Citibank is attempting to recoup more than $3.2 million from the defunct intellectual property boutique Novak Druce Connolly Bove + Quigg, according to a lawsuit filed Tuesday in federal district court in Washington, D.C.

The bank demands that former name partners Gregory Novak and Tracy Druce, now with Polsinelli in Houston, repay what remains of a $10 million loan the firm co-founders allegedly first underwrote in 2013.