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Chambers Review

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Litigation: General Commercial: Highly Regarded - New York

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Band 4

What the Team is Known For

Akin boasts a respected litigation practice with an established reputation for expertise in disputes relating to financial restructuring. It counts among its clients several prominent hedge funds and investment funds, as well as a number of commercial clients in the energy sector. The firm fields a strong bench of experienced trial lawyers and regulatory experts.

Work Highlights

  • Akin represented the Official Committee of Unsecured Creditors of Purdue Pharma in estate claims against members of the Sackler family and their affiliates, as well as Purdue and certain of its current and former officers and executives, in connection with the nationwide opioid crisis.

Strengths

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Notable Practitioners

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Uri Itkin
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Uri Itkin
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Band 1
Uri Itkin regularly acts for major insurers and asset managers on complex cases relating to commercial mortgage-backed securities, as part of a broader practice in financial litigation.

Uri Itkin is one of the top structured finance litigators in the country and a go-to for many hedge fund clients.

Uri always thinks through all angles of matters and goes to bat for his clients. He wants to make sure he gets the best result.

Uri is intelligent and thoughtful with his litigation strategies. He really gets to the heart of issues quickly.

Douglas Rappaport
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Douglas Rappaport
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Douglas Rappaport focuses his practice on investment funds, with expertise in a wide array of securities disputes and commercial litigation including breach of contract, alleged fraud and activist campaigns.

Doug is both knowledgeable and qualified. I also appreciate his responsiveness and commerciality.

Doug is commercial, responsive and knowledgeable.

Doug is simply a superlative lawyer in all areas from written and oral advocacy to correctly assessing client needs.

Ranked Lawyers at
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New York

Litigation: Securities

Douglas Rappaport
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Douglas Rappaport
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Securities: Institutional Plaintiffs: Mainly RMBS Litigation

Uri Itkin
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Uri Itkin
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Band 1

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