Its broad litigation practice sees Paul Hastings LLP excel in fintech, crypto, privacy and real estate disputes, as well as securities and antitrust litigation. The team boasts specialist knowledge of environmental and employment law and continues to expand its entertainment and media litigation capabilities. Cybersecurity is another increased area of focus, as well as various bet-the-company disputes, from fraud and defamation to IP, business tort and contract claims. As well as leading global entertainment and media entities, the growing team represents a stellar clientele across the sport, fashion and real estate sectors. Kurt Hansson leads the team from New York, leveraging extensive first-chair trial and arbitration experience, alongside Avi Weitzman, who has a strong background in white collar and civil trials. In San Francisco, Navi Dhillon is an expert in environmental litigation, representing clients across the investment funds, renewable energy and teach spaces. Paul Genender chairs the commercial litigation practice in Texas and is regularly called upon by public companies and private boards to handle commercial, business and bankruptcy disputes and governance, fiduciary duty and crisis management matters.
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Kernmandanten

  • Petróleos de Venezuela and PDVSA Petróleo – 2020 BondsDispute
  • Daiichi Sankyo
  • Goldman Sachs & Co, LLC, J.P. Morgan Securities LLC, BofA Securities, Inc., Citigroup Global Markets Inc., and Deutsche Bank Securities Inc., as underwriters of Kenvue, Inc.
  • Barclays Capital NoInpria and JSR (Japan)
  • bluebird bio and Third Rock Ventures
  • Rio Tinto
  • Nielsen Consumer
  • Cyrus Hodes, the co-founder of Stability AI
  • Align Technology, Inc.
  • Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E)

Highlight-Mandate

  • Represented Rio Tinto in the SEC’s suit against it and its former CEO and former CFO, filed in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.
  • Representing Inpria Corporation and its parent company, JSR Corporation, a Japanese corporationthat was recently acquired by a Japanese government-owned fund for $6.4 billion, in recognition of the critical value of the technology owned by Inpria.
  • Represented Daiichi Sanko in Daiichi Sankyo’s multi-billion-dollar life sciences/general commercial contract dispute against U.S. biotech company Seagen.

Anwält*innen

Praxisleitung

Kwame Manley; William Whitner; Kurt Hansson; Avi Weitzman

Weitere Kernanwält*innen

Navi Dhillon; Paul Genender; Joshua Bennett; Bo Pearl; Susan Leader; Daniel Prince; Michelle Reed; Joshua Berman; Manuel Berrelez