Joel C Haims

Practice Areas

Litigation: Securities

Career

Joel is a litigator with more than 25 years of experience representing clients in business-critical securities litigation, including class actions, shareholder derivative cases, and corporate control litigation, as well as U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) enforcement proceedings and corporate internal investigations. He also has substantial experience litigating complex commercial and real estate cases.

Joel regularly represents public companies and their officers, directors, and board committees in cases before trial and appellate courts throughout the country and in mediation to facilitate settlement. He defends clients across a diverse range of industries and has extensive experience advising foreign-based companies in connection with securities and compliance issues related to their cross-border and U.S. operations. Joel works closely with the firm’s Business & Finance Department lawyers advising clients on corporate and securities transactions.

He is also frequently called upon by boards and senior executives to advise on directors’ and officers’ (D&O) insurance coverage.

Personal

J.D., Cornell Law School; B.B.A., Baruch College