Litigation boutique Boies Schiller Flexner LLP fields a team of ‘thoughtful, creative, hard-working lawyers’ who handle the full range of complex commercial disputes, including securities class actions, insurance litigation, and financial services disputes. In Washington DC, Kenya Davis comes highly recommended as ’an excellent trial lawyer and a thoughtful colleague’, while Hamish Hume is praised as ‘an intellectual powerhouse and formidable courtroom lawyer’. Government investigations expert Matthew Schwartz and financial services litigation specialist Marc Ayala are key contacts in New York, while former prosecutor John Kucera is a primary contact in Los Angeles. In San Francisco, Max Pritt and Mark Mao handle a wide range of antitrust and IP cases. Key contacts in Fort Lauderdale include Stuart Singer, who represents clients in antitrust and securities litigation, and Sigrid McCawley, who handles a wide array of commercial disputes.
Testimonials
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- 'Kenya Davis is an excellent trial lawyer and a thoughtful colleague.'
- 'Sam Kaplan is a thoughtful strategist.'
- 'Hamish Hume is an intellectual powerhouse and formidable courtroom lawyer.'
- 'Thoughtful, creative, hard-working lawyers.'
Key clients
- Class of BCBS Subscribers
- Class of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac Shareholders
- Class of Google Subscribers
- Walmart, Inc.
- Hertz Corp.
- Lens.com
- Florida Power & Light
- Class of Google mobile app users
- West Flagler Associates Ltd.
- Percipient.ai Inc.
- Blenheim Capital Holdings
- Pennsylvania General Insurance Company
- Greenberg Traurig
- LoanCare LLC
- Class suing Takata
- VillaSport and Syufy Enterprises LP
- United HealthCare Insurance Co.
- W&K Defense Research, LLC
- Former Olympic Snowboarders
- BTA Bank JSC
- Victims of Jeffrey Epstein
- Ad Hoc Group of 2016 Term Loan Lenders
- National Class of Student Loan Debtors
- Entravision Communications Corporation
- Red Granite Pictures, Inc.
- David Cassirer
- Michael Hewitt
- Petroleum Independent & Exploration LLC
- Five Sterling LP
- The Sterling Mulacek Trust,
Work highlights
- Represented clients in a $2.7bn settlement against the Blue Cross and Blue Shield health plans.
- Acted for a class of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac shareholders in a challenge to a 2012 agreement, known as the “net worth sweep,” between the Federal Housing Finance Agency and the U.S. Treasury, winning a judgement of $612.4m.
- Acted for victims of Jeffery Epstein in a case accusing Deutsche Bank and J.P. Morgan Chase of financially aiding Epstein’s sex-trafficking scheme, winning a $365m settlement.
Lawyers
Practice head
The lawyer(s) leading their teams.
Matthew Schwartz, Marc Ayala, Sigrid McCawley, Stuart Singer, Hamish Hume, Kenya Davis, Max Pritt, Mark Mao, John Kucera