Akshar U. Patel

Akshar Patel focuses his practice on commercial litigation, including shareholder, partnership, and governance disputes involving closely held businesses, family-owned enterprises, and high-net-worth individuals—often in matters involving control, succession, or the future of the enterprise. He regularly represents business owners, shareholders, members, officers, directors, and general partners in matters involving fiduciary breaches, deadlock, dissolution, valuation disputes, and contested enforcement of shareholder and operating agreements.

His matters often involve applications for injunctive relief, business tort claims, and disputes requiring the appointment of special fiscal agents. Akshar handles restrictive covenant litigation and complex contract enforcement actions. He has extensive experience navigating cases in both the Law and Chancery Divisions. He represents clients through all stages of litigation, including pleadings, discovery, depositions, dispositive motion practice, trial preparation, and has briefed matters before the New Jersey Appellate Division and New Jersey Supreme Court.

In addition to business litigation, Akshar represents clients in high stakes trust and estate disputes, including guardianships, will contests, fiduciary accounting challenges, and actions involving undue influence, incapacity, and disputed trust administration. He has experience litigating these matters in the Probate Part and before the New Jersey Appellate Division.

Before joining Norris McLaughlin, Akshar served as a legal intern with the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of New Jersey, where he assisted in matters involving organized crime, financial fraud, and public corruption. He was Executive Editor of the Seton Hall Legislative Journal and participated in the Center for Social Justice’s Equal Justice Clinic.