Financial Services Industry, Commercial Litigation, and Employment Attorneys

Lax, Neville & Intelisano, LLP is an 18-attorney, New York City-headquartered law firm focused on all matters concerning the financial services industry. Barry Lax, Brian Neville, and Ross Intelisano merged two of the nation’s most successful practices to create LNI in 2025. Together, our founding partners have over 90 years of experience, litigated and arbitrated hundreds of claims and won some of the largest and most complex securities and employment arbitration awards of all time.

LNI represents investors in securities arbitration and litigation against financial institutions and financial services industry professionals in employment arbitrations and litigation, employment transitions from one firm to another, and regulatory matters.

The Firm also specializes in a wide array of other practice areas in state and federal courts, such as employment-related disputes (discrimination, harassment, wage and hour violations, whistle-blower and retaliation cases), bankruptcy litigation (fraudulent conveyances, avoidance and clawback cases), and other types of commercial litigation.

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Our Wins

$21 Million: The Largest Investor Arbitration Award Ever Against Goldman Sachs

We won a $21 million FINRA arbitration award against Goldman Sachs on behalf of the creditors’ committee of the Bayou hedge fund run by Sam Israel. It is the largest arbitration award ever rendered against Goldman and represented a 100% recovery.

$43 Million Award for Investors

We won a $43 million NFA arbitration award against Refco which was greater than 100% of the losses incurred, was paid, and at the time was the largest collected arbitration award ever rendered on behalf of public customers against a brokerage firm.

Lax & Neville has Won More Than $35 Million for Former Credit Suisse Advisers Seeking Deferred Compensation in FINRA Arbitrations

Lax & Neville LLP has won all nine FINRA arbitrations, resulting in awards of more than $35 million, that it has brought on behalf of 30 former Credit Suisse advisors for their portion of their deferred compensation that Credit Suisse refused to pay when it closed its US private bank in 2015, violating the advisers' employment agreements and the...

Lax & Neville LLP Wins A $16.6 Million Award In A FINRA Arbitration On Behalf Of Two Retail Investors, Through Ontonimo (OMO) Limited, Against BNP Paribas Securities Corp

On June 26, 2015, Lax & Neville LLP, a leading national securities arbitration law firm, won a FINRA arbitration award on behalf of two retail investors (the "Retail Investors"), through Ontonimo (OMO) Limited (“Ontonimo”), against BNP Paribas Securities Corp. (“BNPP”) for the sale and marketing of an unsuitable security to the Retail Investors.

Practice Areas

Securities Arbitration and Investment Fraud Litigation

Financial Service Industry Professionals

Employment Litigation

Broker/Advisor Transitions and Protocol Issues

Bankruptcy Litigation

Commercial Litigation

Client Reviews

This is an official “ thank you” for all your hard work. It really was a pleasure to have you represent me, and I enjoyed seeing you, Rush and Sandra in action. I think Lax and Neville epitomizes the phrase “quality vs quantity”. I think I told you before that I spent a lot of time researching...

Brian C.

Ross and his team did a wonderful job representing me in my employment dispute. They were honest, intelligent and hard working. I recommend them to all of my colleagues in the financial industry.

Steven F.

L&N are highly skilled legal counsel with a mastery of the facts; extremely knowledgeable on the case, opposing counsel strategy and also thoroughly prepped me for my session; grateful that panel came to the fair and just decision.

Stewart B.

I just wanted to say thank you for all of your efforts on my behalf over the past number of years…I really appreciate all the hard work and enjoyed getting to know all of you.

David R.