Mark T. Stancil

Practice Areas

Focuses on trial and appellate advocacy in complex commercial litigation, with a particular focus on investment disputes. Represents hedge funds; multi-strategy asset managers; and various trustees, agents, and ad hoc groups with significant financial interests in the outcome of litigation. Cases often involve novel questions of law and complex financial transactions, and frequently implicate bankruptcy disputes or legal rights and priorities arising under bond indentures or similar instruments. Served as lead litigator at every level of the federal judiciary, arguing significant and case-dispositive motions in multiple district courts, and briefing and arguing numerous appeals before the U.S. Courts of Appeals for the First, Second, Third, Fourth, and Ninth Circuits. Has argued five cases before the Supreme Court of the United States, briefed many more, and filed scores of briefs at the certiorari stage.

Litigated a wide variety of issues including the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act, constitutional claims, the Hatch-Waxman Act, partnership tax controversies, intellectual property litigation (copyright, trademark, and trade secrets), Section 1983 litigation and qualified immunity, federal securities disputes, accounting fraud and accounting regulatory matters, SEC disclosure issues, and the Alien Tort Statute.

Personal

JD, University of Virginia School of Law, 1999; MA, University of Virginia, 1999; BA, University of Virginia, 1996.