Andres Munoz

Andres represents businesses in complex disputes and advises companies on risk management and litigation strategy before disputes arise.

A seasoned litigator with nearly two decades of experience across New York and Florida, Andres represents medium-sized businesses in high-stakes business, employment, and intellectual property matters. He brings a combination of courtroom experience and practical business perspective to every engagement, informed by experience both as outside counsel and as a business owner.

Andres’s practice focuses on three principal areas:

Business and Commercial Disputes
Andres handles a wide range of business litigation matters, including breach of contract claims, partnership and shareholder disputes, fraud claims, breaches of fiduciary duty, and other complex commercial conflicts. He represents clients in state and federal courts as well as arbitration proceedings.

Employment Litigation
Andres represents employers and employees in employment disputes, with a focus on discrimination and retaliation claims, restrictive covenant and non-compete disputes, and other workplace-related litigation.

Intellectual Property Disputes
Andres represents businesses in trademark and copyright disputes, including infringement and enforcement actions involving brands, creative assets, and other intellectual property rights.

Andres also advises clients proactively on legal and operational risk. His work includes reviewing employment policies and restrictive covenant agreements, evaluating intellectual property protections, and assessing commercial agreements to help businesses reduce litigation exposure and strengthen their legal position.

Andres began his career at Fitzpatrick, Cella, Harper & Scinto (now part of Venable LLP) in New York City, where he focused on high-stakes patent and trademark litigation. He later served as an Assistant District Attorney in Queens County, prosecuting a wide-range of violent felony matters through investigation, motion practice, hearings and jury trial. Andres subsequently joined BakerHostetler LLP, where he litigated complex business disputes before later founding his own specialty coffee roasting business.

That experience as a business owner informs Andres’s practical and strategic approach to litigation. He understands the operational and financial realities clients face and works to deliver legal strategies aligned with broader business objectives.
Andres practices in federal and state courts in New York and Florida and regularly represents clients in the media, technology, creator, and financial services industries.

Selected Experience:

• Represented a major cryptocurrency exchange in enforcing its trademark rights against an infringing party using a confusingly similar mark, resulting in cessation of the challenged use.

• Defended a media company against trademark infringement and false designation of origin claims, securing a favorable settlement that allowed the client to continue operating under its existing brand.

• Obtained dismissal of trade secret and breach of confidentiality claims asserted against a pharmaceutical company at the motion to dismiss stage.

• Represented an LLC member in a breach of purchase agreement dispute, ultimately obtaining a recovery reflecting the full settlement value sought by the client.

• Secured dismissal of a breach of contract action by establishing that the underlying agreement and personal guaranty at issue had been forged by a third party.

• Successfully defended the CEO of a media company in arbitration against claims asserted by a former business partner involving alleged breaches of an operating agreement and fiduciary duties.

• Represented a startup technology company facing securities and fraud claims arising from a multi-million-dollar capital raise and obtained a favorable resolution of the matter.

Education

• New York Law School, J.D. (2005)
• New York Law School Law Review, Case Comments Editor (2004-2005)
• Boston University B.S., (2002)

Accolades