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Aaron Goodman
Work Department
Litigation Arbitration & Dispute Resolution
Position
Aaron Goodman is a partner in Baker McKenzie’s Litigation & Government Enforcement, Global Compliance & Investigations, and Securities Litigation groups. He has broad experience litigating complex local, national and international matters from inception to trial. Aaron is a thought-leader in identifying and achieving strategic client goals, bringing disputes to resolution quickly and efficiently.
Career
Aaron has significant experience managing large, complex commercial cases, including significant deposition, arbitration and trial experience from forecasts, budgeting and strategy development to case resolution. He also has significant domestic and international investigations and regulatory experience, as well as, significant experience managing large-scale ESI (Sedona Conference® best practices concerning litigation holds, preservation, spoliation, and adverse inferences).
Aaron is a big believer in the importance of pro bono work and has been a lead attorney for numerous Access to Justice and Transitional Justice projects. He has worked with NGOs in Namibia, India, Myanmar, Trinidad, and Thailand (among others) and donated more than 1,000 hours of pro bono time to these projects.
Lawyer Rankings
United States > Dispute resolution > Securities litigation: defense
Displaying a ‘very collaborative approach’ among its core securities litigation lawyers at both an associate and partner level, as well as being able to leverage expertise across pivotal complementary areas of expertise, most notably with regard to white-collar and government investigations, Baker McKenzie LLP is able to provide a holistic service to defendants facing high-stakes securities class action and enforcement actions. Praised for his ‘exceptional understanding of the law, relevant legal theory and strategy development’, Los Angeles-based team head Perrie Weiner is pivotal to much of the most notable work it handles, including in niche areas relating to SPACs and cryptocurrency, and for individuals in SEC enforcement cases regarding alleged insider trading infractions. Also based out of Los Angeles, Aaron Goodman is ‘exceptional at explaining complex legal matters’, often working with Weiner on securities fraud cases involving alleged misstatements/omissions related to life sciences and technology companies. In Chicago, Peter Chan and Peter Tomczak are also key members of the team, with the former providing insight to clients facing SEC enforcement action by dint of his previous role at the regulator.
Lawyer Rankings
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- International trade and national security > Customs, export controls and economic sanctions
- Media, technology and telecoms > Cyber law (including data privacy and data protection)
- Finance > Fintech
- Finance > Project finance
- Tax > US taxes: contentious
Firm Rankings
- Labor and employment > Employee benefits, executive compensation and retirement plans: transactional
- Labor and employment > Immigration
- Dispute resolution > International litigation
- Tax > International tax
- Media, technology and telecoms > Outsourcing
- Dispute resolution > Securities litigation: defense
- Media, technology and telecoms > Technology transactions
- Labor and employment > Workplace and employment counseling
- Transport > Aviation and air travel: litigation and regulation
- Labor and employment > Employee benefits, executive compensation and retirement plans: design
- M&A/corporate and commercial > M&A: large deals ($1bn+)
- International trade and national security > National Security
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Private equity buyouts: middle-market (Up to $500m)
- Energy > Renewable/alternative power
- Intellectual property > Trademarks: non-contentious (including prosecution, portfolio management and licensing)
- Finance > Capital markets: equity offerings
- Antitrust > Cartel
- International trade and national security > CFIUS
- Environment > Environment: regulatory
- Intellectual property > Patents: prosecution (including re-examination and post-grant proceedings)
- Dispute resolution > Product liability, mass tort and class action - defense: consumer products (including tobacco)
- International trade and national security > Trade remedies and trade policy
- Tax > US taxes: non-contentious
- Antitrust > Civil litigation/class actions: defense
- Dispute resolution > International arbitration
- Antitrust > Merger control
- Finance > Restructuring (including bankruptcy): corporate
- Dispute resolution > Corporate investigations and white-collar criminal defense