Litigation: General Commercial: Highly Regarded
USA Guide 2024 : New York
Band 5
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Provided by Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP
The firm’s full-service, transatlantic litigation team handles investigations, compliance and dispute resolution, including negotiation, mediation and arbitration.
Antitrust: Advising on global merger control in US, UK and international transactions, including HSR and antitrust compliance and monitoring programs.
Corporate & Financial Services Litigation and Regulation: Counseling clients in M&A, corporate control and activism-related litigation; corporate control and corporate governance issues; complex securities, shareholder and derivative litigations; and insider trading, market manipulation and fraud.
Intellectual Property: Leading trials and litigation in complex patent and trade secret matters in federal courts, and in ITC and WIPO proceedings. Enforces and defends claims; provides expert opinions; secures rights; evaluates, sells, or licenses IP; and conducts due diligence.
White Collar Defense & Investigations: Handling significant civil, criminal and administrative disputes and enforcement actions in federal and state proceedings and litigation, as well as in congressional investigations and hearings. Advises on corporate compliance and governance, internal investigations, audits and anti-corruptions laws, including US FCPA and UK Bribery Act.
Chambers Review
Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft is noted for its expertise in the financial services sector and is frequently engaged by banks, asset managers and industry groups to litigate a variety of complex cases, including securities disputes. It offers broad capabilities in commercial matters including contractual disputes, IP litigation and bankruptcy proceedings.
Strengths
Provided by Chambers
"The team is extremely professional and responsive and very thorough with legal analysis and procedural follow-up. It is extremely knowledgeable and professional."
"Cadwalader is well suited to handle the most complex fact patterns, especially when coupled with intricate client stakeholder dynamics."
"Their lawyers are insightful and solution-oriented."
"The team is extremely professional and responsive and very thorough with legal analysis and procedural follow-up. It is extremely knowledgeable and professional."
"Cadwalader is well suited to handle the most complex fact patterns, especially when coupled with intricate client stakeholder dynamics."
"Their lawyers are insightful and solution-oriented."
Notable Practitioners
Sean O'Shea is an experienced trial lawyer with expertise in commercial and white-collar litigation, and is highly sought after by private equity clients, hedge funds and corporates to handle complex disputes.
"He is very effective."