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Akin Offices
ONE BRYANT PARK
NEW YORK, NY 10036
NEW YORK
United States
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Joseph Sorkin
Work Department
Partner; Disputes & Investigations
Position
Joseph Sorkin is a trial attorney who has consistently achieved favorable results for clients in a wide range of settings, including federal and state courts around the country, as well as arbitrations. Joseph regularly represents clients engaged in contentious disputes related to corporate restructuring and handles a full range of contested matters and adversarial proceedings in complex Chapter 11 proceedings.
To learn more about Joseph, please visit his profile here:
https://www.akingump.com/en/lawyers-advisors/joseph-l-sorkin.html
Memberships
Legal Aid Society, Board Member
Education
J.D., University of Wisconsin Law School, cum laude, 2001
B.A., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1994
Lawyer Rankings
United States > Dispute resolution > General commercial disputes
Akin is well-known in the market for its industry-specific expertise in disputes related to investment funds, hedge funds, and financial restructuring matters. The group’s recent caseload includes securities litigation, stockholder class actions, breach of contract claims, and APA litigation. New York’s Joseph Sorkin heads up the practice group and chiefly handles restructuring and bankruptcy litigation. In New York, Stephen Baldini is a key contact for private equity and hedge fund matters, as well as bankruptcy litigation and partnership/investor disputes. From the Dallas office, Scott Barnard‘s practice emphasizes business torts, fraud actions, commercial contract disputes, and real estate litigation.
Lawyer Rankings
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- International trade > Customs, export controls and economic sanctions
- Government > Government relations
- Finance > Restructuring (including bankruptcy): corporate
- International trade > Trade remedies and trade policy
Firm Rankings
- Investment fund formation and management > Alternative/hedge funds
- Media, technology and telecoms > Cyber law (including data privacy and data protection)
- Industry focus > Education
- Energy > Energy transactions: oil and gas
- M&A/corporate and commercial > M&A: middle-market ($500m-999m)
- Media, technology and telecoms > Media and entertainment: transactional
- Industry focus > Native American law
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Corporate governance
- Government > Government contracts
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Private equity buyouts: middle-market (Up to $500m)
- Investment fund formation and management > Private equity funds (including venture capital)
- Energy > Renewable/alternative power
- Dispute resolution > Securities litigation: defense
- Finance > Capital markets: debt offerings
- Finance > Capital markets: high-yield debt offerings
- International trade > CFIUS
- Energy > Energy transactions: electric power
- Environment > Environment: transactional
- Dispute resolution > General commercial disputes
- Labor and employment > Labor and employment disputes (including collective actions)
- Antitrust > Merger control
- Intellectual property > Patents: litigation (International Trade Commission)
- Finance > Project finance
- Media, technology and telecoms > Telecoms and broadcast: regulatory
- Tax > US taxes: non-contentious
- Labor and employment > Workplace and employment counseling
- Healthcare > Life sciences
- Intellectual property > Patents: litigation (full coverage)
- Real estate > Real estate
- Industry focus > Sport
- Dispute resolution > Appellate: courts of appeals / Appellate: supreme courts (states and federal)
- Finance > Commercial lending
- Dispute resolution > Corporate investigations and white-collar criminal defense
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Shareholder activism