Press and Publications

Following nearly a decade of litigation, the Firm won affirmance of a $100 million judgment for CSI Investment Partners II, Inc. in a lawsuit the Firm brought against Cendant Corporation alleging the breach of an acquisition agreement and securities fraud. Mr. O’Shea commented, "We fought them for almost a decade and we have an absolute victory." Law 360, 7/23/09.

Mr. O'Shea was retained as trial counsel by Visa U.S.A., Inc. in a multi-billion dollar antitrust litigation which was set for trial in May 2003. The Wall Street Journal, 4/25/03 at C1 & C10.

In 2007, Conde Nast ranked Mr. O'Shea as one of the top ten White Collar criminal defense lawyers in New York City. The article focused on his notable success in achieving resolutions before charges were proffered against his clients.

Mr. O'Shea is profiled as the "ferocious and impassioned" lead trial lawyer in a dramatic arson trial involving the death of a New York City Firefighter in this non-fiction account by a New York Times writer. The author described Mr. O'Shea's cross-examination of the critical expert witness as a "carpet bombing" resulting in the witness figuratively "crawl[ing] behind one of his snazzy charts and rais[ing] a white flag." (Kocieniewski, D: The Brass Wall: The Betrayal of Undercover Detective #4126. Henry Holt & Company, 2003) Click here for excerpts from The Brass Wall.

A Fortune profile of one of Mr. O'Shea's financial fraud cases described Mr. O'Shea, "[t]he lawyer behind the effort, ... as a top draw ... one of the toughest, most resourceful [lawyers] ... seen over the years." Fortune, 6/8/98 at pp. 212-232.

The New York Times Magazine featured an article about Mr. O'Shea's client Saudi national Dr. Al Bader al-Hazmi, a San Antonio radiologist, whose story of arrest and detention received national attention after his arrest and subsequent release by the Federal Bureau of Investigation and United States Attorney's Office in the post September 11th investigations. The article detailed how Mr. O'Shea, "a well-connected Manhattan attorney," would not sleep until he got [Dr. al-Hazmi] out of prison. It quoted Dr. al-Hazmi as saying, "Sean was my man — I loved Sean." The New York Times Magazine, 10/21/01 at pp. 54-57.

In 2005, Mr. O'Shea's withering, relentless cross-examination and impeachment of Refco CEO Philip Bennett and other executives and investment bankers resulted in a multi-million dollar judgment for his client in a finder's fee trial. The New York Times, 10/20/05 at C1.

In 2005, Mr. O'Shea was successful in persuading the New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer not to bring charges against a former AIG executive in connection with the investigation of alleged document destruction and other related matters. The New York Times, 8/16/05 at C3.

Mr. O'Shea represented a hedge fund, Carrington Capital Management LLC, in a $120 million lawsuit against American Home Mortgage Servicing, Inc., alleging that it breached contractual duties to bondholders and engaged in self-dealing to reduce its own $1.2 billion borrowing facility, thereby escalating foreclosure and liquidation of mortgages. The Wall Street Journal, 2/11/09 at C1 & C10.

The Wall Street Journal reported the probationary sentence received by an insurance company executive as a result of prompt action and intensive negotiation by Mr. O'Shea. The Wall Street Journal, 3/23/01 at C1 & C15.

The Wall Street Journal reported that Mr. O'Shea's client, a senior executive at a major investment firm, won $3 million in a wrongful termination claim arbitrated before the National Association of Securities Dealers. At the time, the Wall Street Journal reported that the award was one of the largest NASD awards ever won by a senior executive against his former firm. The Wall Street Journal, 1/26/01 at C1 & C15. Since that time, Mr. O'Shea has negotiated confidential settlements exceeding that amount.

Mr. O’Shea is consistently selected as a "New York Super Lawyer" placing him in the ranks of the top lawyers in the New York Metropolitan area.

The New York Law Journal reported at length on the trial of New York litigator Harvey Myerson at which Mr. O'Shea served as lead counsel for the prosecution. The New York Law Journal's account of the trial stated that the government's chief prosecutor, Sean O'Shea, was going to be a "tough match" for a litigator as skilled as Mr. Myerson. The article went on to describe Mr. O'Shea delivering a "polished 50 minute opening [statement] spelling out in simple, but starkly memorable terms the government's case..." and recounted how the opening "skillfully unfolded the story" of how Mr. Myerson turned a Park Avenue law firm into a RICO enterprise. The five week trial ended in a conviction of Myerson on multiple counts of fraud. New York Law Journal, 3/24/92.