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Rick Bold handles complex, high-stakes trial and appellate business litigation. Rick focuses on business disputes about commercial contracts, fraud, and other business torts.  Having spent the first 13 years of his legal career at a high-powered litigation boutique, Rick draws from deep experience representing a diverse range of clients—from Fortune 50 companies to individuals—as both plaintiffs and defendants in federal and state courts and in arbitration.

Rick’s litigation experience spans various industries and legal issues. He has handled cases involving business-to-business services/supplier relationships, representations and warranties disputes arising out of M&A transactions, mass arbitration defense, partnership disputes, earnout disputes, RICO claims, product liability and warranty disputes, Section 1782, and restrictive covenant matters. Rick seeks to help clients resolve disputes before litigation through effective negotiation and alternative dispute resolution.

Beyond his substantive legal skills and experience, Rick is known for his effective and creative legal writing, his oral advocacy, and for responsive client service.

Before entering private practice, Rick served as a law clerk to Judge J.L. Edmondson on the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit and previously worked as an investment-banking analyst before law school.

Capabilities

Experience

  • Currently representing a nationwide services-staffing company acquired from a European-based seller for claims including breaches of the parties’ Asset Purchase Agreement and fraud. Rick helped lead a week-long bench trial in Delaware Superior Court in November 2024.
  • Resolved a series of dangerous mass arbitrations for a technology-based service provider operating under varying state-law regulations.°
  • After an arbitration trial, achieved a multimillion-dollar award for a private-equity backed transportation company enforcing a representations and warranties insurance policy.°
  • Recovered millions of dollars after an arbitration trial for a member of a real-estate company whose partners had defrauded her and secretly siphoned funds from the business.°
  • Obtained federal court dismissal and transfer of insurance company’s tactical attempt to litigate a coverage dispute in the Northern District of Georgia instead of in the defendant entities’ and individuals’ home state.°
  • Obtained federal court dismissal of activists’ claims of an alleged nationwide RICO scheme against a Georgia retailer in the Northern District of Georgia. Rick then argued the case before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit and expanded the victory to a complete dismissal with prejudice of all claims.°
  • Defended California-based food distributor in the Northern District of Georgia against claim for breach of a supply agreement and attorneys’ fees. After client filed its Motion to Dismiss, the plaintiff voluntarily dismissed the case without any payment from client, and the parties entered into a new contract.°
  • Represented financial technology company in a series of restrictive-covenant lawsuits on both the plaintiff’s and defense sides.°
  • Successfully led 28 U.S.C. § 1782 action to obtain documents revealing secret ownership of Bahamian securities trading company on behalf of Russian citizen’s litigation against ex-husband. The U.S. District Court compelled the documents’ production and sanctioned the opposing party that fought for over three years to withhold them. Following Rick’s oral argument, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit unanimously affirmed those orders, becoming the first federal appellate court to hold that the statute at issue could reach documents controlled by a U.S. corporation but held overseas. The opposing party turned over the secret documents, paid client’s attorneys’ fees, and paid over half a million dollars to settle.°
  • Defeated multimillion-dollar claims for professional malpractice and fraud against national law firm, resulting in no liability and dismissal of all claims before any discovery. Rick defended the trial court’s order before the Georgia Court of Appeals and the Georgia Supreme Court.°
  • Defeated multimillion-dollar claims for fraud, RICO, and breach of fiduciary duty against Atlanta real estate investment managers regarding Costa Rican resort property. The case settled immediately after filing a motion for summary judgment on all of plaintiffs’ claims.°
  • Defended Global Fortune 100 technology company in multimillion-dollar contract dispute. The case was settled without any monetary payment.°
  • Represented Fortune 500 company in responding to a Department of Justice grand jury document subpoena. Simultaneously conducted an internal investigation regarding the subcontract at issue in the subpoena and reported to the company’s management.°
  • Obtained $29 million and $3.5 million class-action settlements against Bank of America and SunTrust, respectively, on behalf of home owners who alleged that they were improperly charged post-payment interest in violation of federal regulations when paying off FHA-insured mortgages.°
  • Defended prominent Atlanta real estate investor in trustee fiduciary-duty case and defeated effort to block a multimillion-dollar commercial real estate transaction. The case was settled defeating plaintiff’s motion for preliminary injunction and obtaining an order compelling critical discovery that the plaintiff had refused to produce.°
  • Represented an institutional investor in fraud and RICO cases against large financial institutions. These high-stakes cases involved the alleged fraudulent sale of more than $6 billion in mortgage-backed securities, millions of pages of documents, and unusually well-funded and determined adversaries. The matter concluded with a confidential settlement.°
  • Represented investor in federal court post-judgment proceedings pursuing collection of a nearly $10 million judgment and in state court Uniform Fraudulent Transfer Act case against the judgment debtors and dozens of their related entities. After obtaining a preliminary injunction against the judgment debtors and their related entities, the matter concluded with a confidential settlement.°

°The above representations were handled by Mr. Bold before he joined Greenberg Traurig, LLP.

  • Investment Banking Analyst, Healthcare Corporate Finance Group, Wachovia Securities, 2002-2004

Recognition & Leadership

  • Listed, Super Lawyers magazine, Georgia Super Lawyers, “Rising Stars,” 2017-2021
  • Federalist Society, Atlanta Lawyers’ Chapter, 2011-Present
    • President, 2023-Present
    • Vice President, 2019-2023
    • Executive Board Member, 2014-Present
  • Board of Pensions, Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), 2014-2022
    • Chair, Board of Directors, 2020-Present
    • Chair, Pension Committee, 2018-2020
    • First Vice Chair, Board of Directors, 2018-2020
  • Teneo Network, 2011-Present
    • Atlanta Regional Chair, 2014-2018
  • Board of Court Reporting of the Judicial Council of Georgia, 2019-2023
    • Board Member
  • First Presbyterian Church of Atlanta, 2011-Present
    • Clerk of Session, 2016-Present
    • Ruling Elder, 2015-Present
    • Chair, Personnel Council, 2017-2018
    • Member, Senior Minister Search Committee, 2013-2014
  • Atlanta Bar Association, 2011-Present
    • Board Member, Atlanta Council of Younger Lawyers, 2012-2013
  • Bleckley Inn of Court, Barrister, 2013-2014
  • Leadership Gwinnett, Class of 2014

Credentials

Education
  • J.D., magna cum laude, University of Pennsylvania Law School, 2010
    • Senior Editor, University of Pennsylvania Law Review
    • Champion, Edwin R. Keedy Cup Moot Court Competition
    • President, Federalist Society
  • M.Div., Princeton Theological Seminary, 2007
  • A.B., magna cum laude, Davidson College, 2002
Clerkships
  • Hon. J.L. Edmondson, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit, 2010-2011
Admissions
  • Georgia
  • Court of Appeals of Georgia
  • U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia
  • U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Georgia
  • U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan
  • U.S. District Court for the Western District of Michigan
  • U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit

Related Capabilities

Litigation