Marjorie E. Sheldon

She has extensive experience representing issuers, directors and officers, and board committees in connection with securities fraud suits and regulatory and internal investigations. Her diverse litigation practice has also included false advertising, trademark, trade secret and counterfeiting cases, bankruptcy litigation, insurance coverage disputes, employment and labor litigation, real estate litigation, partnership disputes, and complex commercial contract disputes of all shapes and sizes on behalf of both individuals and corporations. In addition to her litigation practice, she is also E-Discovery Counsel in the New York office.

She has represented companies in a range of industries, including pharmaceuticals and consumer products, biotechnology, petrochemicals, finance and investment banking, real estate development, fashion, and technology, at trial and on appeal as well as in arbitrations and mediations.

Marjorie’s notable recent matters include representing a small petrochemical company in a successful ICC arbitration concerning a site services agreement; representing a leading biotechnology company in a federal court action against a major pharmaceutical corporation concerning a collaboration agreement to commercialize a migraine drug; representing a major financial services company and its CEO and CFO in a securities fraud suit arising out of a terminated merger; representing the general counsel of a multibillion-dollar global company in an SEC lawsuit in federal court in the District of Columbia, alleging failure to timely disclose a loss contingency under securities laws; representing the co-owner/founder of a major privately held corporation in a bench trial in Delaware Chancery Court, and in related lawsuits in New York State court, arising out of disputes between the co-owners of the business. She has also submitted amicus briefs to the U.S. Supreme Court in multiple pro matters concerning a range of constitutional issues.  

Marjorie has served on the firm's Women’s Initiative Committee as well as the Women in the Profession Committee of the New York City Bar Association, including the Subcommittee on Women and Leadership. She is also a member of the Sedona Conference and its working group on Electronic Document Retention and Production.