Akin is well-known in the market for its industry-specific expertise in disputes related to investment funds, hedge funds, and financial restructuring matters. The group’s recent caseload includes securities litigation, stockholder class actions, breach of contract claims, and APA litigation. New York’s Joseph Sorkin heads up the practice group and chiefly handles restructuring and bankruptcy litigation. In New York, Stephen Baldini is a key contact for private equity and hedge fund matters, as well as bankruptcy litigation and partnership/investor disputes. From the Dallas office, Scott Barnard‘s practice emphasizes business torts, fraud actions, commercial contract disputes, and real estate litigation.
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Key clients
- Green Thumb Industries, Inc.
- Apollo Investment Corporation
- Ardent Health Services, Inc.
- Tulane/SMU
- Vizio
- Talos Energy
- ZTE Corporation
- Mallinckrodt
- The Official Committee of Unsecured Creditors of Alex Jones
- Celsius
- Armistice Capital
- Eastman Kodak
- Armistice
Work highlights
- Represented Armistice in a high-stakes securities fraud class action involving Vaxart, Inc. a biotech firm seeking to develop oral vaccine technology, including an oral COVID-19 vaccine.
- Assisted Eastman Kodak Company with a successful motion to dismiss a purported direct stockholder class action with prejudice.
- Represented WMATA in a wrongful death lawsuit.
Practice head
The lawyer(s) leading their teams.
Joseph Sorkin