Wyatt is a Partner in the Litigation Department focusing on complex business and fiduciary, trust, and estate disputes in Connecticut and New York courts. Wyatt has represented VC firms and their principals, family offices, individual and corporate fiduciaries, financial industry professionals, and trust and estate beneficiaries in a wide variety of matters involving trade secrets, noncompetition and nonsolicit agreements; shareholder and membership disputes; corporate books and records claims; contested trust accounting, construction, and removal proceedings; fiduciary duty claims; and inheritance litigation. Wyatt also regularly serves as Connecticut counsel for national and international law firms.
Wyatt’s experience includes key contributions to the Firm’s:
- Successful defense at trial of claims to pierce the corporate veil to enforce a foreign judgment exceeding $300 million
- Successful defense at trial and on appeal of validity of charitable gift exceeding $100 million (one of the largest in Connecticut history)
- Successful defense of claim arising from alleged multimillion-dollar equity grant in VC fund’s portfolio company, withdrawn by plaintiff without payment following plaintiff’s deposition
- Successful petition to obtain jurisdiction over Swiss trustees of offshore trust and to prevent liquidation of trust assets
- Successful petition for a seven-figure annual support allowance (believed to be among the largest in Connecticut history) for estate beneficiaries
- Successful petition for Attorney General approval of eight-figure interested-party transaction between private foundation and its directors
- Successful resolution of dispute involving purported restatement of two substantial trusts negatively affecting minor beneficiaries
Wyatt is a member of the Connecticut Committee of the Federal Bar Council and the Connecticut, Fairfield County, and Greenwich bar associations. He has been recognized as a Connecticut Super Lawyer® Rising Star in the areas of business litigation and trust and estate litigation every year since 2018. See selection information at http://www.superlawyers.com/connecticut/selection_details.html
Publications & Presentations
When Offshore Trust Disputes Wash Up Onshore, ALI/ABA – Representing Estate & Trust Beneficiaries & Fiduciaries (June 2019)
Connecticut’s Celotex Problem: Preventing Unnecessary Trials by Revitalizing Summary Judgment, Connecticut Law Tribune (Feb. 14, 2018)
Opportunity and Danger: Conn. Statutes of Limitations Don’t Apply to Arbitration, Connecticut Law Tribune (Feb. 8, 2018)
Enforcing the Unenforceable Forum Selection Clause, Connecticut Law Tribune (Dec. 1, 2016)
Strategic Removal & the Voluntary-Involuntary Rule, Connecticut Law Tribune (Aug. 15, 2016)
Impermissible Windfalls? Unemployment Insurance, Back Pay, and the Two Classes of Title VII Plaintiffs, 18 Connecticut Insurance Law Journal 307 (2012)
