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.

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  • 'Exceptional attorneys across the board.'

Key clients

  • Cerberus Capital Management
  • A proposed class of investors who purchased crypto commodities at artificially inflated prices.
  • Allianz Structured Alpha Mutual Funds Class Action
  • Funds and CLOs managed by Five Arrows Managers North America LLC, 400 Capital Management, Angel Island Capital Management LLC, Assured Investment Management LLC, Atalaya Capital Management LP, Bardin Hill Loan Management LLC, Benefit Street Partners LLC, DoubleLine Capital LP, Ellington CLO Management LLC, FS Credit Opportunities Corp., Mariner Investment Group, LLC, MJX Asset Management LLC, MJX Venture Management II LLC, and MJX Venture Management III LLC, NCC CLO Manager LLC, Palmer Square Capital Management LLC and Palmer Square BDC Advisor LLC, Saranac CLO Management, LLC, Steele Creek Investment Management LLC, and Wellfleet Credit Partners, LLC.
  • A proposed class of investors who traded on Binance
  • Crypto Asset Investors
  • Crypto Asset Investors

Work highlights

  • Represented Cerberus Capital Management, a leading private equity firm, in a breach of contract action against the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce (CIBC). In December 2022, Justice Cohen resolved all liability issues in Cerberus’s favor following a two-week bench trial against CIBC. After a subsequent damages hearing and related decision that rejected nearly all of CIBC’s damages arguments, the New York Supreme Court entered judgment for Cerberus for $855 million.
  • As co-lead counsel secured a $145 million settlement for mutual fund shareholders who purchased, sold, or liquidated mutual fund shares managed by Allianz Global Investors U.S. LLC’s Structured Property Groups from January 1, 2015-December 31, 2020.

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Practice head

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Philippe Selendy, Sean Baldwin

Other key lawyers

Andrew Dunlap, Jordan Goldstein