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MoloLamken LLP Offices

MoloLamken LLP
430 PARK AVENUE
NEW YORK, NY 10022
NEW YORK
United States
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Justin Ellis

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(212) 607-8159 jellis@mololamken.com

Position

Justin Ellis litigates high-stakes business disputes from the filing of a complaint through appeal. He tries cases and argues appeals in federal and state courts, often on complex commercial and financial subjects. He has litigated in every level of the judicial system from state trial courts to the Supreme Court of the United States. Mr. Ellis has particular experience in bankruptcy, distressed debt, and structured finance litigation, with clients including corporations, hedge funds and asset managers, indenture trustees, family offices, and high net worth individuals.

MoloLamken routinely handles cases with dozens of witnesses, massive document productions, and cutting-edge legal questions.  Clients turn to Justin to push these cases through to resolution.  And they depend on him to help distill technical, sprawling records into a clear – and compelling – story for trial.  Justin regularly works with a wide range of experts, graphics and jury consultants, and lawyers from multiple firms to create a unified and efficient fighting force for the client. Together with the MoloLamken team, he has helped recover over $2 billion in settlements and judgments for clients over the last five years.

Career

Prior to joining MoloLamken, Mr. Ellis was an associate in the New York office of Sullivan & Cromwell LLP. He also served as a law clerk to the Honorable Frank H. Easterbrook, Chief Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit and as a research assistant to the Honorable Richard A. Posner and Professor William Landes.

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United States > Dispute resolution > Securities litigation: plaintiff

MoloLamken LLP is a national litigation boutique that handles a broad range of complex litigation, ranging from securities fraud cases to white-collar defense matters. Steven Molo in New York leads the practice and is known as a compelling courtroom advocate, which helps him to reach significant settlements, often on the eve of trial. He recently achieved a $14m settlement in a long-running 10b-5 securities fraud stockholder class action against Dakota Plains, which transported oil developed from fracking in North Dakota to the coasts. Molo and Washington DC-based partners Robert Kry  and Lauren Weinstein are currently representing Deutsche Bank National Trust Company in one of more than a dozen suits that the firm is handling for securitization trustees against sponsors and originators of defective subprime mortgage loan securitizations in federal and state courts. In this case, investors lost more than $495m. New York-based Justin Ellis worked with Molo to assist Contrarian Capital Management LLC with its breach of contract actions arising out of the failure by Venezuela and its state-owned oil company, PDVSA, to pay principal and interest on debt in excess of $1bn.

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