Bio

S. Preston Ricardo is co-chair of the firm’s Litigation Department, chair of the Non-Compete and Trade Secrets practice, and a member of the firm’s Management Committee. For over 25 years, Preston has helped his corporate and individual clients navigate complex business disputes by tackling each engagement with a combination of fierce advocacy and pragmatic counsel that he carefully tailors to best achieve his clients’ goals. Preston has obtained successful outcomes – at trial, through motion practice, and by hard-fought negotiations – in matters that have spanned a wide array of industries, including private equity, financial services, manufacturing, technology, insurance broking, accounting, hospitality, and brand licensing and operations. Preston devotes a significant part of his practice to matters involving post-closing M&A-related litigation; shareholder, partnership, and joint venture disputes; business torts; complex fraud; unfair competition claims; and general commercial disputes. As Chair of the firm’s Non-Compete & Trade Secrets practice, Preston also has extensive experience counseling and representing employers and employees in am array of industries concerning post-employment restrictive covenants and trade secrets, and regularly assists his clients with these matters, including through actions seeking or defending against emergency injunctive relief and expedited discovery. Preston embraces a long-term approach to his client relationships and to seeking practical solutions in a cost-effective manner. Based on this commitment and his breadth of commercial experience, Preston’s clients turn to him time and again for counsel in controversies of all sizes across an extremely diverse set of matters, as shown by his representative engagements.