In tandem with the firm’s white-collar investigations, arbitration, securities, bankruptcy, and antitrust teams, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP‘s commercial litigation practice represents clients in the gamut of disputes. The New York-based team excels in representation in parallel proceedings, on both a national and international scale. Tim Harkness co-lead the teams alongside Gayle Klein, co-head of US litigation and arbitration, who has a successful track record in class actions. David Livshiz’s cross-border commercial litigation practice sees him represent an impressive list of multinational corporations, financial institutions, sovereigns, and investment vehicles. Complex commercial and securities litigation specialist Andrew Gladstein is another name to note, alongside Elizabeth Curran. Linda Martin has left the firm.
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Key clients
- Next Fifteen Communications Corporation, Tim Dyson, and Mach49LLC
- London Stock Exchange Group plc (LSEG), FTSE InternationalLimited (FTSE)
- Rio Tinto
- Google LLC
- Tesla, Inc.
- Adobe, Inc.
- MTN Group Ltd.; MTN (Dubai) Ltd.; MTN Afghanistan; former executives of MTN Group Ltd.
- Tensyr Limited
- Sumitomo Pharma UK Holdings, Ltd.; Sumitomo Pharma America,Inc.; Myovant Sciences Ltd.
- The Industrial and Commercial Bank of China Financial Services
Work highlights
- Defended Next Fifteen Communication Group in a business tort and breach of contract action of over $300m, brought by a former shareholder of a company acquired by Next Fifteen.
- Representing Tesla in a number of putative class actions filed in federal court, in California and Pennsylvania, arising from a data security incident.
- Representing Rio Tinto in US federal class action in Puerto Rico against several oil, gas, and mining defendants, which alleges that the defendants’ production, promotion, refining, marketing and sale of fossil-fuel-based consumer products caused losses, deaths and destruction of property resulting from severe storms in Puerto Rico in September 2017.
Lawyers
Practice head
Gayle Klein; Tim Harkness
Other key lawyers
David Livshiz; Andrew Gladstein; Elizabeth Curran; Scott Eisman