Kristin Housh is a partner in the Business Trial Practice Group in the firm's San Diego (Del Mar) office and represents clients in business divorces and securities litigation.
Breaking up is hard to do. When a business break up becomes necessary, it is imperative to have a knowledgeable and experienced business divorce litigator in your corner. Kristin's business divorce practice focuses on protecting entrepreneurs, emerging companies, partners, and shareholders in disputes over money, power, or property. Kristin both brings and defends against equity ownership and investor claims, dissolution, disassociation, and buy-out actions, fiduciary duty claims, business torts, trade secret misappropriation, and high-stakes breach of contract actions. She litigates internal business disputes among partners or shareholders as well as external business disputes, including break ups with vendors, service providers, contractors, and distributors.
Outside of the courtroom, Kristin helps C-suite executives, board members, in-house counsel, business owners and entrepreneurs assess the value of their business disputes within the company's larger business strategy. For many clients, success means avoiding costly litigation through alternative dispute resolution techniques that preserve the key vendor partnerships and employee relationships that clients need to grow.
Kristin also has expertise in a wide range of securities matters, including class actions, shareholder derivative suits, and securities fraud and breach of fiduciary duty matters. She has significant experience defending post-transaction, including post-M&A, shareholder claims brought in Delaware Chancery Court.
Kristin fiercely advocates for her clients at every stage of a dispute from the pre-litigation stage, where she is regularly able to negotiate settlements before a lawsuit is filed, to the filing of a complaint or a response thereto, to discovery, to dispositive motion practice, to trial (and everything in between).
Pro Bono/Community Involvement
Kristin is passionate about pro bono service. Her pro bono representation includes obtaining a reversal of summary judgment in an appeal before the Ninth Circuit on behalf of an incarcerated client denied constitutionally adequate medical care. In addition, Kristin brought a class action lawsuit on behalf of individuals who were denied access to the asylum process in violation of U.S. immigration laws.
Kristin is active in the San Diego community and is dedicated to public service and promoting diversity. She sits on the Board for the American Bar Association's Immigration Justice Project, she has served on the Committee for Equality California's annual fundraising event for seven years and counting, and she regularly presents on cutting edge legal issues as a Barrister of the Louis M. Welsh Inn of Court.
On A Personal Note
Kristin enjoys world travel, learning about the flora and fauna wherever she goes, challenging hikes (rim-to-rim at the Grand Canyon and Cloud's Rest in Yosemite are two of her favorites), shredding the powder (on skis), fine wine, and historical fiction.