As a litigator for six years at Davis Polk, I represented the world’s leading corporations and their C-suite executives across industries in headline litigations, investigations, and arbitrations—against corporations and governments; at trial and appellate levels; in state, federal, and international courts. MY practice was focused on civil litigation, but included criminal matters as well, and spanned a wide variety of legal areas, including contracts, torts, white collar crime, securities law, organizational law, constitutional law, international law, antitrust, bankruptcy, and legal procedure. The cases were complex and high-stakes, and involved novel, often never-before-litigated questions. I led associate teams in all aspects: litigation strategy and legal analysis; pleadings; motions (wide variety); oral argument; discovery (papers, negotiation, analytics, productions); witnesses and experts; settlement agreements; government presentations; factual development; and alternative dispute resolution.

Multiple federal securities class actions; with parallel related state derivative cases; represented both underwriters (including leading wall street banks) and issuers; secured no-contribution settlements and full dismissals with prejudice.

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“Big Ag” Antitrust enforcement action by the Federal Trade Commission and a swath of state Attorneys General; with parallel related actions across jurisdictions, including a private class action MDL.

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Criminal suit by the Department Of Justice and the Environmental Protection Agency; represented an ENGINEER AT A leading global automaker; faced 20 years, won a non-custodial sentence.

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International investor-state arbitration as claimant against the nation of Papua New Guinea; challenged the constitutionality of an unprecedented, lump-sum, targeted, retroactive tax with bet-the-company implications; secured a highly favorable settlement after briefing the merits.

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Purely legal dispute regarding the plain-meaning interpretation of a complex fuel-supply Contract under new york law; represented a household-name convenience store chain; won on the merits on all questions.

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Delaware Chancery action for aiding and abetting breach of fiduciary duty; represented a leading law firm partner; won full dismissal with prejudice.

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New York Commercial Division action for an array of contract and business tort claims; with parallel related actions across jurisdictions; represented a leading real estate brokerage.

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MEDIATION FOR A BREACH-OF-CONTRACT CLAIM INVOLVING “BEST EFFORTS” CLAUSES AND THE IMPLIED COVENANT OF GOOD FAITH AND FAIR DEALING UNDER DELAWARE LAW; REPRESENTED A LEADING pharmaceutical company; SECURED A FAVORABLE SETTLEMENT.

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“big tech” federal privacy compliance for a major social media company. 

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investigation By the Securities and Exchange Commission (initial stages); represented a railroad company.