Band 5
Provided by Alex Kaplan
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.
Provided by Chambers
Alex Kaplan excels in the representation of public and private companies as well as host of funds facing complex securities and corporate governance related disputes.
Provided by Chambers
"He is a real advocate who has a tremendous ability to look around corners and guide clients on a range of complicated legal matters. He's also extremely responsive, a great listener, and takes the time to get to know his clients and their business."
"He has a great reputation in the legal community in NY and clients love him. He's perfect for the most difficult commercial cases and I go to him when I'm dealing with particularly difficult or thorny cases."
"He's client-friendly, service-oriented and practical in his approach. He's strategic in how we get things done and how he brings resources to bear."
"He is a real advocate who has a tremendous ability to look around corners and guide clients on a range of complicated legal matters. He's also extremely responsive, a great listener, and takes the time to get to know his clients and their business."
"He has a great reputation in the legal community in NY and clients love him. He's perfect for the most difficult commercial cases and I go to him when I'm dealing with particularly difficult or thorny cases."
"He's client-friendly, service-oriented and practical in his approach. He's strategic in how we get things done and how he brings resources to bear."
