David Tayman is counsel in Dickstein Shapiro’s Business Litigation and Financial Restructuring and Bankruptcy practices. Mr. Tayman is an experienced business attorney who focuses on advising clients facing serious legal, operational, and financial challenges. While he is an aggressive litigator and advocate where necessary, Mr. Tayman is equally comfortable as an advisor or negotiator. He uses his multidisciplinary background and skill set to craft and execute effective solutions in line with the client’s underlying business goals.

In addition to Mr. Tayman’s substantial background in complex bankruptcies, business restructuring, and commercial litigation, he has experience in matters involving complex business disputes and crises, allegations of government contract fraud, and government contracts-related disputes and False Claims Act allegations. His work has touched on an array of industries, including financial services, real estate development, aviation, telecommunications, biotech, and energy, among others.

Mr. Tayman has:

• Represented private equity funds and other financial sponsors in varied disputes and litigation arising from portfolio company crises and distress, including partnership and investor disputes, fraud and fraudulent transfer matters, breach of contract actions, and contested buyout proceedings;
• Represented a court-appointed liquidator of a British Virgin Islands international business company (IBC) in proceedings in the BVI and in U.S. bankruptcy court to pursue fraudulent transfer and related claims against 44 named defendants associated with the alleged transfer of more than $90 million in assets located throughout the world;
• Enjoined the sale of, and later recovered through summary judgment proceedings, a mansion and walled compound, valued at more than $6 million and located in center city Madrid, Spain;
• Defended a $100 million government contractor client in a qui tam case alleging more than $40 million in False Claims Act claims. Mr. Tayman settled the case for a small fraction of the asserted claims;
• Obtained insurance coverage for the operator of a helicopter involved in a fatal mishap while simultaneously defeating insurer counterclaims which, if successful, would have exposed the client to more than $10 million in additional liability;
• Defended that same helicopter operator in a series of other matters stemming from the fatal mishap, including advising the client throughout an extremely contentious NTSB investigation, defending the client against a series of actions relating to the government contract the client was operating under at the time of the crash, and representing the client in a series of wrongful death and tort actions relating to the accident;
• Represented the commercial finance arm of a Big Three Auto Manufacturer in Virginia state court litigation relating to a series of loans and investments in a failed truck manufacturing venture which resulted in the client recovering more than $8 million;
• Served as debtor’s counsel in the Chapter 11 bankruptcy case of a large road and public construction company with operations throughout the Mid-Atlantic region; and
• Represented government contractors and other parties in disputes with the U.S. government, including responding to government civil and criminal investigations, responding to cure and termination notices, counseling clients in alleged violations of the International Trade in Arms Regulations (ITAR), and obtaining a facility security clearance for a facility under foreign ownership, control, or influence.

Bar Admissions

District of Columbia
Maryland
U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia
U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of Columbia
U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland
U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of Maryland
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit

Education

University of Virginia School of Law, J.D., 1999
University of Virginia, Darden Graduate School of Business Administration, M.B.A., 1999
The George Washington University, B.A., 1993, cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa