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Litigation: General Commercial - Texas: Dallas, Fort Worth & Surrounds

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What the Team is Known For

Sidley Austin LLP possesses considerable expertise in the full spectrum of commercial disputes, including experience handling securities, employment and energy-related matters. The team is capable of counseling clients on investigations and arbitrations as well as acting in trials and appeals.

Work Highlights

  • Sidley Austin represented The Big 12 Conference in several groundbreaking antitrust class actions involving student-athlete compensation issues as related to academic achievement awards, name, image and likeness (NIL) monetization and so-called 'pay for play'.

Strengths

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Notable Practitioners

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Angela Zambrano
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Angela Zambrano
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Angela Zambrano is a highly sought-after commercial litigator, whose broad experience spans class actions and arbitrations. She offers further expertise in securities-related disputes.

I wish I could work with Angela on more things. She is very responsive and not afraid to talk about difficult topics for a company. She does a really good job at communicating in a way that doesn't make clients feel pushed in a corner. She plays the long game, not just resolving the matter that's right in front of her.

Angela leads with exceptional skill, judgment and steadiness. She consistently brings the right expertise to the table, drawing on Sidley’s broader resources to ensure we have exactly what we need at each stage. She anticipates our concerns, understands our broader commercial objectives and actively looks for ways Sidley can better support us.

Angela Zambrano is smart, organized, extremely hard-working and has great judgment.

I think the world of Angela. She is a leader in the market and a wonderful lawyer.

Angela is among the best in the country for litigation expertise and team management. She has immense expertise and is everything you want in a litigator.

Yvette Ostolaza
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Yvette Ostolaza
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Yvette Ostolaza is frequently sought out to handle high-level internal investigations and commercial litigation. She is chair of Sidley Austin LLP's management committee.

Yvette Ostolaza is one of the world's premier litigators.

Yvette Ostolaza is clearly a leader in litigation and crisis management. She is extremely proactive in partnering with clients to become trusted business partners and counsel. She leads from the front on 10/10 client service and is an incredible mentor to the other practitioners at Sidley.

Yvette Ostolaza is honestly the best lawyer I've ever met. She understands a client's business and the stress and demand of litigation. She is smart and can anticipate what the other side is thinking. It's incredible.

There is no one else like Yvette Ostolaza. She is a true force of nature who understands her clients' businesses and needs, and she can out-lawyer anyone. She has a large following of clients who call upon her and her team to solve all of their most difficult legal issues. She is a true counselor and brilliant legal mind.

Her responsiveness, quality of work, sound advice and practicality make her stand out.

Yolanda Garcia
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Yolanda Garcia
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Band 3
Yolanda Garcia represents clients in commercial and securities litigation at the state and federal levels. Based in Dallas, she is trusted on national and cross-border disputes.

Yolanda is hard-working, smart and strategic.

I rate Yolanda highly for her sophistication, advocacy and client service. She delivers exceptional work, arguing key motions with clarity, precision and strong strategic judgment. Yolanda combines deep legal expertise with a practical understanding of what matters most to our business. She is thoroughly prepared, highly responsive and consistently effective in advancing our position. Her advocacy and overall performance are truly fantastic and a major asset to the team.

Yolanda is a great orator and her superpower is her ability to synthesize complicated issues and facts and articulate her argument in a succinct and compelling manner.

Yolanda Garcia is exceptional from a litigation perspective and has a good understanding of the courts.

Yolanda is excellent. She is tough, business-minded and won't be intimidated.

Robert Velevis
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Robert Velevis
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Band 5
Robert Velevis is well recognized for his deep commercial litigation experience, with notable experience representing private equity and energy clients.

Robert is cool, calm and collected, even in very stressful situations.

Rob is my first call for large, complex litigation. He is smart and surgical in his approach to identifying a winning strategy.

Rob is incredible to work with. He is brilliant, detail-oriented and a real strategic partner.

Rob grasps the details and handles complex matters with ease.

Ranked Lawyers at
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Texas

Litigation: Securities

Angela Zambrano
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Angela Zambrano
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Band 2
Yvette Ostolaza
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Yvette Ostolaza
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Band 2
Yolanda Garcia
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Yolanda Garcia
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Band 3

Texas: Dallas, Fort Worth & Surrounds

Litigation: General Commercial

Angela Zambrano
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Angela Zambrano
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Band 1
Yvette Ostolaza
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Yvette Ostolaza
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Band 1
Yolanda Garcia
3
Yolanda Garcia
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Band 3
Robert Velevis
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Robert Velevis
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Band 5