Curtis Alva is an of counsel member who joined the firm in 2003. Mr. Alva practiced Litigation at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom, LLP in Wilmington, Delaware from 1988 through 1998 and at Shutts & Bowen LLP from 1998 through 2003.

Practice Areas

• Representing Fortune 500
  • Complex Business Litigation
  • Class action and derivative litigation
  • Mergers & acquisitions, RICO, breach of fiduciary
    duty, indemnification, mismanagement, fraud,
    breach of contract, tortious interference and civil theft.
    

Education

Yale Law School, J.D., 1988
Yale Journal on Regulation, editor-in-chief
John M. Olin Scholar
Idaho State University, B.A., with honors, political science, 1985
Phi Kappa Phi and Mortar Board

Representative Matters

Counsel to U.S. Sugar Corp. in shareholder class actions
seeking $500 million for the company’s rejection of
unsolicited takeover offer
Counsel to Hard Rock Café International defending the
$965 million sale from Rank Group, plc, to
Seminole Hard Rock Entertainment
Lead counsel for Republic Services in litigation against
Waste Management to enforce contracts implementing
antitrust decrees
Defended Great Western Financial Corporation against
$6.5 billion hostile takeover attempt by
H.F. Ahmanson & Company
Defended appeal of contested $4 billion restructuring of the
property and casualty divisions of CIGNA
Lead trial counsel in a multimillion RICO jury trial among
international telephone companies
Assisted in hostile takeover of American Bankers Insurance
Group by Cendant Corporation

Professional Associations and Memberships

The Florida Bar, 1999
Supreme Court of Florida, 1999
United States District Court
Southern, Middle and Northern Districts of Florida, 1999
The Delaware Bar, 1989
Supreme Court of Delaware, 1989
United States District Court
District of Delaware, 1989

Reported Cases

H.F. Ahmanson & Co. v. Great Western Financial Corp.,
23 Del. J. Corp. L. 633; 1997 WL 305824 (Del. Ch. 1997).
In re Delmarva Securities Litigation, 794 F. Supp. 1293
(D. Del. 1992).
In Re RJR Nabisco Shareholders Litigation, 576 A.2d 654
(Del. Ch. 1990).

Articles and Publications

Delaware and the Market for Corporate Control:
History and Agency,15 Del. J. Corp. L. 810 (1990).

Honors

AV Rated (means his legal ability and ethical standards are
very high to preeminent) as independently determined
by Martindale-Hubbell

Curtis Alva

Of Counsel
Business Litigation Practice Group
Fort Lauderdale, FL

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