Tal J. Lifshitz

Practice Areas

Complex Litigation, Antitrust Violations, Fraud and Ponzi Schemes, Deceptive Trade Practices, Corporate Shareholder Disputes, Securities Law Violations, Class and Group Actions

Career

Tal J. Lifshitz is a partner in Kozyak Tropin & Throckmorton’s complex litigation department. An experienced litigator ranked by Forbes as one of America’s Top 200 Lawyers, he is part of the team at KTT that handles “bet the company” cases, class actions, and multidistrict litigation (MDLs) across the country. Tal, a former federal judicial law clerk with highly valued federal jury trial experience, has represented a wide range of sophisticated corporate, municipal, and individual clients – both as plaintiffs and defendants – in major disputes involving complex fraud, antitrust, and consumer protection matters.

Some of the cases Tal has worked on include managing the litigation stemming from the tragic Champlain Towers South building collapse in Surfside, Fla., as part of KTT’s court appointment as Co-Chair Lead Counsel in the In re: Champlain Towers South Collapse Litigation.  In less than 15 months, the KTT-led plaintiffs secured over $1.1 billion dollars in relief for the Surfside victims.

Most recently, Tal served as lead defense trial counsel on behalf of a globally respected expert on risk management and restructuring in a film financing dispute over the 2015 Natalie Portman film “Jane Got a Gun,” brought by the Boies Schiller Film Group. After a three-week trial, Tal and his team successfully secured a full defense verdict in their client’s favor.

Tal also represented 70% of victims of the $1.2 billion Scott Rothstein South Florida Ponzi scheme, leading to a nearly 100% recovery of these victims’ hundreds of millions of dollars in losses. And Tal played a leading role in securing a $150 million settlement against Raymond James on behalf of EB-5 immigrant investors in the Jay Peak scheme that misappropriated more than $350 million in investor funds.

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