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McDermott Will & Emery LLP Offices
340 MADISON AVENUE
NEW YORK, NY 10173-1922
NEW YORK
United States
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Joel Haims
Work Department
Trial
Position
Joel C. Haims focuses his practice on securities litigation, including class actions, shareholder derivative cases, and corporate control litigation, as well as Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) enforcement proceedings and corporate internal investigations. He 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 representing foreign-based companies in US securities litigation. He is also frequently called upon by boards and senior executives to advise on directors’ and officers’ (D&O) insurance coverage.
Joel also has extensive experience litigating complex commercial cases, including commercial real estate disputes and bankruptcies. For example, he has represented clients, including secured lenders, property owners, developers, and loan participants, in state and federal courts on a wide range of issues, including contractual matters such as buy-sell agreements and security enforcement, and recovering secured or unsecured assets.
In addition, Joel has extensive experience litigating religious rights cases, particularly under the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act (RLUIPA). For example, he served as lead trial counsel for the Westchester Day School in its landmark litigation against the Village of Mamaroneck and its Zoning Board of Appeals under RLUIPA, and he successfully defended the United States Tennis Association (USTA) in a religious discrimination lawsuit.
Lawyer Rankings
United States > Dispute resolution > Securities litigation: defense
McDermott Will & Emery LLP has an ‘outstanding securities litigation defense team, both in SEC regulatory and civil litigation matters’. The firm is best known for its work in class action matters in the key fora of New York, Delaware, Massachusetts, California, Illinois and Washington DC. Its client base spans a range of industries including energy, venture capital, investment banking, entertainment and accounting. Timothy Hoeffner in New York and Steven Scholes in Chicago are the lead partners. Scholes and ‘outstanding defense attorney’ Paul Helms, in Washington DC, are acting for seven former officers and directors of PG&E in a high-profile breach of fiduciary duty action originally filed as several shareholder derivative actions arising from the 2017 and 2018 wildfires in Northern California. Hoeffner achieved the dismissal of claims against accounting firm BDO in In re AmTrust Financial Services Inc., Securities Litigation. Seth Friedman is also recommended for defending accounting firms. New York’s Joel Haims joined the team from Morrison Foerster in June 2022.
Lawyer Rankings
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Media, technology and telecoms > Technology transactions
- Healthcare > Health insurers
- Healthcare > Life sciences
- Media, technology and telecoms > Outsourcing
- Healthcare > Service providers
- Tax > US taxes: contentious
- Tax > US taxes: non-contentious
Firm Rankings
- Insurance > Advice to insurers
- Labor and employment > Employee benefits, executive compensation and retirement plans: design
- Labor and employment > Employee benefits, executive compensation and retirement plans: transactional
- Energy > Energy regulation: electric power
- Tax > Financial products
- Labor and employment > Immigration
- Tax > International tax
- M&A/corporate and commercial > M&A: middle-market ($500m-999m)
- Dispute resolution > Product liability, mass tort and class action - defense: toxic tort
- Energy > Renewable/alternative power
- Intellectual property > Trademarks: non-contentious (including prosecution, portfolio management and licensing)
- Media, technology and telecoms > Cyber law (including data privacy and data protection)
- Labor and employment > ERISA litigation
- Dispute resolution > General commercial disputes
- Insurance > Insurance: non-contentious
- Labor and employment > Labor-management relations
- Antitrust > Merger control
- Intellectual property > Patents: prosecution (including re-examination and post-grant proceedings)
- Real estate > Real estate finance
- International Trade > Trade remedies and trade policy
- Labor and employment > Workplace and employment counseling
- Finance > Capital markets: equity offerings
- Antitrust > Cartel
- Antitrust > Civil litigation/class actions: defense
- Energy > Energy transactions: electric power
- Energy > Energy transactions: oil and gas
- Labor and employment > Labor and employment disputes (including collective actions)
- Intellectual property > Patents: litigation (full coverage)
- Dispute resolution > Securities litigation: defense
- Finance > Structured finance: derivatives and structured products
- Dispute resolution > Corporate investigations and white-collar criminal defense
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Private equity buyouts: large deals ($500m+)
- Real estate > Real estate
- Finance > Restructuring (including bankruptcy): corporate
- Investment fund formation and management > Private equity funds (including venture capital)
- Dispute resolution > Appellate: courts of appeals / Appellate: supreme courts (states and federal)
- Finance > Commercial lending
- Government > Government contracts
- Finance > Fintech
- Investment fund formation and management > Alternative/hedge funds