Alex Kaplan

Practice Areas

ALEX KAPLAN represents clients throughout the United States to solve their most complex challenges, which often has involved over his 20+ year career high-stakes litigation and investigations, threatened disputes, and bet-the-company crises. Alex’s clients include private equity and venture capital firms, including their portfolio companies, hedge funds, mutual funds (or their advisers), public and private companies, executives, and boards. He also has significant experience in securities litigation, litigation relating to mergers and acquisitions, corporate governance issues, and proxy contests, board committee/internal investigations, as well as in-depth experience with the mutual fund industry.

Alex’s recent wins for his clients include disputes over transactions, governance, and stockholder agreements, with actions in Delaware, New York, California, Texas, and Puerto Rico. Further, Alex has deep experience with the mutual fund industry, including successful defenses of excessive fee actions, disclosure lawsuits under the federal securities laws, and shareholder demands on mutual fund boards. Alex additionally handles internal and regulatory investigations, and regularly counsels numerous private equity and venture capital firms, hedge funds, and mutual funds on a variety of risk issues.