Greenberg Traurig‘s financial services team has been praised for its ’excellent commercial litigation advice’ and the firm integrates experience in class action fraud cases, arbitration, post-bankruptcy disputes, and the False Claims Act. Guidance for multi-jurisdictional clients on digital asset regulation, white-collar matters, and AML compliance are other mandates which the firm acts. Chicago’s Paul Ferak leads the group and has led on financial crime and data privacy cases for banks and banking subsidiaries. A ‘powerhouse litigator’, New York’s Sylvia Simson is a class action and appellate litigation specialist while in Dallas Karl Dial leads on both arbitration and high-value civil litigation matters.
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Testimonials
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‘Quick response time, excellent commercial litigation advice, and appropriately staffing matters’
‘Sylvia Simson is a powerhouse litigator who provides us with the strategic oversight that we want from a seasoned partner.’
- 'They act as a true team operating seamlessly across office. The team is diverse. They take the time to know us, our people and our needs.'
- 'Jon Cyprys is the relationship partner who, in addition to doing great substantive work, does a fabulous job curating the right team for each of our matters and overseeing to be our single point of contact regardless of whether he is working on the matter personally.'
Key clients
- Binance Holdings Limited
- HSBC Equity Partners USA, L.P.
- HSBC Private Equity Partners II USA L.P.
- JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A.
- Frost Bank and Cullen/Frost Bankers, Inc.
Work highlights
Defending Binance Holdings Limited in a Massachusetts federal court case where 26 plaintiffs allege that Binance, Binance.US, and Changpeng Zhao participated in a RICO conspiracy by failing to prevent fraudsters from using their platforms to cash out proceeds from "pig butchering" schemes.
Represented HSBC Equity Partners USA, L.P. and HSBC Equity Partners II USA, L.P. in litigation arising from the Chapter 11 bankruptcy of Tops Holding II Corporation.
Representing JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A. in a class action securities fraud case filed alleging a Ponzi scheme engaged in by unregistered investment managers involving securities sold to hundreds of investors.
Practice head
Paul Ferak
Other key lawyers
Sylvia Simson; Karl Dial; Jon Cyprys