Paul Hastings LLP

With strong nationwide coverage, particularly on the East and West Coasts, and also regularly leveraging other key complementary practice groups, including white-collar, complex litigation and corporate, Paul Hastings LLP is well-positioned to provide a comprehensive service to clients across a wide range of securities fraud class actions and associated regulatory probes. As well as handling its fair share of work for public companies on the issuer side, the team, which is led from New York by Jennifer Conn, has strong traction among many banks, including Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan and Credit Suisse, regularly acting for them in fraud allegations in the context of their role as underwriters on securities issuances and M&A transactions. New York-based Barry Sher is also very well-liked by defendant banks, handling a myriad of general commercial litigation, antitrust, and securities litigation. Leveraging experience both in private practice and in-house for the SEC, Washington DC-based attorney Brad Bondi has vast experience across a myriad securities fraud issues, including as it relates to insider trading and short selling. Scott Carlton in Los Angeles, who has a strong grounding in securities law matters, including those relating to relatively novel areas including crypto and ESG; Palo Alto-based Edward Han, who is skilled at handling private and government-initiated securities cases; and San Francisco-based former SEC enforcement attorney Kenneth Herzinger are all key contacts of the firm’s strong West Coast offering.