Kevin Schwartz
USA Guide 2023
Up and Coming : Litigation: General Commercial
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About
Provided by Kevin Schwartz
Practice Areas
Mr. Schwartz’s practice includes corporate, commercial, and securities litigation at both the trial and appellate levels, as well as a variety of regulatory and corporate governance matters that include leading the firm’s specialized Crypto Team to address rapidly changing issues generated by the cryptoasset industry. He has worked on a number of the firm’s high-profile matters, including mergers-and-acquisitions litigation in the courts of Delaware and other complex litigation in courts around the country.
Career
Mr. Schwartz serves on the Executive Committee of the New York City Bar Association, where he was previously Chair of the Judiciary Committee, and is also a Visiting Lecturer in Law at Yale Law School. Mr. Schwartz received his B.A. from Harvard College and was awarded the Sophia Freund Prize as the top-ranked summa cum laude graduate. He earned his M.B.A. and Ph.D. from Oxford University as a Marshall Scholar, received his J.D. from Yale Law School, and previously served as a Lecturer on the Political Science Department Faculty of Yale University. Mr. Schwartz served as a law clerk to Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg on the Supreme Court of the United States and to Judge Guido Calabresi on the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.
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