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Litigation Star

National Practice Area Star


Practice area:

Securities


Pete Kazanoff is widely recognized as a leading M&A and securities litigator, including by Euromoney’s Benchmark Litigation, Chambers USA, and The Legal 500. He has over 28 years of experience representing leading private equity and corporate clients in high-profile transaction-related disputes and regularly represents issuers, individuals and underwriters in securities litigations in courts throughout the country. He has deep experience defending clients against claims arising out of financial frauds, including the largest Ponzi schemes in history.

Pete is described by Chambers USA as a “superb lawyer” who has a “deep knowledge of securities litigation” and “can look you in the eye and tell you what he means, no games. His clients are well prepared, which leads to fantastic results.” He is also recognized by Euromoney’s Benchmark Litigation as a National and New York “Litigation Star” in Securities Litigation and by The Legal 500 in the “Hall of Fame” for M&A Litigation: Defense.

 

Updated Oct 2025

  • Dollar General and its senior officers in federal securities litigation.

  • KKR, its founders, and its senior officers in shareholder derivative litigation challenging a corporate reorganization.

  • Dollar General and its Board of Directors and senior officers in dismissal of shareholder derivative litigation.

  • TD Bank in litigation following the collapse of Stanford Financial.

  • KKR in shareholder actions challenging multibillion-dollar transactions, including acquisitions of Envision Healthcare, PharMerica, KFN, Gardner Denver, Del Monte, TXU, HCA, Dollar General and Laureate Education.

  • Class action
  • Commercial disputes
  • Dispute resolution
  • Securities
  • M&A Litigation

  • Consumer goods and services
  • Financial services
  • Healthcare

  • J.D. cum laude - University of Chicago Law School  - 1997
  • A.B. magna cum laude, Economics and Government - Bowdoin College - 1992

  • American Bar Association    
  • New York State Bar Association    
  • City of New York Bar Association

  • U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit - 2016
  • U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit - 2010
  • U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit - 2001
  • U.S. District Court for the Western District of New York - 2000
  • New York - 1998
  • U.S. District Court Eastern District of New York - 1998
  • U.S. District Court Southern District of New York - 1998