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Securities: Litigation

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Securities: Litigation - USA - Nationwide

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What the Team is Known For

Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison boasts a premier securities litigation practice offering undeniable strength to leading public companies across the globe. It has unparalleled expertise in handling bet-the-company securities litigation for clients from the financial services industry. The firm demonstrates huge capacity in the representation of corporate issuers, with notable victories in securities fraud and ERISA class actions, IPO cases and M&A litigation. It achieves notable success at trial, and in settlement negotiations, in these areas as a result of the courtroom experience brought to bear by its expert litigators.

Notable practitioners

New York-based Susanna Buergel is a key contact at the firm.

Work Highlights

  • Paul, Weiss achieved a victory for Amazon and several executives, including executive chairperson Jeff Bezos and CEO Andrew Jassy, twice securing the dismissal of a putative securities class action in the Western District of Washington over Amazon’s relationship with third-party sellers and the pace of growth in Amazon’s fulfillment distribution network.

Strengths

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The depth and breadth of expertise distinguishes the firm. Its practice is best in class, and its service levels are the best there is. Because of the department's depth and breadth of expertise, and its ability to pull in equally astute practitioners from the firm's other departments, issues are addressed quickly by subject-matter experts in all relevant domains.

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The firm is extremely organized and has extremely skilled lawyers and litigators. It has a large team that can support extremely complicated litigation. When there is a high-stakes case, it is a perfect firm to handle that.

Securities: Litigation respondent
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The team is extremely responsive and a pleasure to work with.

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