Kessler Topaz Meltzer & Check, LLP

Securities Fraud Litigation; Global Securities Litigation; Arbitration, Portfolio Monitoring and Claims Filing Services (SecuritiesTracker™), Corporate Governance Litigation

Partner

Ms. Christiansen focuses her practice on securities litigation and non-U.S. actions in particular.  Ms. Christiansen devotes her time to advising clients on the challenges and benefits of pursuing particular litigation opportunities in jurisdictions outside the U.S.  In those non-US actions where Kessler Topaz is actively involved, Ms. Christiansen liaises with local counsel, helps develop case strategy, reviews pleadings, and helps clients understand and successfully navigate the legal process.  Her experience includes non-US opt-in actions, international law, and portfolio monitoring and claims administration.

Ms. Christiansen received her Juris Doctor and Global Law certificate, cum laude, from Lewis and Clark Law School in 2012 and is a graduate of the University of Portland, where she received her Bachelor of Arts, cum laude, in Political Science and German Studies.  During law school Ms. Christiansen worked as a law clerk at a law firm specializing in ERISA benefits litigation.  She also interned in Trial Chambers III at the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (and while there was involved with the trial of the former Bosnian Serb President, Radovan Karadzic) and spent two months in India as a foreign legal trainee with the corporate law firm of Fox Mandal.  Ms. Christiansen is a 2007 recipient of a Fulbright Fellowship and is fluent in German.

English; German

Ms. Christiansen is licensed to practice in New York and Pennsylvania.

University of Portland, B.A. 2007, cum laude; Lewis and Clark Law School, J.D. 2012, cum laude