Helam Gebremariam

Helam Gebremariam represents clients in a wide variety of complex litigation, including shareholder derivative, mergers and acquisitions, general commercial, securities and antitrust matters. She handles all stages of critical litigation and her “incredible judgment” skills, particularly in significant trials and arbitrations, have been praised as a “tour de force.” (Benchmark Litigation)

• Representing Yale New Haven Health in litigation claiming Prospect Medical Holdings has breached an Asset Purchase Agreement concerning the acquisition of three Connecticut hospitals. The claims seek a declaratory judgment that the conditions of closing have not been satisfied due to Prospect’s breach of representations that give rise to a Material Adverse Change and Prospect’s breach of a covenant to operate the hospitals in the Ordinary Course.
• Representing Citigroup in putative class action litigation asserting breach of contract and fiduciary duty claims for alleged failure to achieve “best execution” in equity trades.
• Representing American Express (“Amex”) in class action litigation brought in New York federal court by classes of debit card and non rewards credit card users in multiple states alleging that Amex’s non discrimination provisions inflated prices paid for goods and services sold by merchants across the country.

• Competition/antitrust
• Dispute resolution
• Securities