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Harold S. Shaftel

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Work Department

Litigation

Position

Shareholder

Career

Hal Shaftel is an experienced trial lawyer who focuses on complex commercial litigation covering a range of areas and business sectors. His experience includes handling jury and bench trials and appeals in court rooms across the country; financial and antitrust regulatory proceedings; and domestic and international arbitrations. He has prevailed in litigations involving securities law and financial regulation, corporate governance, antitrust, joint ventures and partnerships, intellectual property, insurance/reinsurance, real estate and infrastructure, and products liability. He is proud to have served major and innovative companies and individuals in the financial services and funds, medical and Internet technology, media and content, healthcare, real estate development and consulting industries. As recently as 2016, Hal was lead counsel on behalf of the prevailing party in a Delaware Chancery Court case that Law 360 described as one of the most important corporate governance cases of the year.

Capabilities
Trial Practice
Real Estate Litigation
Mergers & Acquisitions Litigation
Litigation
Commercial Litigation
Securities Litigation 
Financial Services Litigation
Corporate
Antitrust Litigation & Competition Regulation
International Arbitration & Litigation

Admission to Practice
New York
U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York
U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

Languages

English

Education

• J.D., Yale Law School, 1989

  • Senior editor, Yale Law Journal

• B.A., magna cum laude, Yale University, 1986