Kevin J. Orsini is Co-Head of the Litigation Department. He regularly plays a central role in major corporate battles that redefine the law. With substantial first‑chair trial experience, he is a fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers and has been named Benchmark Litigation’s “Trial Lawyer of the Year” and “General Commercial Litigator of the Year.”
Mr. Orsini’s practice focuses on complex litigation, including antitrust, mass torts, mergers and acquisitions, securities and other commercial disputes. His clients have included Alcoa, American Express, Barnes & Noble, Black Entertainment Television, Crown Castle, FleetCor Technologies, Goldman Sachs, IBM, Illumina, JPMorgan Chase, Meta Platforms, Occidental Petroleum, Palantir Technologies, PG&E, Robinhood, Sabre, Viacom, Viatris, The Williams Companies, Time Warner and Xerox.
Mr. Orsini successfully represented Robinhood as lead counsel in the sprawling “meme stock” litigation, which encompassed dozens of lawsuits, including numerous putative class actions, involving antitrust, negligence, contract, securities and various other state and federal claims—securing a series of victories to dismiss or otherwise resolve all claims against the company, including arguing and winning back-to-back Eleventh Circuit appeals in two actions and defeating class certification in the third.
Mr. Orsini recently represented The Williams Companies as lead trial and appellate counsel in M&A litigation against Energy Transfer (ETE), ultimately securing a judgment totaling more than $600 million. At trial, he cross-examined the founder and chairman of ETE, along with several other senior executives. He also represented M6 Midstream, a leading independent midstream energy company, in a property and antitrust dispute concerning a series of proposed natural gas pipeline installations in Louisiana, securing a settlement in June 2024 just months before trial. And he secured the dismissal of all claims against Meta in putative class action and individual antitrust litigation filed throughout the country related to the multi-billion-dollar digital advertising industry.
Mr. Orsini previously represented PG&E as lead trial counsel in hundreds of lawsuits, including numerous putative class actions, filed against the company 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—and helped to steer the company through the largest utility bankruptcy in U.S. history. He continues to represent the company in litigation related to the California wildfires between 2019 and 2021. He also represents Xcel Energy as lead trial counsel in numerous lawsuits filed against Xcel arising from the December 2021 Marshall Wildfire, as well as in multiple actions concerning the February 2024 Texas Panhandle wildfires, which included the Smokehouse Creek Fire.
Updated Oct 2024
