Andrew Dunlap > Selendy Gay PLLC > New York, United States > Lawyer Profile
Selendy Gay PLLC Offices
1290 AVENUE OF THE AMERICAS
NEW YORK, NY 10104
NEW YORK
United States
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Andrew Dunlap
Work Department
Securities & Structured Finance
Position
Partner
Career
Andrew R. Dunlap is a founding partner of Selendy Gay.
Andrew is an experienced trial and appellate litigator who has been named a leading securities litigator by The Legal 500 and is ranked among the nation’s “Leading Plaintiff Financial Lawyers” by Lawdragon.
He has successfully represented clients in securities, contract, healthcare, antitrust, mass tort, RICO, ERISA, and constitutional matters, among others. Andrew was a key member of the team that represented the Federal Housing Finance Agency, as conservator for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, in recovering $25 billion from the world’s leading banks over the sale of residential mortgage-backed securities (RMBS), including the trial team that obtained an $800 million judgment from Nomura and RBS. In that litigation, Andrew obtained a summary judgment decision that banks did not act with reasonable care in creating the RMBS they sold to investors during the run-up to the financial crisis.
In his public interest practice, Andrew successfully defended New York City charter schools against suits challenging their ability to co-locate in Department of Education school buildings and demanding they pay rent to the DOE, obtaining denials of preliminary injunctions in both instances. Andrew also successfully defended a consent decree governing the delivery of medical services to Medicaid-eligible children in Tennessee in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit.
Andrew earned his J.D., magna cum laude, from Georgetown Law School, where he published a note in the Georgetown Law Journal and was an editor of the American Criminal Law Review. He serves on the board of the National Center for Law and Economic Justice and is a barrister of the American Inn of Court.
Education
Georgetown University Law Center (J.D., 2002)
Magna cum laude, Order of the Coif, Dean’s List
Johns Hopkins University (M.A., History, 1995)
Johns Hopkins University (B.A., History, 1994)
Lawyer Rankings
United States > Dispute resolution > Securities litigation: plaintiff
Selendy Gay PLLC in New York is a highly regarded litigation boutique that formed five years ago around a core group of pioneering litigators experienced in representing both plaintiffs and defendants in high-profile matters. The firm’s partners built their track record on cases involving mortgage-backed securities, and they continue to be involved in such cases. Practice head Philippe Selendy
, who is ‘a phenomenal lawyer’, Sean Baldwin, who was involved in two of the largest RMBS recoveries for trustees in history, Andrew Dunlap and Lena Konanova are all acting for US Bank in seeking recovery of hundreds of millions of dollars from DLJ Mortgage Capital, Inc. and Ameriquest Mortgage Company for alleged misconduct in originating and securitizing mortgage-backed securities that played a substantial role in causing the global financial crisis of 2008. The firm is now playing a prominent role in emerging areas of securities litigation and is currently co-counsel to multiple classes of crypto-asset investors in blockbuster litigations alleging violations of state and federal securities laws. Selendy is leading a team pursuing a putative class action on behalf of investors who purchased stablecoin USDT on Tether and Bitfinex alleging that USDT was not backed 1:1 with fiat currency reserves as had been claimed. Jordan Goldstein is also heavily involved in cryptocurrency cases.