Overview
Elizabeth is a Senior Associate in Linklaters’ U.S. Dispute Resolution Practice.
Elizabeth’s practice focuses on complex commercial litigation, internal investigations, and cross-border government enforcement actions. She has extensive experience representing clients in investigations and actions by federal and local regulators and law enforcement agencies, as well as foreign regulators. She also regularly advises companies and financial institutions on compliance with U.S. securities, antitrust, ESG, and other regulatory regimes, helping them to understand and manage U.S. risk across multiple jurisdictions. She has deep experience with foreign evidence-gathering regimes, including actions under 28 U.S.C. § 1782.
Experience
Recent matters including representing:
- Allstate Insurance Company and affiliates as lead defense counsel in major data breach and deceptive trade practice action filed by the New York Attorney General’s Office;
- National General Insurance Company and affiliates as lead defense counsel in FIRREA litigation filed by the DOJ;
- Lead defense and trial counsel to CFO of a financial institution in SEC securities and accounting fraud case;
- Lead defense and trial counsel to CIO of Mylan Pharmaceuticals in DOJ and SEC insider trading case, winning nearly unprecedented dismissal of both actions right before trial;
- Co-lead trial counsel to Exactech, Inc. in False Claims Act suit filed in Alabama federal court;
- Sibanye-Stillwater as trial counsel, winning a Delaware shareholder appraisal trial following the acquisition of Stillwater Mining Company;
- Sibanye-Stillwater in winning complete dismissal of a federal securities class action;
- Air France, KLM, and Martinair in an antitrust civil class action and opt-out litigation concerning the air cargo business; - A multinational corporation in an industry-wide DOJ False Claims Act investigation into government contracts;
- Multiple corporate clients in proceedings under 28 U.S.C. § 1782.
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