Philip B. Sineneng

Practices

• Business Litigation

Professional Experience

Philip is a senior associate in the firm's Business Litigation practice group. His practice focuses on complex commercial litigation. Philip has experience with matters involving contractual disputes, intellectual property, products liability and labor and employment. He also provides advice and counseling to corporate clients regarding compliance and potential adverse judgments. His experience includes:

• Obtaining jury verdict for international bank in a $10.3 million breach of contract claim concerning the banks role as servicer of four large pools of automobile loans totaling $500 million;
• Successfully defending prestigious health care facility from allegations that it violated the Family & Medical Leave Act;
• Winning summary judgment in federal court on claims of breach of express and implied warranties, product liability, and negligent design, on behalf of agricultural equipment manufacturer;
• Assisting team in defeating class certification in defense of global package and freight carrier from proposed nationwide breach of contract class action lawsuit;
• Ongoing representation of a prominent motor carrier in a patent infringement law suit after successful consolidation of individual actions into a multi-district litigation for pretrial proceedings;
• Assisting team in successful $35 million settlement on behalf of pharmaceutical client in multi-jurisdictional litigation based on claims for misappropriation of trade secrets, breach of contract and fraud;
• Representing public and private entities in Native American land claims and related litigation, resulting in important U.S. Supreme Court and Second Circuit precedents on the availability of equitable defenses in Native American land claim law;
• Representing a generic drug manufacturer in various state Attorney General suits asserting common law fraud claims, consumer protection claims and alleging violations of RICO and the false claims act;
• Defending a syndicate of lending bankers alleging fraudulent conveyance and breach of fiduciary duty in connection with an insurance company's emergence from bankruptcy;
• Representing an agent bank in an adversarial proceeding arising from the bankruptcy of a large cable company;
• Assisting team in defending an international bank in securities litigation and related lawsuits in connection with the Enron bankruptcy;
• Obtaining dismissal of contract, fiduciary duty, negligence and tort claims brought by participants of a U.S. visa program against the program administrator.

Prior to joining Thompson Hine, Philip was an associate in the New York office of White & Case LLP.

He is admitted to practice in the State Courts of Ohio and New York, the United States District Courts for the Southern and Northern Districts of Ohio, the United States District Courts for the Northern, Eastern and Southern Districts of New York, and the United States Court of Appeals for the First and Second Circuits.

Education

• Cornell University Law School, J.D., 2001, Note Editor, Cornell Law Review
• Georgetown University, B.A., 1997, cum laude

• Selected as an Ohio Rising Star by Ohio Super Lawyers in 2012
• 2005 inMotion, Inc. Commitment to Justice Award

• Tagalog (Philippines)