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Shannon Rose Selden is a litigation partner and member of the firm’s Commercial Litigation, Asset Management and Private Equity groups. Ms. Selden has a broad practice with a particular focus on the investment management industry. She represents hedge fund and private equity clients as plaintiffs and defendants in complex, high-stakes litigation of all kinds, including securities, contract, corporate governance, fiduciary, financing, and debt restructuring disputes. Ms. Selden has significant experience as lead counsel in state and federal courts and in advising on contested commercial matters. She is recommended by The Legal 500 US (2017) – previous editions of the guide report that her advice to clients is “strategic, tailored, insightful and not overly conservative” – and is recognized as a Law360 “MVP” for Asset Management (2016) and a “Litigation Star” and as one of the “Top 250 Women in Litigation” by Benchmark Litigation (2017).
Ms. Selden joined the firm in 2001 and became a partner in 2011. From January 2003 to January 2004, she clerked for the Hon. Denise Cote, United States District Court for the Southern District of New York. Ms. Selden received her J.D. from Yale Law School in 2001. At Yale, she was the Co-Editor-in-Chief of the Yale Journal of Law & the Humanities and a director of the Morris Tyler Moot Court Competition. She received a B.A. summa cum laude from Amherst College in 1998, where she was a member of Phi Beta Kappa and winner of the Densmore Barry Collins Prize in Political Science.
In 2004 and 2005, Ms. Selden was an Assistant Professor of Law at the University of Toledo, where she taught Constitutional Law, Civil Procedure, and Criminal Law. Her research focused on securities law, in particular, on interdisciplinary analysis of the adequacy of laws designed to prevent and prosecute malfeasance in the financial markets.
Ms. Selden is admitted to appear before the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, the U.S. Courts of Appeals for the Second, Fifth and Eighth Circuits, and the United States Supreme Court. She has served as a member of the Federal Practice Task Force of the American Bar Association Section of Litigation, and as Co-Chair of the Section’s 2010 Annual Conference, and as a member of the Book Publishing Board of the ABA Section of Litigation. Ms. Selden is a member of the Board of Directors of the National Center for Law and Economic Justice. Ms. Selden was featured in a documentary on the New York Times website, “Great Expectations for Female Lawyers” (2013), a follow-up from a 2001 New York Times Magazine article in which 21 women lawyers at Debevoise were profiled and interviewed about the career prospects for women in law firms.
Last Updated July 2018
