Dentons, the world’s largest law firm, announced today that prominent financial industry litigator Douglas W. Henkin joined its Litigation and Dispute Resolution practice as a partner. Henkin’s national litigation practice includes trial, arbitration, regulatory and appellate work on federal and state court securities and complex commercial litigation. He will be resident in the Firm’s New York office.
Henkin focuses on complex cross border litigation including securities and mass tort litigation involving contemporaneous disputes in the courts of the US, Canada and England. He is highly skilled in disputes involving technology, sophisticated financial instruments and cybersecurity, including data encryption, data protection and privacy. Among his more notable courtroom achievements are his ongoing representation of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in numerous matters, and his defense of a former CEO of a Canadian oil company in cross border class action and regulatory proceedings.
“Doug is an impressive lawyer whose exceptional expertise and talents tightly integrate with our New York and global financial services litigation teams,” said US CEO Mike McNamara. “His demonstrated success in high stakes financial and insurance litigation is a complement to our robust financial services capabilities, and Doug will be a terrific asset for our clients.”
Adept at navigating high-profile litigation, Henkin represented NYSE options markets and others in securing dismissal of claims by dealers that they improperly charged payment for order flow fees. He authored amicus briefs for the NYSE in class action litigation against another exchange regarding the initial public offering of a popular social media platform and represented NYSE markets in challenges to the pricing of their market data fees.
Before entering private practice, Henkin was a judicial clerk with the US Court of Appeals, Tenth Circuit. He holds a JD, cum laude, from the University of Pennsylvania Law School, where he was editor of the University of Pennsylvania Law Review, and an SB from Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Source: www.dentons.com
