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Kevin Orsini is co-head of the litigation department at Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP and is based in the firm’s New York office, bringing extensive experience in antitrust, securities and M&A litigation. In 2025, he represented American Express in an antitrust class action case, in which plaintiffs alleged that the company’s anti-steering rules violated Sherman Act and Clayton Act antitrust regulations, with the jury unanimously finding that the company was not liable for these claims. He also secured a favorable settlement for Xcel Energy in a number of lawsuits relating to the Marshall Wildfire, and has been retained by Xcel to represent them in further actions.
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Kevin J. Orsini, Co-Head of Cravath’s Litigation Department, is widely recognized as one of the top trial lawyers and crisis advisors in the country. An “established, all‑purpose trial powerhouse” with substantial first‑chair trial experience, Mr. Orsini is a fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers and has been named Benchmark Litigation’s “Trial Lawyer of the Year,” “General Commercial Litigator of the Year” and “Antitrust Attorney of the Year.”
Mr. Orsini “attends to a remarkably diverse practice that touches on commercial, antitrust and the one‑of‑a‑kind phenomenon of ‘event‑driven’ litigation, often of the most complex, contentious and highest‑stakes variety.” (Benchmark Litigation)
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