Overview
Aviva is a senior associate in the Linklaters Litigation, Arbitration & Investigations group in New York. Her practice focuses on complex commercial litigation, internal investigations, white collar defense, and cross-border regulatory matters. Aviva represents global companies, financial institutions, and senior executives in high-stakes disputes and investigations involving significant legal, operational, and reputational risk.
Aviva is a trial lawyer who has played key roles in multiple recent trials and evidentiary proceedings. Most recently, she helped lead a high-profile arbitration arising from a more than $500 million investment in a leading technology company, where she managed the trial team, coordinated fact and expert discovery, oversaw document review and production, directed pre-hearing strategy and motion practice, and managed the day-to-day execution of the matter through hearing.
Known for her ability to manage large and multifaceted matters with precision, Aviva ensures that legal, factual, and strategic elements remain aligned and executed to the highest standard. Her experience spans all phases of litigation and investigations, including internal investigations, witness preparation, deposition strategy, dispositive briefing, expert workstreams, trial preparation, and hearing management.
Her representative matters have included DOJ and SEC investigations, False Claims Act matters, securities litigation, trade secrets disputes, and complex commercial cases involving multinational parties and cross-border issues. She also previously served as a secondee to Digital Realty, one of the world’s largest data center owners and operators, where she worked closely with the General Counsel and Global Head of Litigation on a range of litigation and regulatory matters.
Experience
- A major investment fund: managing a complex, high-stakes trial arising from a US$500m investment dispute involving a leading technology company.
- CytoDyn CEO: lead defense and trial counsel for former CEO, winning acquittal on lead conspiracy and fraud charges.
- Sovereign nation-state: representing sovereign nation in high-profile U.S. litigation arising from decades-old commercial allegations, including successfully setting aside a default judgment as void under the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act and defeating asserted jurisdictional theories, as well as advising in related enforcement and sovereign litigation proceedings in Maryland and the District of Columbia.
- Global publicly traded company: advising in a DOJ FCPA and multijurisdictional bribery investigation.
- Numerous multinational corporations: advising in DOJ False Claims Act investigations into government contracts.
- Senior corporate executives: advising in numerous DOJ FCPA and AML investigations.
- Global mining company: advising in federal securities class action.
- Global electronics manufacturer: advising in trade secrets lawsuit.
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