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Practice Expertise
- Business & Commercial
- Antitrust & Trade Regulation
- Aviation & Aerospace
- Appellate
Areas of Practice
- Antitrust & Trade Regulation
- Appellate
- Aviation & Aerospace
- Business & Commercial
- Appellate and Complex Motion Practice
- Consumer Financial Services
- Litigation
- Securities Litigation View More
Profile
Andrew J. Kolozsvary is a member in Dykema's Business Litigation Practice Group. Mr. Kolozsvary represents publicly and privately held entities, and individuals, in all forms of business and commercial disputes. Mr. Kolozsvary’s business litigation practice focuses on complex commercial litigation and intra-entity business disputes involving officers, directors, managers, shareholders, members, and partners, with an emphasis on fiduciary duty claims, shareholder oppression claims, derivative suits, and securities litigation. He has significant experience representing clients in trade secret, unfair competition, tortious interference, and non-compete claims; business disputes in the health care industry; negligence and product liability matters in the aviation and automotive fields; franchise, consumer finance, commercial lending, and antitrust matters; and class actions brought under the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (“TCPA”).
Bar Admissions
Michigan, 2005
Education
University of Michigan, J.D., cum laude
- Law Review, Articles Editor
- Phi Beta Kappa
Areas of Practice
- Antitrust & Trade Regulation
- Appellate
- Aviation & Aerospace
- Business & Commercial
- Appellate and Complex Motion Practice
- Consumer Financial Services
- Litigation
- Securities Litigation
Professional Career
Professional Associations
Professional Activities and Experience
Mr. Kolozsvary has obtained significant victories on behalf of clients in federal and state court, and in private arbitration. For example, Mr. Kolozsvary has represented:
-The committee of independent directors of a publicly held pharmaceutical company in consolidated shareholder class actions challenging a going-private transaction, obtaining dismissal based on the appraisal remedy under the Michigan Business Corporations Act.
-The City of Detroit in a suit to recover over $10 million in fees paid to the former federal police monitor, obtaining a significant confidential settlement.
-A privately held technology company in a suit alleging breach of contract, tortious interference, and trade secrets misappropriation related to government contracts, obtaining summary judgment affirmed on appeal.
-A health system and individual hospital administrators in a breach of contract and conspiracy suit brought by physician regarding suspension of staff privileges, obtaining summary judgment affirmed on appeal.
-A publicly held imaging company in arbitration, obtaining a $400,000-plus award on his client’s breach of contract claim.
-A large, national retailer in False Claims Act qui tam suit involving alleged over-pricing of generic prescription drugs, obtaining dismissal on the pleadings.
- Detroit Metropolitan Bar Association
Professional Activities and Experience
Mr. Kolozsvary has obtained significant victories on behalf of clients in federal and state court, and in private arbitration. For example, Mr. Kolozsvary has represented:
-The committee of independent directors of a publicly held pharmaceutical company in consolidated shareholder class actions challenging a going-private transaction, obtaining dismissal based on the appraisal remedy under the Michigan Business Corporations Act.
-The City of Detroit in a suit to recover over $10 million in fees paid to the former federal police monitor, obtaining a significant confidential settlement.
-A privately held technology company in a suit alleging breach of contract, tortious interference, and trade secrets misappropriation related to government contracts, obtaining summary judgment affirmed on appeal.
-A health system and individual hospital administrators in a breach of contract and conspiracy suit brought by physician regarding suspension of staff privileges, obtaining summary judgment affirmed on appeal.
-A publicly held imaging company in arbitration, obtaining a $400,000-plus award on his client’s breach of contract claim.
-A large, national retailer in False Claims Act qui tam suit involving alleged over-pricing of generic prescription drugs, obtaining dismissal on the pleadings.
Articles
"Shareholder Oppression and the Direct/Derivative Distinction" (Co-authored with Mark E. Hauck)
Summer 2007
The Michigan Business Law Journal, Volume XXVII, Issue 2
Summer 2007
The Michigan Business Law Journal, Volume XXVII, Issue 2
Blogs
Insurance Coverage Notes and Developments
Insurance Coverage Notes and Developments provides legal insight on topics of special interest to insurance industry professionals. Covering a wide range of industries, Dykema’s Insurance Coverage Notes and Developments blog provides brief but substantive alerts, including updates and analysis on significant developments and trends in the insurance industry.
NextGen Financial Services Report
NextGen Financial Services Report is published by the Financial Industry Group at Dykema. The Financial Services Industry has gone through a tremendous amount of regulatory and operational IT change in recent years, and with a new presidential administration more changes and developments are on the way. Fast-paced changes are also being driven by rapid technology developments, big data, mobile banking/payments, privacy and data security, and social media technologies affecting banks and credit...
The Firewall
The Firewall keeps you up to date on the hottest legal topics in the ever-changing world of data security and privacy. As information security becomes a critical facet of all businesses and industries and the target of many regulators, it is important to stay apprised of new legal developments. The Firewall provides insightful legal analysis of the emerging issues in data privacy and cybersecurity law to help businesses stay ahead of the curve.
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