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Milbank LLP

Litigation: Securities

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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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Litigation: Securities - New York

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.
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Work Highlights

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  • Milbank continued to represent Michael Sievert, President and CEO of T-Mobile US in connection with breach of fiduciary duty claims concerning the 2020 merger between T-Mobile and Sprint Corporation and surrounding financial transactions.

Strengths

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  • The Milbank team is extremely responsive, produces very high quality work and instills confidence in a client. The firm is involved in the market and is very tied in to what's going on in the plaintiffs bar. The firm is fantastic.

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  • Milbank distinguishes itself by its exceptional legal expertise and comprehensive knowledge of the law and procedure, enabling it to craft and implement tailored and innovative legal strategies. Its quick grasp of complex fact patterns and thoughtful advice inspire confidence, while the team's proactive approach effectively anticipates challenges.

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  • Milbank is well staffed and has a deep and well-rounded bench of personable lawyers who are efficient and produce quality work on large tasks.

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  • Milbank knows this area of the law extremely well. The firm has excellent judgment around litigation strategy and a deep and extremely capable bench. Its attorneys are very knowledgeable, responsive and commercially aware.

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Notable Practitioners

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  • Scott Edelman
    Scott Edelman

    Scott Edelman

    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 an outstanding attorney who understands both the business and legal environment extremely well. He is an extremely quick study and is able to apply his very strong legal acumen in creative ways to achieve optimal results.

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    • Scott is efficient and gives thoughtful and sound advice.

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    • Scott is a brilliant strategist with razor sharp instincts. He is fearless and incredibly likeable.

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    • Scott brings strong commercial sensibility, creativity and pragmatic solutions and strategies to business disputes. He has as sharp a business mind as any counterparties we have encountered. He also has a remarkably persuasive style with judges, arbitrators and opposing parties, rooted in calmness, facts and seriousness.

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  • Sean M Murphy
    Sean M Murphy

    Sean M Murphy

    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 smart, has great instincts and is a pleasure to work with.

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    • Sean has an incredible ability to process information and quickly arrive at the center of gravity of a case.

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    • Sean has incredible command of the courtroom and the law.

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  • Atara Miller
    Atara Miller

    Atara Miller

    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 digs in and brings a deep level of thinking, strategy and execution. She has excellent instincts.

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    • Atara is thoughtful, manages the team very well and her advice is reliable.

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    • Atara is an invaluable partner.

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  • Jed M. Schwartz
    Jed M. Schwartz

    Jed M. Schwartz

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

    • Jed applies his deep knowledge impressively. He is bold but measured, and he thinks two steps ahead in planning litigation strategy.

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    • Jed is extremely effective on his feet.

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    • Jed is super responsive, smart and has a really good temperament. He is also very persuasive.

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  • Stacey J Rappaport
    Stacey J Rappaport

    Stacey J Rappaport

    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 keeps a great focus on the important issues in a case and really understands the technical side.

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    • Stacey is a very good legal thought partner.

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    • Stacey can really tackle any issue.

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