Katherine Stoller > Shearman & Sterling LLP > New York, United States > Lawyer Profile
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Katherine Stoller
Work Department
Litigation
Position
Partner
Career
Katherine Stoller, a partner in the Firm’s Litigation practice, has wide-ranging experience involving white-collar criminal defense, internal investigations, regulatory enforcement matters, and securities and other complex litigation. She regularly represents financial institutions in cross-border investigations, with a focus on allegations of financial crime.
Katherine’s practice focuses on the representation of corporations, financial institutions, and individuals in investigations involving allegations of securities fraud, bank fraud, money laundering, economic sanctions violations, price fixing, accounting fraud, insider trading and the False Claims Act. She has represented companies and individuals under investigation by the U.S. Department of Justice, the Securities and Exchange Commission, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and the Office of Foreign Assets Control. She frequently represents financial institutions in parallel regulatory and criminal investigations.
Katherine also represents clients in a wide range of civil litigation, including securities and contract disputes. She has experience representing clients located outside the United State in cross-border litigation as well as enforcement investigations.
Memberships
New York
Courts
- United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit
- United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
- United States District Court for the Southern District of New York
- United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York
Education
J.D.
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- Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar
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B.A., magna cum laude
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- Phi Beta Kappa
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Lawyer Rankings
United States > Dispute resolution > International litigation
With a strong background in the financial services sector, Shearman & Sterling LLP has experience representing major US and non-US financial institutions in securities and antitrust litigation, particularly class actions, as well as regulatory investigations. The practice is led by Adam Hakki and Stephen Fishbein based in New York, and Patrick Robbins in San Francisco. Hakki is renowed for his expertise in securities litigation, acting for many of the firm’s major clients including Bank of America, Credit Suisse and Morgan Stanley. He is also experienced advising underwriting syndicates of IPOs in securities class actions as well as representing banks in trading market class actions. Brian Burke, based in New York and Shanghai, is another key name to note, concentrating on regulatory investigations across the Asia Pacific region, particularly advising multinationals with operations in China in matters relating to the FCPA, anti-money laundering, economic sanctions and antitrust. Jerry Fortinsky, also based in New York, shares this focus in Asia and leads the China securities litigation practice where he frequently defends shareholder lawsuits against US-listed Chinese companies. Katherine Stoller is a prominent player in white collar defense and internal investigations relating to securities and accounting fraud, as well as insider trading and money laundering, noted for her engagement with Danske Banke in investigations by both the DOJ and the SEC along with European regulatory authorities into money laundering and securities fraud.
United States > Dispute resolution > Corporate investigations and white-collar criminal defense
Shearman & Sterling LLP fields a team that consists of former enforcement attorneys and federal prosecutors. Experienced in financial, securities and antitrust regulation, the practice is well positioned to handle parallel investigations by enforcement agencies and federal regulators including the SEC and DOJ. Trial lawyer Stephen Fishbein and managing partner Adam Hakki, both based in the firm’s New York office, lead the practice jointly with Patrick Robbins in San Francisco, whose areas of focus include foreign corrupt practices, accounting and securities fraud as well as insider trading. Also in New York, John Nathanson represents companies and individuals in internal investigations and civil securities litigation, while Katherine Stoller is a key contact for allegations of financial crime.
Lawyer Rankings
- International litigation United States > Dispute resolution
- Corporate investigations and white-collar criminal defense United States > Dispute resolution
Top Tier Firm Rankings
Firm Rankings
- Finance > Capital markets: debt offerings
- Finance > Capital markets: global offerings
- Finance > Capital markets: high-yield debt offerings
- Antitrust > Civil litigation/class actions: defense
- Labor and employment > Employee benefits, executive compensation and retirement plans: transactional
- Tax > Financial products
- Dispute resolution > Financial services litigation
- Dispute resolution > General commercial disputes
- Dispute resolution > International litigation
- Tax > International tax
- Dispute resolution > M&A litigation: defense
- Tax > US taxes: non-contentious
- Finance > Capital markets: equity offerings
- Energy > Energy transactions: oil and gas
- Antitrust > Merger control
- Finance > Project finance
- Real estate > Real estate finance
- Finance > Structured finance: derivatives and structured products
- Antitrust > Cartel
- Energy > Energy transactions: electric power
- M&A/corporate and commercial > M&A: large deals ($1bn+)
- Investment fund formation and management > Mutual/registered/exchange-traded funds
- Real estate > Real estate
- Energy > Renewable/alternative power
- Tax > US taxes: contentious
- Dispute resolution > International arbitration
- Investment fund formation and management > Private equity funds (including venture capital)
- Finance > Restructuring (including bankruptcy): corporate
- Finance > Commercial lending
- Dispute resolution > Corporate investigations and white-collar criminal defense
- Finance > Financial services regulation
- Media, technology and telecoms > Advertising and marketing: litigation