Robert Landy is an experienced litigator who regularly represents institutional and individual clients in connection with complex commercial litigation as well as regulatory and white-collar criminal investigations.
In recent years, much of Landy’s practice involves civil disputes that combine complex elements of commercial and criminal law and often concurrent law enforcement investigations or actions. Landy has represented clients that are subject to OFAC and EU Council economics sanctions who are also parties to U.S. litigation in matters where their status is a material aspect of the case. Landy has also represented parties in civil cases while simultaneously representing their interests as witnesses in related regulatory or criminal investigations.
Lawdragon Honors
| Honor | Year | Practice |
|---|---|---|
| The 2026 Lawdragon 500 Leading Litigators in America | 2026 | Commercial Litigation, Regulatory, White Collar |
Selected engagements:
- Represented CEO of a large oil and gas corporation as the claimant in a civil forfeiture action seeking to recover a $300 million dollar asset that was wrongfully seized by the Department of Justice.
- Served as lead counsel for a sanctioned foreign investment company in several actions for discovery under 28 U.S.C. 1782 in connection with its efforts to challenge its designation by the European Council as well as a $500+ million commercial dispute.
- Served as lead counsel representing an OFAC-sanctioned foreign bank in a civil tort action alleging violation of the anti-terrorism act.
- Served as lead counsel representing two foreign investment firms in action to recover $20 million from brokers of a private investment in a satellite technology company.
- Served as lead counsel represented 107 investors in an EB-5 program seeking to recover more than $55 million in lost capital.
- Served as lead counsel representing a doctor and nine members of an ICU's medical staff in three separate actions against a hospital and its parent organization whose false allegations resulted in the doctor being indicted for 25 counts of murder, for which he was ultimately acquitted.
- Represented a Washington D.C. think tank in connection with allegations of violation of Foreign Agents Registration Act.
- Served as lead counsel in numerous matters involving financing agreements, high-value contract disputes, and business divorces.
- Represented several individuals in connection with a confidential regulatory investigation.
- Represented two financial-industry executives against a former employer seeking to enforce restrictive covenants/non-compete agreements and claiming a theft of trade secrets in an expedited federal litigation.
- Represented multiple investors accused of violating Section 16(b) rules on short-swing profits.
- Served as appellate counsel in a matter involving a multi-million dollar brokerage claim.
- Represented healthcare industry client seeking to enforce restrictive covenants in a corporate raiding case.
- Represented magazine publisher in an action to collect a $62 million judgment.
- Represented a software company and its principal in defense of copyright, breach of contract, and unfair competition claims.
- Represented a group of more than 90 investors in three jointly-managed hedge funds in an action against the funds' administrators, auditor, and prime broker.
- Represented a top-tier university and a member of its faculty in a defense of defamation and copyright claims brought by a former professor.
- Represented a defendant clothing designer in a suit brought by a former consultant in connection with an alleged oral partnership agreement.
- Represented a private investigation company and its principal in defense of privacy violation claims brought by the target of an investigation.
- Represented an investment manager in defense of a petition for pre-action discovery.
- Represented a small business in its efforts to enforce a restrictive covenant against a former independent contractor.