Brittany Sukiennik

Cravath Swaine Moore - New York

Partner

2 Manhattan West, 375 Ninth Avenue
New York, New York, 10001

+1 212 474 1946

40 & Under List

Future Star


Practice area:

Commercial
Competition/antitrust
Securities


Brittany L. Sukiennik focuses her practice on complex litigation, including mass torts and other commercial disputes. She routinely navigates some of the most expansive and high stakes cases, with particularly significant trial experience in courts across the nation.

  • Represented Robinhood in dozens of lawsuits, centralized in Florida federal court, including numerous putative class actions—securing a string of victories over more than three years to dismiss or otherwise resolve all claims against the company. The actions involved antitrust, contract, securities and various other state and federal claims arising out of Robinhood’s decision to temporarily place certain limits on trading in certain securities in the face of unprecedented market volatility. Ms. Sukiennik secured decisions dismissing all antitrust and state law claims filed against Robinhood, both of which were affirmed on appeal, and obtained a major ruling defeating class certification of the securities claims.
  • Representing PG&E in connection with mass tort litigation related to the California wildfires between 2019 and 2021. She previously represented the company in numerous lawsuits arising out of the unprecedented 2017 and 2018 California wildfires—one of the largest and most complex sets of mass tort litigation in recent years.
  • Representing Xcel Energy, a major U.S. electricity and natural gas company with operations in eight states, in hundreds of lawsuits filed against Xcel arising from the December 2021 Marshall Wildfire. The action is scheduled for a jury trial in 2025. Ms. Sukiennik also represents Xcel and its subsidiary, Southwestern Public Service Company, in more than a dozen actions concerning the February 2024 Texas Panhandle wildfires, which included the Smokehouse Creek Fire.
  • Representing Light & Wonder (formerly Scientific Games Corporation) in putative class action and individual antitrust litigation filed in Illinois federal court, and in an arbitration before the American Arbitration Association, involving Walker Process antitrust monopolization claims that concern automatic card shufflers used in casinos.

  • Commercial disputes