Overview
Nicole’s practice focuses on representing public companies and corporate executives in complex litigation and regulatory matters. Nicole is an experienced litigator and trial lawyer, and has litigated high-stakes disputes, including in the areas of contract law, antitrust and competition law, cybersecurity law, securities fraud, shareholder claims brought in connection with M&A transactions, and employment law. She also represents clients in investigations, including by the Department of Justice, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and state regulators. Nicole’s clients span a variety of sectors, including in the banking, insurance, technology, healthcare and life sciences, and mining industries.
Nicole has worked in Linklaters’ New York office since 2012.
In 2016, she spent six months on secondment with Linklaters’ London Financial Regulatory Group.
Experience
Recently Nicole has represented:
- Corebridge Financial in a number of data breach class actions centralized as a multidistrict litigation in Massachusetts federal court
- The CEO of a publicly-traded biotechnology company in an action brought by the Department of Justice alleging conspiracy, insider trading, securities fraud and wire fraud charges, and won acquittal on the most serious felony charge
- GLAS Trust Company in Delaware Chancery and New York state court proceedings concerning GLAS’s rights under a $1.2 billion loan agreement, which included a trial in Delaware Chancery and a subsequent ruling affirming GLAS’s actions taken under the loan agreement
- Sibanye-Stillwater as trial counsel, winning a Delaware shareholder appraisal trial, following Sibanye’s acquisition of Stillwater Mining Company, in Delaware Chancery with the Chancery decision affirmed by the Delaware Supreme Court
- Société Générale in antitrust and CEA class actions and opt-out litigation arising from allegations of manipulation of foreign exchange markets
- A significant Japanese financial institution in cross-jurisdictional regulatory proceedings
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