Luke Nikas has joined the firm as a partner based in the New York office. Mr. Nikas was previously a partner at Boies Schiller Flexner LLP. He is a commercial litigator with extensive experience and success representing clients in complex disputes across leading industries, including banking, insurance, art, real estate, pharmaceuticals, and health care. He has represented clients including Fortune 100 companies; large private companies and executive-ranks; prominent art foundations, collectors and galleries; and Pulitzer Prize-winning journalists. Recently, Mr. Nikas was named to Lawdragon’s 2017 list of the “500 Leading Lawyers in America” and Benchmark Litigation’s “Under 40 Hot List.” A prominent art publication called him one of the most “highly influential” art lawyers in the world after he led the defense in a forgery case dubbed by ArtNews as “The Art Trial of the Century.”