Clients turn to our New York office for high-profile and high-impact litigation, investigations, monitorships, corporate transactions, and other business-critical challenges and opportunities. We combine experience, vision, and judgment to guide companies in the media and entertainment, fintech, and cannabis industries, among many others, through their most complex legal and business challenges. Unlike many peer firms, we are able to take on many participants operating in the American and international financial system.
Our New York office is home to 2022-2024 New York City Bar Association President Susan Kohlmann, as well as to many senior government alumni, including a former Special Counsel to President Biden and US Ambassador; the former Special Inspector General of the Troubled Assets Relief Program (TARP); a former Chief Regulatory Officer of the Department of Health and Human Services; former assistant US attorneys in the Eastern District of New York, the Southern District of New York, and elsewhere; a former senior official in the SEC’s Division of Enforcement; and many former federal judicial clerks.
Our lawyers represent clients before federal trial and appeals courts around the United States, in New York and other state courts, and before the US Department of Justice, the Securities Exchange Commission, and other federal and state agencies. Our work includes matters involving national security, foreign governments, and global strategy.
We commemorate the remarkable achievements and lasting impact that Partner Susan Kohlmann, President of the New York City Bar Association from 2022 to 2024, brought to the Bar, the firm, the New York legal community, and the international rule of law and justice across the globe.
Representative Experience
- Won a complete victory for client ViacomCBS in a trademark dispute over the title of the MTV reality show "MTV Floribama Shore.”
- Represented Shift Technologies, Inc. in its $700 million SPAC go-public transaction.
- Serve as court-appointed monitor to the UAW; and served as government-appointed monitors to tier-one financial institutions including Credit Suisse and Deutsche Bank.
- Represent families of September 11 victims who are seeking to enforce multibillion-dollar judgments against perpetrators of the attacks.
- Represented Albertsons Companies, Inc. in its announced merger with Kroger valued at $25 billion and its announced $2.4 billion asset sale to C&S Wholesale Grocers LLC in connection with the proposed merger with Kroger. Both transactions were terminated following an adverse regulatory ruling.
- Defend a leading digital asset trading platform in a novel federal class action seeking over $1 billion in damages, brought under securities and consumer protection laws in one of the first cases to challenge customer accounts as unregistered securities.
- Represented Snyder’s-Lance Inc. in its $6.1 billion sale to Campbell Soup Company.
- Represented the Official Committee of Retirees in the Title III case of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico in which our constituents were 167,000 government retirees of the Commonwealth holding more than $60 billion and resulting in pensions not being cut.
- Represent the family of the lone US citizen on board Malaysia Airlines flight MH17, which was shot down by Russian separatists over Ukraine in 2014.
- Represent a class of New Yorkers experiencing homelessness in winning injunctions to protect their access to safe shelter during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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