About

Provided by Selendy Gay PLLC

Selendy Gay’s complex commercial litigation practice, which includes significant contractual disputes, is the backbone of the firm. The practice blends business savvy with its attorneys' formidable courtroom skills to represent parties on all sides in litigations and arbitrations across the country. 


The firm's partners have defended bet-the-company matters threatening the existence of its clients’ businesses and pursued massive plaintiff-side judgments to protect its clients’ interests. The practice achieves superior results by first obtaining a strong grounding in its clients’ businesses, then using its legal and technical prowess to operate steps ahead of its opponents, seeing strategic opportunities that others do not. The firm's goal is always to achieve its clients’ ideal resolution, while considering the potential exposure, possible publicity, and the significance of the dispute.


Selendy Gay has achieved favorable verdicts in an array of cases, including contract, fraud, unfair competition, antitrust, RICO, class actions, manufacturing, securities and structured financial instruments, corporate governance, trade secrets, energy, consumer products, pharmaceuticals, and insolvency related disputes, extracting multiple billions of dollars in value for its clients.

Chambers Review

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Litigation: General Commercial - New York

What the Team is Known For

Selendy Gay is an impressive boutique making significant tracks in securities and commercial litigation. It regularly acts for institutional investors and banks on the plaintiff side, securing a series of huge settlements. The firm also has a strong offering in commercial disputes, achieving strong results in M&A litigation as well as in class actions and contract claims.

Work Highlights

  • Selendy Gay continued to represent Albertsons Companies as co-lead counsel in a $6 billion lawsuit against Kroger arising out of Kroger’s failure to exercise required efforts to secure regulatory approval for the $24.6 billion merger between the two companies.

Strengths

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Notable Practitioners

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Faith Elizabeth Gay
2
Faith Elizabeth Gay
2
Band 2
Faith Elizabeth Gay garners significant praise from sources for her work in high-stakes litigation covering commercial claims, white-collar issues and matters of constitutional law.

Faith is able to quickly understand complex matters and formulate creative solutions.

Philippe Z Selendy
2
Philippe Z Selendy
2
Band 2
Philippe Selendy is recognized for his work representing institutional investors and financial institutions as plaintiffs. He also retains an active practice defending companies in M&A-related and shareholder disputes.

Philippe is uniquely talented and highly effective. He is a great strategist who has a subtle approach and a calm demeanor.

Philippe is an accomplished trial lawyer.

Philippe sees the whole picture and is a gifted leader.

Jennifer Selendy
4
Jennifer Selendy
4
Band 4
Jennifer Selendy is highly prized for her coutroom experience, having acted for a number of investment firms and corporates in significant plaintiff and defense-side bankruptcy, securities and wider financial disputes.

Jennifer is sharp, composed and an influential leader. She is incredibly smart and knows how to fight for the client.

Ranked Lawyers at
Selendy Gay PLLC

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New York

Litigation: General Commercial

Faith Elizabeth Gay
2
Faith Elizabeth Gay
2
Band 2
Philippe Z Selendy
2
Philippe Z Selendy
2
Band 2
Jennifer Selendy
4
Jennifer Selendy
4
Band 4