Experience Highlights

• National accounting firm in SEC and PCAOB investigations involving auditor independence, including the performance of nonaudit services for audit clients and accounting firm entity theories of liability.

• JPMorgan Chase in winning two summary judgment motions and a post-trial Rule 50/59 motion in a Sarbanes-Oxley whistleblower action, representing the client from OSHA investigation through jury trial and two related Second Circuit appeals.

• Software company in an SEC inquiry stemming from a cyberattack; secured no enforcement action after multiple attorney proffers to the SEC.

• Special Committee of the Board of Directors of Western Union as independent counsel charged with reviewing and investigating shareholder demand letters alleging breaches of directors’ and officers’ duty to oversee anti-money laundering and fraud compliance related to the cross-border transfer of fund.

• Coherus BioSciences in the strategic acquisition of Surface Oncology and in connection with threatened shareholder litigation concerning merger disclosures.

• AIG affiliate in securing unanimous reversal and directed judgment in the Eigth Circuit, erasing a $25 million coverage award in an insurance dispute arising from an oil and gas well explosion in North Dakota.

• Biotherapeutics public issuer in defending against multiple ongoing securities class actions and tag-along derivative suits regarding disclosures about ability to generate revenue and drive demand for cell therapies.

• FirstEnergy in defending against ongoing securities class action arising out of passage of Ohio House Bill, where we represent former EVP and CLO.

• National accounting firm in dismissing regulatory investigations by international authorities against all 25-plus individual subjects without charges.

• Emergent BioSolutions in securing favorable settlement within coverage limits of securities class actions and derivative suits, and successful resolution of investigations by the DOJ, SEC, NYAG, and other regulators, where we represented former head of CDMO business unit.