A partner in the Litigation Department, Brette serves as Co-Chair of the Investment Management Litigation Practice Group and Deputy Co-Chair of the Antitrust Practice Group. She represents clients in a broad range of complex commercial disputes, with particular focus on litigation involving investment advisors and their portfolio companies, as well as antitrust and unfair competition litigation.
Brette’s significant representations include:
- Mastercard in several of the largest antitrust litigations nationally, including the successful defense of a $5.6 billion settlement in a massive damages class action regarding the fees and rules governing merchants’ acceptance of payment cards.
- The Ultimate Fighting Championship in the settlement of a high-profile antitrust class action brought by 1,200 former mixed martial arts fighters claiming over $1 billion in damages.
- World Wrestling Entertainment in the favorable settlement of an antitrust action brought by competitor Major League Wrestling.
- Major League Baseball in a putative antitrust class action concerning sales of MLB-licensed goods on third-party online platforms.
- The NFL in several high-profile matters, including securing a partial win on a motion to compel arbitration in litigation alleging racial discrimination in the hiring of senior coaches; and winning the dismissal, with prejudice, of the majority of a former NFL Media reporter’s wrongful termination lawsuit.
- Northwestern University in a widely reported, independent review of Northwestern’s athletics department’s culture and accountability mechanisms, following hazing and bullying reports.
- Blackstone Alternative Asset Management in multiple litigations concerning a groundbreaking $50 billion derivative claim on behalf of the Kentucky Retirement Systems, as well as several landmark appellate victories, including an April 2023 Kentucky Court of Appeals decision holding that the Kentucky AG should never have been permitted to intervene in and revive a previously dismissed lawsuit.
Brette earned her A.B. from Princeton University, with honors, and her J.D. from Columbia Law School, where she was a James Kent Scholar and notes editor of the Columbia Law Review.
Brette was most recently recognized as one of Bloomberg’s “They’ve Got Next: 40 Under 40 in Antirust” and as “Lawyer of the Year – Under 40” finalist by the Global Competition Review. In 2023, she was named an “Up and Coming” lawyer by Chambers in the Litigation: General Commercial (NY) category and as a Law360 “Rising Star” for Sports & Betting. Benchmark Litigation has recognized Brette on its “40 and Under Hot List” 2020-2024, most recently calling her an “emerging talent in antitrust litigation.” The New York Law Journal named Brette a “Rising Star” in its 2021 New York Legal Awards. Brette is a member of the New York State Bar Association’s Antitrust Law Section and the Federal Bar Council First Decades Committee. She also serves on the Board of Trustees of the Randall’s Island Park Alliance.
Updated July 2024
