A partner in the Litigation Department, Susanna serves as co-chair of the Securities Litigation and Enforcement Group. The Group has been named Securities Litigation Department of the Year by The American Lawyer, The New York Law Journal, Benchmark Litigation, Law360 and U.S. News and World Report.
Susanna has extensive experience handling a broad range of matters, with particular emphasis defending financial institutions and corporations in complex securities and commercial matters in federal and state courts across the country. She also regularly represents clients before the Securities and Exchange Commission, the Department of Justice and numerous other federal and state regulatory authorities.
Susanna has been recognized by numerous publications and directories. She is a three-time Law360 Banking MVP (2018, 2020, 2022), was recognized by Law360 in 2016 as one of “The 25 Most Influential Women in Securities Law,” and was selected to Law360’s 2010 list of 10 Securities Lawyers Under 50 to watch. In 2019, Susanna was named to Crain’s Notable Women in Law, which celebrates talented female attorneys in the New York City metropolitan area. In 2018, she was recognized by Lawdragon in its list of 31 “Legends” and has been included in its list of “500 Leading Lawyers” for over a decade. Susanna is ranked in Band 1 by Chambers USA in the Litigation: Securities (NY) category and by Legal 500 US as a “Leading Lawyer” in the Securities Litigation: Defense and Financial Services Litigation categories. She is also ranked by Benchmark Litigation as a “National Practice Area Star” and “Local Litigation Star (NY),” and, since 2017, has been included in the publication’s list of Top 250 Women in Litigation.
Susanna served as articles editor of the Columbia Law Review and was a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar. She is an adjunct lecturer in law at Columbia Law School and currently teaches a course in trial practice. She held clerkships in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit and in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.
Updated July 2024
