Andrew N. Choi

Andrew N. Choi is a commercial litigation attorney in Holland & Knight's New York office and a member of the firm's Maritime Team and Data Strategy, Security & Privacy Team. Mr. Choi represents clients in a wide range of litigation matters across various industries, with a focus on maritime and transportation matters. He has experience with all facets of the discovery and e-discovery process and has secured favorable outcomes for clients in state and federal courts, as well as in arbitration.

Mr. Choi has broad experience in the transportation sector, including representing clients in breach of contract defense, advising companies in the U.N. bid and appeals process, and representing clients in the enforcement of arbitration provisions.

In addition, Mr. Choi has assisted with all aspects of maritime disputes, including vessel casualties and the interplay between maritime indemnity and liability, oil spill incidents and liability, Supplemental Rule B and C attachment and arrest considerations, the impact of terminal service agreements, and calculating maritime damages in the liability and expert phases.

Mr. Choi has defended clients in class action litigations arbitrations. He is a member of Holland & Knight's Artificial Intelligence (AI) Team and has written extensively on issues relating to AI and legal ethics, as well as distributed ledger technology, the metaverse and decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs).

Maritime Matters:

• Vessel Casualty/Limitation Action: Summary judgment dismissal for a party in a $275 million U.S. Limitation of Liability Act proceeding arising out of the MSC Flaminia explosion and the indemnity concerns
• Rule B and Rule C Security Proceedings: Advising Protection and Indemnity (P&I) Clubs and marine companies concerning security cases relating to the attachment of assets under Rule B or arrest of vessels under Rule C
• Commodities and Trader Claims: Defending an international commodities company as to international claims concerning off-spec product and related contractual entanglements, with emphasis on damages position
• Terminals Contract Dispute: Defending Terminal Services Agreement dispute and positions on termination in connection with services thereunder

Transportation Transactions:

• Labor Contract Enforcement: Defending a security and transport company in New York federal court, securing enforcement of an arbitration provision, and dismissal of class action and class arbitration
• U.N. Bidding Guidance: Providing guidance to an aircraft manufacturer on multiple aspects of the bids submission and appeals process for U.N. contracts
• Government Defense: Representing a state transportation agency in a challenge to the agency's use of state environmental funds
• Purchase Agreement: Representing an airline in negotiations relating to delays in the execution of an aircraft purchase agreement
• Aircraft Manufacturer Breach Defense: Defending an aircraft manufacturer in a brokerage agreement breach suit in New Jersey federal court
• Breach Dispute: Representing a travel agency in a breach of contract dispute, securing a favorable settlement

General Commercial Litigation Disputes:

• Trust and Estates: Representing an artist advocacy group in the return of misappropriated copyrights; utilizing effective discovery strategy to break a bottleneck in a decade-long litigation to force a favorable settlement for the client
• Breach of Contract Dispute: Representing a rock band in a breach of contract dispute, leveraging a significant discovery ruling to force a favorable settlement for the client
• Breach of Contract Dispute: Representing a capital management company in a contract dispute regarding the partnership agreement for a low-income housing tax credit project
• Breach of Representations and Warranties: Representing a medical services corporation in a breach of representation and warranties dispute; utilizing effective discovery toward securing favorable judgment

Insurance Matters:

• Breach Dispute: Providing guidance to an energy company on the distribution of environmental liability among multiple layers of insurance coverage, relating to indemnification provision in contract
• Compliance: Providing compliance guidance to a national fraternal association on statutes and regulations relating to the provision of life insurance and tax implications

In addition to his commercial practice, Mr. Choi handles considerable pro bono work to help immigrant children and serves on the New York Advisory Committee for Kids In Need of Defense (KIND).

While attending New York University School of Law, Mr. Choi was a board member of the NYU Mediation Organization, where he trained law students to be volunteer mediators for the New York City Small Claims Court. Mr. Choi also interned at the Brennan Center for Justice, working on voting rights issues in the Democracy Program.

Prior to entering the legal profession, Mr. Choi received his Ph.D. in philosophy from The Ohio State University, where he taught classes in ethics, logic and aesthetics. He was also a concert violinist, trained at The Juilliard School, and a first prize winner of the American String Teachers Association's 50th Biennial National Solo Competition.

In addition to his active practice of law, Mr. Choi continues to be involved with music as a singer-songwriter. In 2021, he was profiled in Rolling Stone as one of its Artists You Need to Know and was subsequently featured on the cover of The Princeton Alumni Weekly, which dubbed Mr. Choi "The Philosopher Musician." His song "Thurgood Marshall" was featured in Time magazine as part of the pop culture history of the late U.S. Supreme Court Justice. AllMusic notes that Mr. Choi's "creative pursuits have resulted in some of the most unique and unconventionally thrilling pop music in the late 2010s."