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Milbank Tweed, Hadley & McCloy LLP is one of the few law firms that leading corporations and financial institutions throughout the world actively seek out to handle their most important, financially significant and difficult litigation and arbitration matters. Milbank lawyers represent clients across the spectrum of business disputes arising from mergers and acquisitions, proxy battles, international and domestic financings, corporate restructurings, securities offerings, class action defense, and real estate workouts. Our white-collar criminal practice assists corporations in the defense of criminal and regulatory proceedings and discreetly handles highly sensitive internal investigations of potential wrongdoing by corporate insiders.


Milbank litigators handle the full range of litigation and arbitration matters, including complex adversarial proceedings. We regularly represent companies in “bet the company” cases and are frequently called on to manage multi-jurisdictional litigation.

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Band 3

What the Team is Known For

Milbank has a high-level corporate litigation practice that offers deep understanding of complex financial markets and instruments. The firm acts for clients such as private equity funds, global investment banks and individual investors on a range of securities and commercial disputes, including cases involving asset-backed securities and CDOs. Its lawyers have notable strength in acting for groups of underwriters in complex claims. The group draws on excellent firmwide capability in creditor-side restructuring to handle sophisticated and often cross-border litigation in that area. It also offers notable capability handling complex multijurisdictional disputes.

Work Highlights

  • Milbank represented ChemImage in connection with a litigation against Johnson & Johnson and Ethicon, alleging the defendants' alleged breach and termination of a research, marketing and licensing agreement between the parties resulted in a $1.5 billion loss for ChemImage.

Strengths

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Milbank is an excellent go-to law firm for high-stakes litigation.

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Milbank provides great client service and knowledge of the judicial system. The team is very deep and strong.

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Milbank is extremely responsive and very collaborative with inside counsel and our business team. They know everything about our business and company, which makes them better litigators.

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Milbank has excellent strategic skills and exceptional knowledge of the insurance industry. The team is hardworking and work well with experts to get the most out of their knowledge.

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Notable Practitioners

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Scott Edelman
2
Scott Edelman
2
Band 2
Scott Edelman comes highly recommended for his impressive practice, which covers high-stakes commercial disputes and securities class and derivative actions, as well as criminal mandates.

Scott is superb. He is a brilliant, robust writer and an excellent strategist. He is practical, hardworking and persuasive.

Scott is a phenomenal litigator.

Scott is a seasoned litigator who clearly brings a trial mindset to the matters he handles, which is very welcomed by us. He brings a good mix of legal acumen and practical judgment to a case.

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Sean M Murphy
3
Sean M Murphy
3
Band 3
Sean Murphy excels at the representation of banks and investment funds in securities litigation. He has a strong track record in excessive fee cases as well as financial crisis litigation.

Sean is an extremely smart and talented litigator. What sets him apart is his appreciation of the clients' perspective.

He has an incredible grasp of the law and excels in leading teams in trials.

He understood the issues extremely well and was able to bring a lot of calm and confidence.

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Jed M. Schwartz
5
Jed M. Schwartz
5
Band 5
Jed Schwartz has experience assisting issuers, underwriters and auditors in a wide array of shareholder actions.

Jed is very much able to run a complex litigation and keep everything firing on all cylinders.

Jed is measured, thoughtful, clear and concise. He gives very good advice.

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Stacey J Rappaport
5
Stacey J Rappaport
5
Band 5
Stacey Rappaport is regularly retained by corporations and financial institutions on diverse commercial disputes, often concerning complex financial transactions. Her recent experience includes representation of major insurers.

Stacey is as sharp as they come. She is also cooperative, reliable and creative.

Stacey understands our business and can distinguish between what is important and what is not.

Stacey is a strong strategist and technician who is determined and driven.

Stacey's integrity, credibility with the courts and substantive knowledge stand out.

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Atara Miller
6
Atara Miller
6
Band 6

Atara Miller is a go-to litigator for financial institutions, corporates and individuals seeking expert representation in commercial litigation and class actions, as well as bankruptcy and securities-related disputes.

Atara's biggest strength is her encyclopedic knowledge of the business.

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Ranked Lawyers at
Milbank LLP

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Litigation: General Commercial
Scott Edelman
2
Scott Edelman
2
Band 2
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Stacey J Rappaport
5
Stacey J Rappaport
5
Band 5
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Atara Miller
6
Atara Miller
6
Band 6
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Litigation: Securities
Scott Edelman
2
Scott Edelman
2
Band 2
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Sean M Murphy
3
Sean M Murphy
3
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Jed M. Schwartz
5
Jed M. Schwartz
5
Band 5
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Members

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Alan Stone

Atara Miller

Christopher Gaspar

Daniel Perry

David Gelfand

Fredrick Zullow

Jed Schwartz

Joseph Genova

Katherine Goldstein

Robert Hora

Stacey Rappaport

Tawfiq Rangwala

Thomas Arena

Wayne Aaron