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Zach Deaton
Work Department
Litigation
Position
Associate
Career
Zach Deaton is an associate in the Litigation practice. His current practice focuses on antitrust, securities, and white collar litigation, as well as government and internal investigations, and regulatory compliance. Zach has represented corporate clients in cases in federal and state courts in connection with securities and antitrust class actions and has represented individual clients in federal court in insider trading enforcement actions. Zach also has experience representing and advising clients in connection with investigations by the United States Department of Justice, Securities and Exchange Commission, and other regulators.
Zach is actively involved in pro bono work. He has successfully represented clients in asylum proceedings in Immigration Court and assisted clients in obtaining their release from detention by Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Zach also contributes to Shearman & Sterling’s Need-to-Know Litigation Weekly regarding M&A and Corporate Governance.
Memberships
- New York
Education
J.D.
B.A. in Economics
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