Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP is a key port of call for oil and gas and aerospace and defense industry clientele. The firm’s broad practice represents corporate defendants as well as individual officers and directors in class actions and individual actions. Its practice has also extended to internal and government investigations and related proceedings such as shareholder derivative actions and ERISA cases. The team is based in New York. Daniel Slifkin has extensive experience with securities fraud class action matters, while Antony Ryan combines securities litigation work with government investigations and enforcement experience. Karin DeMasi handles a range of securities class action litigation and related shareholder matters. Lauren Moskowitz has experience litigating before the US Supreme Court, and Lauren Rosenberg is recommended for securities, general commercial, and antitrust matters.
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Testimonials
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- ‘Very efficient and effective.’
- ‘Cravath has an exceptional litigation practice, including but not limited to its defense of securities litigation matters. They have a particularly deep bench of securities litigators, and they can be trusted to outthink and outwork their adversaries. They are also tremendously creative.’
- ‘They would be my first call for an important securities litigation.’
Key clients
- Blackstone Inc.
- Clearwater Analytics Holdings, Inc.
- Deutsche Telekom AG
- Dfinity Foundation
- Endava, plc
- Occidental Petroleum Corporation
- Oddity Tech Ltd.
- Robinhood Markets, Inc.
- Root, Inc.
- Sana Biotechnology Inc.
- Spirit AeroSystems Inc.
- Stanley Black & Decker, Inc.
Work highlights
Cravath secured back-to-back wins for Dfinity in purported class action securities litigation in California federal and state courts that raises whether Dfinity’s Internet Computer Project master governance tokens qualify as securities. We obtained a summary judgment victory in the state court action—an important win in the cryptocurrency space in a largely unsettled area of the law—and then secured dismissal of the federal court action.
Cravath is representing Occidental Petroleum in a putative class action securities litigation concerning the company’s business and operations in the Shenandoah deepwater oil field.
Cravath is representing Stanley Black & Decker in a putative class action securities litigation and related consolidated shareholder derivative litigation, alleging the company made false and misleading statements concerning its tool manufacturing business.
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Other key lawyers
Daniel Slifkin; Antony Ryan; Lauren Moskowitz; Timothy Cameron; Kevin Orsini; Wes Earnhardt; Lauren Rosenberg; Rebecca Schindel; Karin DeMasi