Maaren A. Shah

Maaren A. Shah is a Founding Co-Chair of the firm’s Art Litigation and Disputes Practice and Co-Chair of the firm’s Insurance Practice. She has extensive experience handling crisis situations and complex commercial disputes, with a focus on the corporate and financial sectors, and the arts, fashion, design and entertainment sectors. As a seasoned trial lawyer, she has represented clients in trials and appeals in many state and federal trial and appellate courts, as well as in arbitration hearings, and has argued frequently in the Second, Third, and Fifth federal appellate circuits and New York’s First Department, Appellate Division. She frequently provides strategic advice to long-standing clients across a variety of business lines and strategic goals, including for high-net worth individuals, artists’ studios, fashion houses, foundations and institutions, and galleries, and often advises her clients on pre-litigation risk mitigation and on litigation-driven investment and business strategies. She also leads the firm’s premier arts practice representing and advising clients including the Andy Warhol Foundation, Richard Prince, the Robert Indiana Legacy Foundation, LVMH, Marc Jacobs, Chanel, and Elite Models, in arts, brand, media and entertainment business matters and disputes.

She has been recognized by the Lawdragon 500 as a Leading Litigator in America (2024-2025), ranked by Chambers USA in Litigation: General Commercial as an Up and Coming attorney (2024) and Leading Global Litigator (2021, 2023, 2024), as well as by The Best Lawyers in America for Art Law (2020, 2021) and the Lawdragon 500 as a Leading Litigator in Complex Commercial Litigation, including Art (2023). She has also been selected to the Lawdragon 500 Leading Plaintiff Financial Lawyers Guide (2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024), identified as a “Next Generation Partner” for General Commercial Disputes by Legal 500 (2022), and named by Benchmark Litigation as a Future Star (2023). In energy disputes, she was named a Leading Energy Lawyer for Energy Litigation by Lawdragon 500 (2023), and as a “Rising Star” in Energy by Law360 (2018), and she has also been honored as an MVP in Insurance by Law360 (2022). She has twice been recognized as a “Litigator of the Week” by The American Lawyer (2019 and 2022) for notable victories in high-profile and complex art and insurance disputes, and was repeatedly listed on Benchmark Litigation's “Under 40 Hot List” (2016, 2018, 2019).

She graduated with distinction from Stanford Law School and clerked for the Honorable Robert D. Sack on the Second Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals. She also presently serves as a visiting faculty member and a member of the Board of Visitors at Stanford Law School.