to alter the way it interacted with the quasi-governmental NASD Regulation, now the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA). in 2011, Russo worked with entrepreneur Daniel Staton to recover $8.1M from Merrill Lynch in $1 billion FINRA REIT Arbitration stemming from an alleged illegal seizure and theft of 1,260,000 shares of Duke Realty Corporation common stock from Staton's accounts. Commercial Cases TransPerfect Russo represented Philip Shawe in litigation before the Delaware Chancery Court after that court had ordered the sale of a deadlocked private company in which Shawe held a 49% equity stake. With Russo serving as the lead, Russo PLLC and a team of co-counsel from other law firms navigated a challenge made by Shawe's former business partner Elizabeth Elting and secured approval of the sale of TransPerfect Global, Inc. to Mr. Shawe. Chancellor Andre Bouchard found that “the undercurrent of [Ms. Elting’s] opposition to approval of the sale which she requested, reflects an apparent, deep-seated frustration with the fact that the winner of the auction was Shawe—who Elting has battled for years and who seems to engage in litigation as a way of life." By Order dated May 3, 2018, written by Chief Justice Strine, the Supreme Court of Delaware affirmed the judgment of the Chancery Court. Little Rest Twelve and Fisher Island Investments Russo, represented Inna Gudavadze, the widow of Georgian billionaire and philanthropist Badri Patarkatsishvili. Gudavadze was named in a wrongful death lawsuit, which alleged that she conspired with former Russian "oligarch" Boris Berezovsky to kill Mr. Patarkatsishvili to seize his fortune. Russo successfully defended the action and obtained a dismissal with prejudice. Following Patarkatsishvili's death, several of his business associates made fraudulent attempts to claim his business assets from family. A man named Joseph Kay, the stepson of Patarkatsishvili's aunt and someone who had worked with him, along with the American lawyer, Emanuel Zeltser, attempted to take control of Gudavadze's assets, including a restaurant in Manhattan named Ajna Bar and a large development on Fisher Island in Florida. On March 31, 2010, Russo, with Jean-Yves Haouzi, a Buddha Bar executive and part owner of Little Rest Twelve, and a security team, walked into Ajna Bar (formerly Buddha Bar NYC) and locked out Joseph Kay, his sister Nina and his son David. The NYPD was called to the scene and ordered Nina and her managers off the premises. By presenting corporate documentation, and having filed a lawsuit