David Kotler > Dechert LLP > New York, United States > Lawyer Profile

Dechert LLP
Three Bryant Park, 1095 Avenue of the Americas
NEW YORK, NY 10036-6797
NEW YORK
United States
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Work Department

Financial Services and Investment Management

Position

Partner

Career

David A. Kotler, co-chair of the U.S. Asset Management Litigation/Enforcement practice, advises and represents clients in a wide range of complex corporate and commercial litigation matters involving the financial markets, with a particular focus on investment advisers and other financial services firms both within and outside the mutual fund industry. Mr. Kotler also frequently counsels boards and senior management on a variety of litigation-related matters.

Education

  • Cornell University, B.A., 1990
  • New York University School of Law, J.D., 1993, Staff Editor of the Annual Survey of American Law

Lawyer Rankings

United States > Dispute resolution > M&A litigation: defense

Dechert LLP has a practice that operates across the country, enabling it to be active in many key fora including the Delaware Court of Chancery. The practice is led from Chicago by Joni Jacobsen and frequently acts for acquirers, sellers, bidders, corporate officers and directors, special board committees, investment banks and advisers, venture capitalists, individual investors, private equity firms, hedge funds, sovereign funds and many other stakeholders in litigation concerning corporate takeovers, material adverse change, valuation and more. In San Francisco, Joshua Hess (who is ‘a great litigator, extremely smart, trusted advisor‘) and Richard Horvath are the key contacts. David Kotler in New York, and  David Kistenbroker, who works from both New York and Chicago, are also highly regarded. Kistenbroker and Jacobsen handled a class action for PureCycle Technologies concerning allegations that the company made materially false and misleading statements or omissions regarding its business in the lead up to its reverse merger with ROCH SPAC.