Litigation Services

Why Hire Us?

We are dedicated to finding effective litigation solutions to client challenges. Our legal team is comprised of veteran litigators, who have an average of 15 years of experience, and most of our team members possess more than two decades of experience. Many litigators have limited business experience prior to beginning their practice of law. Our litigation teams combine lawyers with extensive legal experience and lawyers with extensive litigation and strategy experience. This allows our litigation team to plan for optimal client outcomes.

Without a litigation plan and a sound strategy, a litigation team can only be reactive, and it cannot possible lead a litigation. On the other hand, beginning litigation with a strategy and adjusting along the way allows for the most dominant positioning and maximizes client outcomes. In addition to maximizing outcomes, our firm is able to maintain the lowest possible cost to our clients since we don’t allow our team to be subject to the whims of opposing counsel.

Next, using the appropriate amount of force necessary to accomplish an objective is not as common as it may seem. In fact, many litigators either use force at the wrong time or fail to use force at all. Our team is uniquely experienced in using an appropriate amount of force an aggressiveness to accomplish our client’s objectives.

Louis Amatucci, Esq.

Managing Partner/ Sr. Litigation and Securities Counsel

Mr. Amatucci serves as the Managing Partner of Centarus Legal Services, PC, Centarus Business Consultants, Ltd, and CBC Due Diligence Services. He is a corporate, securities, and regulatory defense attorney who has more than a decade of legal experience and more than fifteen years of prior management and executive level business experience at a number of large national and multinational corporations.

His legal practice at Centarus Legal Service focuses on corporate law, securities law, and regulatory defense. In addition, he oversees the operations of Centarus Business Consultants, Ltd and CBC Due Diligence. Centarus Business Consultants is a consulting firm that is devoted to assisting small public and private companies with strategy and consulting, and CBC Due Diligence provides due diligence services for broker dealers and registered investment advisers.

Prior to heading Centarus, Mr. Amatucci was managing partner and general counsel at a respected Midwestern real estate operating company and securities issuer. During that time, he was responsibility for overseeing all of the corporate, securities, and compliance matters relative to the company. Mr. Amatucci and Centarus have, also, represented clients in front of the Securities and Exchange Commission, the Illinois State Securities Department, and the Commodities and Futures Trading Commission, subsequent to clients’ failing to comply with securities laws or receiving misdirection from prior counsel. Mr. Amatucci and Centarus have litigated cases in Illinois state court ranging from breach of contract to investor fraud matters.

His passion is helping businesses of all sizes with their growth and development, and he is a true “business lawyer” since he is among a small percentage of attorneys that possesses high level and diverse business experience. Specifically, he has over a decade of prior business experience in each of the following industries: technology, banking, and real estate.

In the technology industry, he held engineering, senior engineering and executive level management positions at numerous large and respected national and international companies, to include, Unisys, NGK/ NTK, Motorola, and Varta Gmbh. In the banking and financial services industry, he was an executive level manager at a major national bank. In addition, he served as managing partner of a boutique securities broker dealer, where he had responsibility for all operations of the office, including management of registered representatives, profit and loss responsibility, and oversight of day to day activities.

Finally, he has spent over a decade in the real estate industry where he sold investment real estate, was a licensed real estate instructor, and he was a licensed managing real estate broker. His cumulative real estate industry experience includes over a decade of investment sales and commercial real estate deal structuring experience.

Mr. Amatucci holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering, and three advanced degrees, including a Master of Science, a Master of Arts, and a Juris Doctor. He is a graduate of Dartmouth College, New York University-Polytechnic Institute, and University of Illinois Law School where he was an honored recipient of the Ronald Rosenberg academic scholarship, and where he graduated with Dean’s List honors. He has, also, been an active member of the Illinois and New York Bar associations, and he is a former graduate level college professor of corporate and employment law.