Nina Kovalenko

Nina Kovalenko is a partner in the Paul, Weiss Litigation Department. Nina specializes in complex civil litigation and trial practice across a range of substantive areas, including matters involving antitrust allegations, M&A and deal-related disputes, commercial disputes, bankruptcy litigation and ERISA and fiduciary duty litigation. Nina has represented multinational corporations, major financial institutions, private equity funds and individual executives in federal and state courts across the country, as well as in appeals and arbitration matters.

Nina maintains a multifaceted practice with a particular emphasis on handling the most procedurally complex litigations, including multidistrict litigations and other matters spanning multiple federal and state courts. She also has experience representing clients in high-stakes commercial disputes, antitrust and securities class actions and state attorneys general actions. Nina’s clients have spanned the technology, private equity, financial services, telecommunications, real estate and pharmaceuticals industries.

• Mastercard Incorporated in complex multidistrict litigation involving millions of U.S. merchants and multiple actions challenging the “interchange” fees associated with payment card transactions, as well as certain network rules governing merchants’ acceptance of payment cards.
  
  
• DST Systems, a subsidiary of leading financial services software provider SS&C Technologies, in the global settlement of highly complex ERISA matters nationally, involving a mandatory class action, a government enforcement action by the Department of Labor and hundreds of individual actions, both in federal court and in over 500 arbitrations, brought by current and former DST employees alleging breaches of fiduciary duty and other ERISA violations related to the management of DST’s 401(k) Profit Sharing Plan.
  
  
• Oak Hill Capital Partners and individual directors of Oversee.net at trial in the Delaware Court of Chancery over Oak Hill’s redemption of preferred equity, resulting in dismissal of all claims. The court found that defendants proved at trial that their conduct was entirely fair under Delaware’s most exacting standard of review—an exceedingly rare outcome.
  
  
• A group of investment funds that hold notes issued by JUUL Labs as trial counsel in an action brought in the Delaware Court of Chancery in connection with the attempted conversion of the notes.

• Appellate
• Arbitration
• Bankruptcy
• Class action
• Commercial and transactions
• Commercial disputes
• Competition/antitrust
• Insolvency
• Labor and employment
• Plaintiff
• Private client
• Securities

• J.D. - Harvard Law School
• B.A. - Indiana University

• District of Columbia
• New York