Achyut J Phadke

Career

Achyut J. Phadke is a partner in the San Francisco office of Munger, Tolles & Olson who focuses on high-stakes securities and technology-related disputes.

Ranked by Chambers USA as one of the leading securities lawyers in California, Achyut regularly represents leading financial institutions and publicly traded companies and their officers and directors in securities litigation, securities class actions, shareholder litigation, and government and internal investigations. He also represents and advises technology companies in complex business and corporate disputes.

Achyut recently completed a four-year term as co-chair of the ABA’s Securities Litigation Committee and has spoken and written on various securities law topics. He also maintains an active pro bono practice. He helped lead litigation to open Foothills Park in Palo Alto, California, to non-residents and overturn a ban on non-resident access that had been in place for over 50 years, a result that was recognized by the Daily Journal. He also represented the ACLU of Northern California in public records act litigation related to California’s proposed lethal injection regulations. Achyut is a past board member of the South Asian Bar Association of Northern California.

Achyut graduated from Stanford Law School with distinction, where he was elected to Order of the Coif and was an articles editor on the Stanford Law Review. After law school, he served as a law clerk with the Honorable Pamela Ann Rymer of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.