Alex Kaplan

Practice Areas

Alex Kaplan represents clients throughout the United States to solve their most complex challenges, which often involve high-stakes litigation and investigations, threatened disputes, and bet-the-company crises. Alex’s clients include private equity and venture capital firms (or their portfolio companies), hedge funds, mutual funds (or their advisers), public and private companies, executives, and boards. He has a particular focus on securities litigation, litigation relating to mergers and acquisitions, corporate governance issues, proxy contests, board committee/internal investigations, as well as in-depth experience with the mutual fund industry. Alex’s experience encompasses the major securities litigation events across the country during the past 20+ years, including lawsuits concerning Enron, WorldCom, stock options backdating, auction rate securities, mortgage-backed securities, sales practices concerning derivative instruments, the intersection between best execution, payment for order flow, and high-frequency trading, as well as “stock drops” following restatements and other events. He also has obtained victories for his clients in disputes over transactions, governance, stockholder agreements, and mutual fund issues, including actions from Delaware to California, New York to Texas, and numerous other jurisdictions.