Ms. Alyea has nearly 15 years experience representing corporations in litigation, administrative and transactional matters arising from commercial, environmental and insurance recovery issues. She has experience conducting negotiations, jury trials, bench trials, alternate dispute resolution procedures, appeals and due diligence, where she has obtained favorable results. She has handled matters before New York state courts and federal courts in Pennsylvania, Delaware and Missouri.
Some of her more significant representations include:*
Represented a major airline conducting clean up at an international airport and litigating to recover costs from other parties;
Assisted a major newspaper publication in obtaining business interruption coverage monies due to the events of September 11, 2001;
Represented a manufacturing company in appeal of a federal court declaratory judgment action denying insurance recovery;
Represented a computer company in a patent infringement jury trial and subsequent appeal in federal court;
Served as a co-arbitrator/allocator for a large group of parties seeking to allocate cleanup costs associated with contaminated sediments at federal superfund site in Tacoma, Washington;
Represented a major pharmaceutical company selling current and former manufacturing assets;
Represented a private equity fund acquiring a chemical transportation company and managing post-closing environmental and insurance recovery matters;
Represented a chemical manufacturing company to successfully modify cleanup requirements at a federal superfund site.
Court Admissions
US District Court, S.D.N.Y., 2009
US Court of Appeals, 3d Cir., 1996
US District Court, E.D. Pa., 1995
US District Court, DNJ, 1994
New York Supreme Court, 1999
Pennsylvania Supreme Court, 1993
New Jersey Supreme Court, 1993
Education
New York University School of Law,
Juris Doctor 1993
Reported Decisions
Viacom Int'l v. U.S. Envtl. Prot. Agency,
No. 95-2243, 1995 WL 695098 (E.D. Pa. Nov. 17 1995)
Viacom Int'l v. U.S. Envtl. Prot. Agency,
No. 95-2243, 1996 WL 46419 (E.D. Pa. Jan. 29, 1996)
Viacom Int'l v. U.S. Envtl. Prot. Agency,
No. 95-2243, 1996 WL 515505 (E.D. Pa. Aug. 29, 1996)