Bio

Mr. Ferdinand is a business trial lawyer, handling sophisticated business disputes. He regularly appears in federal and state courts throughout the country. Large companies, family owned businesses, and business executives seek out his experience, which brings an assertive and practical, results-oriented approach, to help resolve their personal and professional issues. Mr. Ferdinand aggressively pursues client interests in court and the board room. Among others, Mr. Ferdinand’s experience includes, appellate litigation; bankruptcy adversary proceedings; bid protests, debarments, and appeals; breach of contract and Uniform Commercial Code claims; broker disputes; commercial landlord-tenant actions, including commercial evictions; condominium association litigation; consumer fraud and deceptive trade practices act claims; corporate governance; directors’ and officers’ claims; ethics and professional liability; health law; injunctions; insurance issues; lien claims, including commercial and residential construction liens; planning board actions; post-judgment collection; restrictive covenants; shareholder and partnership disputes; and shareholder derivative claims. Mr. Ferdinand’s recent accomplishments have included: successfully represented multiple law firm clients in defeating malpractice claims on motions to dismiss; successfully represented a client in $400,000,000 merger agreement and acquisition; successfully represented commercial landlord in breach of lease action resulting in over an $8,000,000 settlement, which included a $1,325,000 lump sum payment and lease guarantee; successfully represented former officers and directors of a number of companies in bankruptcy adversary proceedings, defeating claims of over $22,000,000; successfully represented a Fortune 1000 company in numerous breach of contract and consumer fraud claims; successfully represented a Fortune 500 company in administrative claims brought by the Department of Environmental Protection; successfully represented health care insureds in claims based on excessive and unreasonable charges; successfully represented officers and directors of a cooperative condominium association in the defense of a class action; successfully represented a number of employers in Laidlow claims, in which employees claimed their employers acted intentionally or with substantial certainty to cause injury to avoid the Workers’ Compensation bar. Before FisherBroyles, LLP, Mr. Ferdinand was a senior associate of Fox Rothschild LLP’s litigation department in the practice areas of Attorneys and Law Firms, Construction, Directors and Officers Liability and Corporate Governance Disputes, Environmental, Health Law, Insurance, Litigation, and Zoning and Land Use. Mr. Ferdinand was included in a list of SJ Magazine’s Top Attorneys, August 2011. During law school, Mr. Ferdinand was the Editor-in-Chief of The Rutgers Journal of Law & Religion. A merit scholar at Rutgers School of Law at Camden, Mr. Ferdinand was active in the Rutgers Civil Practice Clinic providing legal assistance to local residents and also represented Rutgers Law on the Trial Advocacy Competition Team. Mr. Ferdinand was also awarded the Philadelphia Trial Lawyers Association James J. Manderino Award for Trial Advocacy.