Andrew Dunlap > Selendy Gay PLLC > New York, United States > Lawyer Profile
Selendy Gay PLLC Offices
1290 AVENUE OF THE AMERICAS
NEW YORK, NY 10104
NEW YORK
United States
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Andrew Dunlap
Work Department
Securities & Structured Finance
Position
Partner
Career
Andrew R. Dunlap is a founding partner of Selendy Gay.
Andrew is an experienced trial and appellate litigator who has been named a leading securities litigator by The Legal 500 and is ranked among the nation’s “Leading Plaintiff Financial Lawyers” by Lawdragon.
He has successfully represented clients in securities, contract, healthcare, antitrust, mass tort, RICO, ERISA, and constitutional matters, among others. Andrew was a key member of the team that represented the Federal Housing Finance Agency, as conservator for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, in recovering $25 billion from the world’s leading banks over the sale of residential mortgage-backed securities (RMBS), including the trial team that obtained an $800 million judgment from Nomura and RBS. In that litigation, Andrew obtained a summary judgment decision that banks did not act with reasonable care in creating the RMBS they sold to investors during the run-up to the financial crisis.
In his public interest practice, Andrew successfully defended New York City charter schools against suits challenging their ability to co-locate in Department of Education school buildings and demanding they pay rent to the DOE, obtaining denials of preliminary injunctions in both instances. Andrew also successfully defended a consent decree governing the delivery of medical services to Medicaid-eligible children in Tennessee in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit.
Andrew earned his J.D., magna cum laude, from Georgetown Law School, where he published a note in the Georgetown Law Journal and was an editor of the American Criminal Law Review. He serves on the board of the National Center for Law and Economic Justice and is a barrister of the American Inn of Court.
Education
Georgetown University Law Center (J.D., 2002)
Magna cum laude, Order of the Coif, Dean’s List
Johns Hopkins University (M.A., History, 1995)
Johns Hopkins University (B.A., History, 1994)
Lawyer Rankings
United States > Dispute resolution > Securities litigation: plaintiff
Litigation boutique Selendy Gay PLLC in New York acts for both plaintiffs and defendants in securities litigation, drawing on the experience of practice heads Philippe Selendy
and Sean Baldwin, who built their reputations in matters concerning complex financial products including mortgage-backed securities. Together, they recently achieved an $855m settlement for Cerberus Capital Management in a breach of contract action against Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce concerning the bank’s failure to pay back an investment in US housing-related assets. The firm is also making its presence felt in emerging areas of securities litigation, notably cryptocurrency cases. Selendy is representing plaintiffs in a putative class action based on the purported stablecoin USDT, claiming that investors bought into the market at a time when the price of the assets had been artificially inflated by defendants. Key partner Andrew Dunlap played a key role in that case. Also notable is Jordan Goldstein, who is leading 12 proposed class actions on behalf of investors who traded on multiple digital exchanges including Binance, which allegedly offered and sold billions of dollars of unregistered digital tokens.