$650,000+ FINRA Arbitration Award

Secured an FINRA arbitration award of more than $650,000 on behalf of a retail brokerage against the firm’s former clearing house, which was alleged to have unlawfully refused to release the client’s funds. Herrick successfully argued that the termination provision in the standard clearing agreement functioned as a penalty rather than as liquidated damages, and therefore could not be enforced. The FINRA panel also required the clearing house to deliver over 10,000 shares of a NASDAQ traded biotechnology company to our client while dismissing the respondent’s counterclaim.