Seamus Curley negotiates, litigates and counsels clients on federal, state and local government contract matters as well as on commercial disputes.
Government & Commercial Litigation
Seamus has litigated in state and federal courts, including multiple pro hac vice admissions, and before administrative forums, including the US Court of Federal Claims (COFC), the US Government Accountability Office (GAO), the US Civilian Board of Contract Appeals (CBCA) and the US Small Business Administration Office of Hearings and Appeals (SBA OHA) on bid protests, size protests/appeals, and Contract Disputes Act (CDA) claims. Seamus also handles commercial litigation matters, including contract disputes such as business-to-business disputes on commercial tenancies.
Selected recent experience includes:
Counseling
Seamus counsels on unique contract terms and conditions, including domestic preference/country-of-origin restrictions (e.g., Buy American Act (BAA) and Trade Agreements Act (TAA)), procurement fraud and business ethics/compliance programs, and due diligence for mergers and acquisitions involving government contractors. Seamus also negotiates and drafts subcontracts and teaming agreements, and he represents contractors responding to audits or conducting internal investigations.
Government Real Estate
Seamus is a member of Stroock’s Government Real Estate (GRE) team and has significant experience at the intersection of real property and government procurement law. He and the GRE team represent commercial landlords, equity funds and real estate investment trusts, lenders, developers, property managers, and trade contractors working under public contracts with a real estate nexus, including leases of privately-owned real property to federal agency tenants. This includes pre-award and post-award counseling as well as dispute resolution during both phases.
Other Experience
Seamus’s pro bono service has included successfully obtaining a T visa for a human trafficking victim from Thailand, who had been lured to the U.S. to work on a tobacco farm under deplorable conditions, so that he and his family could remain in the country legally. Seamus also has successfully handled social security disability claims and taken on commercial contract disputes on a pro bono basis.
Seamus has published and presented on government procurement issues to sophisticated professionals, and he has taught and lectured business and law graduate students aspiring to enter into or advance in the field, including as a former adjunct professor at The Catholic University of America: Metropolitan School of Professional Studies and as a guest lecturer at George Washington University, Georgetown University Law Center, and The University of Illinois College of Law.
Prior to joining Stroock, Seamus was a partner at an international law firm and a member of its government contracts practice in Washington, D.C. Before that, he was in private practice in New Jersey, with a focus on commercial and real property-related litigation and municipal law. He also served as a judicial law clerk in the Superior Court of New Jersey, Monmouth Vicinage, Criminal Division.
District of Columbia; New York; New Jersey
U.S. District Court, District of New Jersey
U.S. Court of Federal Claims
U.S. Court of Appeals, Federal Circuit
LL.M., with highest honors, The George Washington University Law School, 2008; Government Procurement
J.D., Seton Hall University School of Law, 2003
B.S., Boston University, 2000
Seamus Curley negotiates, litigates and counsels clients on federal, state and local government contract matters as well as on commercial disputes.
Government & Commercial Litigation
Seamus has litigated in state and federal courts, including multiple pro hac vice admissions, and before administrative forums, including the US Court of Federal Claims (COFC), the US Government Accountability Office (GAO), the US Civilian Board of Contract Appeals (CBCA) and the US Small Business Administration Office of Hearings and Appeals (SBA OHA) on bid protests, size protests/appeals, and Contract Disputes Act (CDA) claims. Seamus also handles commercial litigation matters, including contract disputes such as business-to-business disputes on commercial tenancies.
Selected recent experience includes:
Counseling
Seamus counsels on unique contract terms and conditions, including domestic preference/country-of-origin restrictions (e.g., Buy American Act (BAA) and Trade Agreements Act (TAA)), procurement fraud and business ethics/compliance programs, and due diligence for mergers and acquisitions involving government contractors. Seamus also negotiates and drafts subcontracts and teaming agreements, and he represents contractors responding to audits or conducting internal investigations.
Government Real Estate
Seamus is a member of Stroock’s Government Real Estate (GRE) team and has significant experience at the intersection of real property and government procurement law. He and the GRE team represent commercial landlords, equity funds and real estate investment trusts, lenders, developers, property managers, and trade contractors working under public contracts with a real estate nexus, including leases of privately-owned real property to federal agency tenants. This includes pre-award and post-award counseling as well as dispute resolution during both phases.
Other Experience
Seamus’s pro bono service has included successfully obtaining a T visa for a human trafficking victim from Thailand, who had been lured to the U.S. to work on a tobacco farm under deplorable conditions, so that he and his family could remain in the country legally. Seamus also has successfully handled social security disability claims and taken on commercial contract disputes on a pro bono basis.
Seamus has published and presented on government procurement issues to sophisticated professionals, and he has taught and lectured business and law graduate students aspiring to enter into or advance in the field, including as a former adjunct professor at The Catholic University of America: Metropolitan School of Professional Studies and as a guest lecturer at George Washington University, Georgetown University Law Center, and The University of Illinois College of Law.
Prior to joining Stroock, Seamus was a partner at an international law firm and a member of its government contracts practice in Washington, D.C. Before that, he was in private practice in New Jersey, with a focus on commercial and real property-related litigation and municipal law. He also served as a judicial law clerk in the Superior Court of New Jersey, Monmouth Vicinage, Criminal Division.
District of Columbia; New York; New Jersey
U.S. District Court, District of New Jersey
U.S. Court of Federal Claims
U.S. Court of Appeals, Federal Circuit
LL.M., with highest honors, The George Washington University Law School, 2008; Government Procurement
J.D., Seton Hall University School of Law, 2003
B.S., Boston University, 2000
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