Two New York Partners Named to Crain’s Notable Litigators & Trial Attorneys List
Blair Connelly and Chris Harris recognized by Crain’s New York Business as outstanding litigators contributing to New York's legal landscape.
Blair Connelly is Global Vice Chair of the Securities Litigation & Professional Liability Practice and former Co-Chair of the Litigation Department in the New York office. He focuses his practice on M&A litigation, securities lawsuits, and corporate governance disputes.
Blair has represented directors, officers, boards, committees, corporations, financial institutions, and individuals in numerous high-profile merger and takeover litigations, securities class actions, derivative lawsuits, and complex internal investigations. He has successfully litigated some of the largest stockholder lawsuits involving mergers and acquisitions and other corporate governance issues. Blair has argued and won precedent-setting decisions in the Delaware Court of Chancery, the Delaware Supreme Court, and other jurisdictions on cutting-edge issues of corporate law. He also leverages his expertise to advise clients as deals are being put together to avoid litigation pitfalls.
Blair is widely recognized as a premier legal practitioner in securities and M&A litigation. He is recognized by The Legal 500 as a Leading Lawyer in M&A Litigation: Defense, ranked by Chambers in Litigation: Securities, and was named a Litigation Star by Benchmark Litigation. The American Lawyer frequently recognizes Blair in its Litigators of the Week column for his repeated successes representing clients in their most high-stakes matters. He regularly provides market leadership, recently discussing the state of Delaware’s exacting entire fairness standard and corporate litigation trends with The American Lawyer and Bloomberg Law. He has authored articles for Bloomberg Law exploring securities litigation trends during Covid-19, as well as Thomson Reuters Westlaw discussing recent Delaware Supreme Court decisions.
Blair has served on the firm’s Finance Committee, Associates Committee, Paralegal Administration Committee, and its Training and Career Enhancement (TACE) Committee, where he ran the firm’s Deposition and Trial Advocacy training programs.
Blair's experience includes representing:
Blair Connelly and Chris Harris recognized by Crain’s New York Business as outstanding litigators contributing to New York's legal landscape.
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