A partner in the Litigation Department, Audra J. Soloway represents clients on a broad variety of commercial litigation matters, specializing in complex securities litigation and regulatory defense. Ms. Soloway has expertise in matters involving federal and state regulatory inquiries, as well as civil litigation in multiple jurisdictions.

Significant representations include:

• a major financial institution in an SEC investigation relating to the marketing of hedge funds that suffered severe losses as a result of the credit crisis;
• a major financial institution in regulatory investigations and civil litigation relating to the adequacy of disclosures contained in the proxy statement provided to voting shareholders concerning the terms and conditions of its acquisition of another large financial institution;
• a Fortune 500 packaging company in a securities fraud class action relating to disclosures addressing the company’s potential liability for fraudulent transfer claims in connection with an earlier acquisition;
• a brokerage firm in a FINRA disciplinary proceeding relating to representations made to arbitration claimants concerning the preservation of electronic mail following a systemic disruption to the firm’s e-mail servers;
• the audit committee of a public company board of directors in an internal investigation of alleged misconduct by senior executives; and
• a major financial institution in a large group of matters arising out of research analyst reports relating to WorldCom and other telecommunications companies; the matters involved multiple multidistrict proceedings, class actions, and mass actions, and hundreds of individual actions.