing counsel who was forced to retract numerous false and improper pleadings after this office successfully brought same to the Court’s attention.

Entertainment

STARZ Home Entertainment, LLC v. Lindsay Dunlap and Ember Entertainment

Aug 20, 2010

OUTCOME: Jury Verdict $3,054,694.45

After persevering in the face of over three years of "scorched earth" litigation tactics by the Defendants, the firm obtained a $3,054,694.45 jury verdict on behalf of its client, STARZ Home Entertainm ... ent, LLC. This amount included amounts for breach of contract, fraud, as well as substantial punitive damages against the Defendants, jointly and severally. Further, the firm was able to pierce the corporate veil based on extensive forensic accounting work which was distilled from thousands of separate documents and presented at trial, providing overwhelming evidence that the corporate entity existed only as an alter ego created to facilitate the fraud perpetrated by the individual defendant.

Medical malpractice

Rebecca Bolanos v. Darbun Enterprises, Inc., Children's Hospital Los Angeles, et al.

Jan 28, 2010

OUTCOME: Settlement: $1,500,000.00

The Plaintiff was one year old when she underwent surgery to remove a benign cystic hygroma from her neck. As a result of post-surgical care that was alleged to be below the standard of care, the Plain ... tiff suffered a severe brain injury as the result of an sustained anoxic insult. The Plaintiff was rendered catastrophically and permanently brain damaged as a result, necessitating round-the-clock medical care for the remainder of her life. The ensuing litigation proved as complex as the injury itself, and the matter was fully and finally resolved after nearly four years of litigation.

Alan James Romero's Legal Cases (12)

Anchor Bay Entertainment, LLC v. John Yuka & Giulia Family Trust, et al.

Lindsay Dunlap v. STARZ Home Entertainment, LLC

International Startup Company DOE

Anchor Bay Entertainment, LLC v. BF1 Films, LLC and Jeffrey Yordy

John L. Campbell v. Liberty Media Corporation, et al.

Sahak Ekshian v. JAGR Vertices, Inc. and Jacob Parseghian

Confidential v. Confidential

Confidential v. Confidential

STARZ Home Entertainment, LLC v. Lindsay Dunlap and Ember Entertainment

Rebecca Bolanos v. Darbun Enterprises, Inc., Children's Hospital Los Angeles, et al.