Mr Keith Hummel > Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP > New York, United States > Lawyer Profile
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Mr Keith Hummel

Work Department
Litigation.
Position
Keith R. Hummel is a member of Cravath’s Litigation Department and Co‑Chair of Cravath’s Intellectual Property Practice. He has extensive experience litigating complex commercial, intellectual property and antitrust disputes for plaintiffs and defendants in diverse fields, including biotechnology, pharmaceuticals, medical devices, home automation, computer hardware and software, telecommunications, coating systems, and wine and spirits.
Praised as “ingenious, resourceful, resolute and unflagging—there is nothing he cannot do when it comes to complex legal conflict,” Mr. Hummel is consistently recognized as one of the country’s leading practitioners in the intellectual property arena, particularly in critical multi‑jurisdictional patent disputes. (IAM Patent)
Lawyer Rankings
United States > Intellectual property > Patents: litigation (full coverage)
With expertise in a broad range of technologies and industries, Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP represents clients in intellectual property disputes and commercial transactions. The group’s breadth of technical knowledge allows it to act for clients in sectors such as consumer products, telecoms and media and entertainment, and it has specialist capabilities litigating patent disputes in the pharmaceuticals, medical devices and biotech fields. Operating out of New York, the IP practice is co-chaired by Keith Hummel, a patent attorney whose patent litigation practice spans a variety of industries, and David Kappos. Another key practitioner is Sharonmoyee Goswami, who focuses on intellectual property, antitrust and litigation relating to science and tech and is experienced acting for clients in multiple patent litigation venues, including the International Trade Commission and the Patent Trial and Appeal Board.
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Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Finance > Capital markets: debt offerings
- Finance > Capital markets: global offerings
- Antitrust > Civil litigation/class actions: defense
- Labor and employment > Employee benefits, executive compensation and retirement plans: transactional
- Environment > Environment: transactional
- Dispute resolution > Financial services litigation
- Dispute resolution > General commercial disputes
- Tax > International tax
- Dispute resolution > M&A litigation: defense
- M&A/corporate and commercial > M&A: large deals ($1bn+)
- Dispute resolution > Securities litigation: defense
- Tax > US taxes: non-contentious
Firm Rankings
- Finance > Capital markets: equity offerings
- Finance > Fintech
- Media, technology and telecoms > Media and entertainment: litigation
- Antitrust > Merger control
- Media, technology and telecoms > Telecoms and broadcast: transactions
- Finance > Capital markets: high-yield debt offerings
- Dispute resolution > Leading trial lawyers
- Dispute resolution > Leading trial lawyers
- Media, technology and telecoms > Media and entertainment: transactional
- Media, technology and telecoms > Technology transactions
- Intellectual property > Patents: litigation (full coverage)
- Finance > Financial services regulation
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Private equity buyouts: large deals ($500m+)
- 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