Quinn Emanuel Trial Lawyers
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Faith E. Gay
New York Office Tel: 212-849-7000 Fax: 212-849-7100 faithgay@quinnemanuel.com Practice Areas Appellate Practice Domestic and International Arbitration & Mediation Intellectual Property Litigation Securities Litigation White Collar Defense and Internal Investigations Education
Northwestern University School of Law (J.D., 1986)
Duke University (B.A., Public Policy Studies, with Honors, 1982) Angier B. Duke Scholar |
Biography
Faith E. Gay is Co-Chair of the Firm's White Collar and Corporate Investigations Practice Group. She has been repeatedly recognized as one of the leading trial and appellate lawyers in the United States by Chambers USA, Best Lawyers in America, Super Lawyers and Florida Trend, among other publications. Prior to entering private practice, she was Deputy Chief of the Special Prosecutions Unit and the Civil Rights Division while serving as an Assistant U.S. Attorney in the Eastern District of New York. She also twice earned the Director's Award for Special Achievement in Trial Litigation from the United States Department of Justice.
Ms. Gay has broad courtroom experience with more than 25 federal trials and 30 appellate arguments to her credit. Her practice is equally divided between white collar/corporate governance matters and complex civil litigation. In the white collar arena, she has represented corporations and individuals in investigations by the SEC, DOJ, and the attorneys general of New York and Florida, among other investigative entities. Ms. Gay's SEC/FINRA experience includes OFAC and FCPA compliance and investigations; reporting and accounting issues involving registration, exemptions, proxy statements, private offerings, and related books and records requirements; options backdating; investment-related distribution and advertising issues; and customer/employee arbitrations. She has also led internal investigations at the request of corporations, boards of directors, and special committees. No corporation or individual that Ms. Gay has represented while under investigation has ever been indicted.
Ms. Gay's principal current clients in civil trial and appellate matters include Coca-Cola, Colgate, Morgan Stanley, Home Depot, Motorola, Choicepoint, LexisNexis, General Electric, and AIG. In recent years, Ms. Gay's civil matters - in which she has an undefeated record at trial - have focused in the areas of securities fraud, complex contractual and financing disputes, intellectual property and Alien Tort Statute claims.
Ms. Gay has also devoted significant time and energy to pro bono litigation. By way of example, she successfully defended a constitutional amendment establishing a state minimum wage before the Florida Supreme Court. She has also successfully represented voter registration groups targeted by law enforcement. More generally, she has handled numerous criminal, immigration and housing court matters on a pro bono basis during her 20+ year career. Notable Representations
Representing Cola-Cola in multiple Alien Tort Statute claims.
Representing Nuance in multiple intellectual property disputes.
Representing Colgate in false advertising claims.
Representing Choicepoint and LexisNexis in numerous defamation and false light cases. |
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