Stephen G. Grygiel -
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Published on: 9/26/2008
Last Visited: 9/26/2008
Stephen G. Grygiel
Direct Dial: (302) 622-7141E-Mail: sgrygiel@gelaw.com
Stephen Grygiel, a Partner with Grant & Eisenhofer, focuses his practice on complex securities, corporate governance and third party payor pharmaceutical cost-recovery cases.Mr. Grygiel has litigated and tried a variety of shareholder dissolution and shareholders' rights actions, adversary proceedings in bankruptcy court, and other corporate and commercial matters.He has litigated issues concerning the validity of stock issued in private companies, minority shareholders' rights under statutes, by-laws and contracts, valuations and requisite consideration for founders' stock, minority discounts and control premiums for valuation purposes, the interplay of security interests and stock ownership rights, secured party seizures of stock, and a bankruptcy estate's ownership of funds fraudulently obtained from banks through a sophisticated check-kiting scheme.Mr. Grygiel has also litigated private cost recovery actions under CERCLA, representing plaintiffs in the Laurel Park Coalition v. Goodyear (Connecticut) and Hanlin v. IMC (Maine) cases.Having written, and contributed to articles addressing private cost recovery actions and the intersection of CERCLA and common law rights of action, he has also lectured on those topics to industry professionals.
Mr. Grygiel graduated magna cum laude in 1979 from Hamilton College, where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa and won other honors and academic awards.He graduated from Harvard Law School in 1986.Following law school, Mr. Grygiel clerked for the Chief Justice of Maine's Supreme Judicial Court.