Meredith Kotler is co-head of our Securities & Shareholder Litigation group. She specializes in high-stakes litigation, including securities, M&A, and shareholder disputes. She represents multi-national companies, financial institutions, and their boards and management in significant securities class actions and shareholder derivative matters, having secured important dismissals in both federal and state courts. As major M&A transactions and board-level controversies continue to receive scrutiny, Meredith has defended companies, their management and boards, and their financial advisors in litigation relating to dozens of transactions with a cumulative value of over $175 billion in the last five years alone. She has played a leading role in many matters raising novel corporate governance issues, including the corporate control battle between National Amusements, Inc. and CBS Corporation, for which she was named “Litigator of the Week” by The American Lawyer.
From 1998 to 2004, Meredith served as an Assistant US Attorney in the Southern District of New York, including as Deputy Chief Appellate Attorney. She often speaks on shareholder litigation panels, and her writings on the latest developments in Delaware courts and securities litigation have been published in the Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance and other outlets. Meredith sits on the Boards of Advisors for the University of Pennsylvania Law School’s Institute of Law and Economics, and for NYU Law’s Institute for Corporate Governance & Finance. She has also been appointed to the US Second Circuit Court of Appeals’ Pro Bono Counsel list, to serve as counsel for pro se parties where the court appoints counsel in civil appeals.
Meredith has long been recognized as a leading securities litigator by Benchmark Litigation as a “Litigation Star”, “National Practice Area Star” for Securities Litigation and one of the “Top 250 Women in Litigation”; Chambers USA (Band 1 for Litigation: Securities); Legal 500 in its “Hall of Fame” and as a “Leading Partner” for securities and M&A litigation; as well as a “Leading Litigator in America” by Lawdragon.
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