About

Provided by Milbank LLP

Milbank Tweed, Hadley & McCloy LLP is one of the few law firms that leading corporations and financial institutions throughout the world actively seek out to handle their most important, financially significant and difficult litigation and arbitration matters. Milbank lawyers represent clients across the spectrum of business disputes arising from mergers and acquisitions, proxy battles, international and domestic financings, corporate restructurings, securities offerings, class action defense, and real estate workouts. Our white-collar criminal practice assists corporations in the defense of criminal and regulatory proceedings and discreetly handles highly sensitive internal investigations of potential wrongdoing by corporate insiders.


Milbank litigators handle the full range of litigation and arbitration matters, including complex adversarial proceedings. We regularly represent companies in “bet the company” cases and are frequently called on to manage multi-jurisdictional litigation.

Chambers Review

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Litigation: Securities - New York
3
Band 3
What the team is known for

Milbank has a high-level corporate litigation practice that offers deep understanding of complex financial markets and instruments. The firm acts for clients such as private equity funds, global investment banks and individual investors on a range of securities and commercial disputes, including cases involving asset-backed securities and CDOs. Its lawyers have notable strength in acting for groups of underwriters in complex claims. The group draws on excellent firmwide capability in creditor-side restructuring to handle sophisticated and often cross-border litigation in that area. It also offers notable capability handling complex multijurisdictional disputes.

Work Highlights

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  • Milbank represent PLDT in a class action alleging PLDT and nine of its current and former directors and officers made materially false and misleading statements regarding capital expenditures during the period 2019 and 2022, with approximately 48 billion Philippine pesos at issue.

Strengths

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Notable Practitioners

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Scott Edelman
2
Scott Edelman
2
Band 2

Scott Edelman comes highly recommended for his impressive practice, which covers high-stakes commercial disputes and securities class and derivative actions, as well as criminal mandates.

"His judgment is outstanding."

"Scott thinks outside the box and is effective in framing issues in relation to how they will help or hinder Milbank's clients."

"He's an eminently qualified adviser to clients of the highest profile. He has tremendous gravitas and experience and his judgment is impeccable."

Sean M Murphy
3
Sean M Murphy
3
Band 3

Sean Murphy excels at the representation of banks and investment funds in securities litigation. He has a strong track record in excessive fee cases as well as financial crisis litigation.

"He excels in all phases of litigation and trial. His ability to focus the court on the main issues and to defuse opposing arguments is impressive."

Jed M. Schwartz
5
Jed M. Schwartz
5
Band 5

Jed Schwartz has experience assisting issuers, underwriters and auditors in a wide array of shareholder actions.

"He is responsive and when preparing an approach for us he is very thorough and has significant attention to detail."

"He is knowledgeable, easy to work with and responsive."

Stacey J Rappaport
5
Stacey J Rappaport
5
Band 5

Stacey Rappaport is regularly retained by corporations and financial institutions on diverse commercial disputes, often concerning complex financial transactions. Her recent experience includes representation of major insurers.

"She is very sharp in grasping technical issues and translating technical facts and conclusions into client-beneficial arguments and strategies."

"She is able to manage immensely complex cases, while keeping the strategy focused and easily explainable."

Atara Miller
6
Atara Miller
6
Band 6

Atara Miller is a go-to litigator for financial institutions, corporates and individuals seeking expert representation in commercial litigation and class actions as well as bankruptcy and securities-related disputes.

Ranked Lawyers at
Milbank LLP

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New York

Litigation: General Commercial

Scott Edelman
2
Scott Edelman
2
Band 2
Stacey J Rappaport
5
Stacey J Rappaport
5
Band 5
Atara Miller
6
Atara Miller
6
Band 6
Litigation: Securities

Scott Edelman
2
Scott Edelman
2
Band 2
Sean M Murphy
3
Sean M Murphy
3
Band 3
Jed M. Schwartz
5
Jed M. Schwartz
5
Band 5

Members

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Alan Stone

Atara Miller

Christopher Gaspar

Daniel Perry

David Gelfand

Fredrick Zullow

Jed Schwartz

Joseph Genova

Katherine Goldstein

Robert Hora

Stacey Rappaport

Tawfiq Rangwala

Thomas Arena

Wayne Aaron