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John Friel
Position
John Friel is a partner in Clifford Chance’s Litigation and Dispute Resolution practice, based in New York. John represents corporate and financial institution clients in complex litigation and government enforcement actions. His practice focuses on antitrust, securities, and derivatives matters, both criminal and civil, and he has particular expertise in cross-border matters.
John represents clients before a number of US agencies, including the Department of Justice, Federal Trade Commission, Securities and Exchange Commission, and Commodity Futures Trading Commission, as well as numerous enforcement agencies around the world.
Education
Temple University (BA) 2004
Villanova University School of Law (JD) 2009
University College London (LLM) 2010
Joined Clifford Chance 2010
Admitted as an Attorney-at-Law in New York 2011
Partner since 2020
Lawyer Rankings
United States > Dispute resolution > Securities litigation: defense
The New York office of Clifford Chance has a small but active group of securities litigators led by the head of the US litigation practice Robert Houck. Experienced in complex cross-border securities and commercial litigation, including class actions and investigations, Houck frequently acts for large companies, underwriters, corporate officers, and outside directors in class actions. His recent work includes the successful defense of ICBC Standard Bank in a class action alleging manipulation of platinum and palladium benchmarks in London. All claims were dismissed. On that matter, Houck worked closely with John Friel, who focuses on securities, derivatives, and antitrust matters, and senior counsel David Yeres. Partner Anthony Candido is also active in federal and state courts at the trial and appellate level, and he recently worked with Houck to advise a major US financial institution on SEC and DOJ investigations, which also involved key team members in the firm’s Washington DC office.
Lawyer Rankings
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Transport > Aviation and air travel: finance
- Tax > Financial products
- Energy > Energy transactions: oil and gas
- Finance > Capital markets: global offerings
- Finance > Project finance
Firm Rankings
- Finance > Structured finance: derivatives and structured products
- Finance > Structured finance: securitization
- Finance > Capital markets: global offerings
- Finance > Capital markets: global offerings
- Finance > Fintech
- Tax > International tax
- Media, technology and telecoms > Outsourcing
- Real estate > Real estate investment trusts (REITs)
- Dispute resolution > Securities litigation: defense
- Finance > Capital markets: equity offerings
- Finance > Capital markets: high-yield debt offerings
- Finance > Capital markets: equity offerings
- Finance > Capital markets: debt offerings
- Finance > Capital markets: high-yield debt offerings
- International trade > Customs, export controls and economic sanctions
- Dispute resolution > International arbitration
- Antitrust > Merger control
- Investment fund formation and management > Private equity funds (including venture capital)
- Real estate > Real estate
- Energy > Renewable/alternative power
- Media, technology and telecoms > Technology transactions
- Tax > US taxes: non-contentious
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Private equity buyouts: large deals ($500m+)
- Finance > Restructuring (including bankruptcy): corporate
- M&A/corporate and commercial > M&A: large deals ($1bn+)