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Susan Muck
Work Department
Life Sciences ; Securities Enforcement ; Securities Litigation ; SPAC (Special Purpose Acquisition Company) Transactions ; Technology ; Trials
Position
Partner
Career
Susan Muck focuses her practice on shareholder class actions, derivative suits, and internal and US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) investigations. She also regularly advises boards and management on disclosure and accounting issues, cybersecurity, the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA), whistleblower investigations, and other high-profile governance matters. Her practice spans a wide range of industries, including life science, software, social media, cloud computing, energy, financial services and retail. Ms. Muck has represented companies, directors and officers in a wide variety of SEC, US Department of Justice and whistleblower investigations. She has also developed FCPA, UK Bribery Act, and general ethics and compliance programs for dozens of public and private companies.
Ms. Muck has practiced in the Bay Area for more than three decades. She joined WilmerHale in 2020 after more than 15 years at another law firm, where she co-founded the securities litigation and securities enforcement practices and served as a trusted advisor to many of the region’s most innovative technology and sharing-economy companies.
Professional Activities
A dedicated member of the legal community, Ms. Muck is a founding member of Women in Securities, a network for women securities litigators, and is an active member of the Women’s White Collar Defense Association.
Ms. Muck has lectured and written extensively on governance, crisis management, shareholder litigation and compliance, including for the Association of Corporate Counsel, Compliance Week, Law360, Northwestern University and Stanford University.
Memberships
- California
Education
JD, University of Virginia School of Law, 1986
BA, University of Maryland at College Park, 1982
Lawyer Rankings
United States > Dispute resolution > Securities litigation: defense
(Leading lawyers)WilmerHale’s deep bench of securities litigators and regulatory enforcement specialists is frequently involved in high-stakes matters involving securities laws and rules of corporate governance actively litigated by government agencies, regulatory bodies and private parties. The firm has a presence across the US, notably in its California, New York, Boston and Washington DC offices. Stephanie Avakian in DC is chair of the securities and financial services department. Michael Bongiorno in New York and DC-based Matthew Martens co-chair the securities litigation and enforcement group. Kevin Muck and Susan Muck in San Francisco represented AnaptysBio in a class action alleging that its officers made false and misleading statements regarding one of the its drugs, etokimab, and in a derivative suit claiming that the directors breached their fiduciary duties. Up-and-coming partner Timothy Perla in Boston worked with Bongiorno to defend IVERIC bio, Inc. in a class action alleging that the company issued deceptively positive results about the success and potential of its treatment Fovista despite knowing that the Phase 3 clinical trial of the drug would be unsuccessful in achieving its primary endpoint.
Lawyer Rankings
- Leading lawyers United States > Dispute resolution > Securities litigation: defense
- Securities litigation: defense United States > Dispute resolution
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Finance > Financial services regulation
- Antitrust > Cartel
- International Trade > CFIUS
- Antitrust > Civil litigation/class actions: defense
- Industry focus > Education
- Industry focus > Native American law
- Intellectual property > Patents: litigation (full coverage)
Firm Rankings
- Media, technology and telecoms > Cyber law (including data privacy and data protection)
- Dispute resolution > General commercial disputes
- M&A/corporate and commercial > M&A: middle-market ($500m-999m)
- Media, technology and telecoms > Outsourcing
- Dispute resolution > Securities litigation: defense
- Government > State attorneys general
- Media, technology and telecoms > Technology transactions
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Venture capital and emerging companies
- Finance > Capital markets: equity offerings
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Corporate governance
- Government > Government contracts
- Dispute resolution > International arbitration
- Healthcare > Life sciences
- International Trade > Trade remedies and trade policy
- Finance > Capital markets: debt offerings
- International Trade > Customs, export controls and economic sanctions
- Labor and employment > Employee benefits, executive compensation and retirement plans: transactional
- Environment > Environment: regulatory
- Dispute resolution > Financial services litigation
- Finance > Fintech
- Government > Government relations
- Antitrust > Merger control
- Tax > US taxes: non-contentious
- Finance > Commercial lending
- Dispute resolution > Leading trial lawyers
- Real estate > Real estate
- Finance > Restructuring (including bankruptcy): corporate
- Dispute resolution > Appellate: courts of appeals / Appellate: supreme courts (states and federal)
- Dispute resolution > Corporate investigations and white-collar criminal defense
- Environment > Environment: litigation