With a strong focus on the cryptocurrency sector, litigation boutique Selendy Gay PLLC houses an experienced securities and structured finance team that represents clients in mortgage-backed securities, synthetic and asset-backed collateralized debt obligations, and residential mortgage-backed securities. With over 25 years of experience in the field, Philippe Selendy co-leads the practice and has extensive experience in financial and commercial disputes, alongside Jordan Goldstein, who represents investors in class actions against major crypto exchanges. Sean Baldwin has experience acting for clients before New York courts and the Delaware Court of Chancery, while Oscar Shine represents both plaintiffs and defendants in complex securities cases. Rajat Rana departed the firm in February 2025.
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Key clients
- Proposed class of investors in Binance
- A proposed class of investors who traded on BitMEX
- Putative class of crypto-investors who purchased securities on Coinbase
- Taewoo Kim, Kashyap Patel, Kerry Woolley, and Ken Worsham, individually and on behalf of a putative class of individuals
- Putative class of crypto-asset investors who purchased various crypto commodities at a time when the crypto commodity market had been artificially inflated by the defendants, Tether and Bitfinex
- A proposed class of investors who traded TRX
- U.S. Bank
- Henry Rodriguez and Plaintiff Daniel Valenti, individually and on behalf of all others similarly situated
- Fortis Advisors
- Trifecta Multimedia Holdings
- UMB Bank NA
Work highlights
Filed a proposed class action in the Southern District of New York against Binance, the world’s largest crypto-asset exchange, which allegedly offered and sold billions of dollars of unregistered digital tokens to investors in violation of federal and state securities laws.
A proposed class of investors who traded on BitMEX|BitMEX allowed users to purchase derivatives of crypto-assets at up to 100X leverage, exposing users to liquidation following even small amounts of volatility.
Filed 12 proposed class actions in the Southern District of New York on behalf of investors who traded on multiple digital exchanges.
Lawyers
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Practice head
Philippe Selendy; Jordan Goldstein
Other key lawyers
Sean Baldwin; Oscar Shine