Gregory Markel is chairman of the Litigation Department of Seyfarth Shaw LLP’s New York office, is Co-Chair of the national Securities Litigation Practice, and is a member of the National Litigation Leadership Team. Mr. Markel is a nationally known trial lawyer with wide experience in securities litigation, corporate governance litigation, mergers and acquisition litigation, directors and officers defense, and antitrust litigation particularly in bet your company cases. Mr. Markel is also a founder and chair of the Center for Corporate Governance at the New York County Lawyers Association Center for Corporate Governance.
He is a recognized leader in the profession, including by Benchmark as a national Litigation Star, for outstanding performance by Best Lawyer’s in America and he has for 20 years been ranked by Chambers for Securities Litigation. He was named by Best Lawyers as M&A Litigation, Lawyer of the Year, for 2017. LawDragon magazine inducted Mr. Markel into its Hall of Fame and recognized Mr. Markel as a “legend” and one of the few lawyers and judges in the United States who was named to the LawDragon 500 for 10 consecutive years. He has also been recognized by many other publications, including Super Lawyers which has rated him as one of the Top 100 Lawyers in New York, Legal 500 Leading Commercial Litigators, “Best in Class” in law by BestofUS.com, The International Who’s Who of Commercial Litigators and many others.
Mr. Markel is a graduate of Yale Law School, the University of Michigan with an MBA with distinction in Finance and Columbia College.
He is a member of the Business Law, Litigation and Antitrust sections of the American Bar Association; the Federal Bar Council; the City Bar Committee on Securities Litigation; the Securities Industry Association – Compliance & Legal Division, and the New York State Bar Association – Commercial Litigation Section. He frequently speaks on panels and writes on a range of topics, such as director’s and officer’s liability, securities and derivative litigation, commercial litigation, accountants’ defense, law firm management and Internet litigation.
Updated Oct 2024
