Dana E. Sherman is a litigation associate in the New York office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher. Her practice focuses on high-stakes securities and commercial disputes involving complex financial concepts. Dana represents public and private companies and their officers and directors in stockholder class actions and stockholder derivative actions, as well as related litigation in state and federal courts throughout the country.
Recent representative matters include:
- Represented four members of the board of directors of Aerojet Rocketdyne Holdings in an expedited trial before the Delaware Court of Chancery arising from a proxy contest initiated by the company’s executive chairman. Gibson Dunn’s clients prevailed in the proxy contest after the court issued its post-trial opinion.
- Represented the Nasdaq Stock Market in securing complete dismissal on summary judgment of putative securities class action concerning high-frequency trading.
- Defending Energy Transfer, a Fortune 100 owner-operator of diversified energy assets, in multiple securities class actions arising from pipeline projects in Pennsylvania and Ohio. Secured summary judgment ruling substantially narrowing the claims that could be litigated in one action and reducing potential damages exposure by over 90%, resulting in a highly favorable settlement.
- Represented Coupang, Inc. in securing favorable pre-trial settlement for global e-commerce company in share ownership dispute filed by former employee in the Delaware Court of Chancery.
- Represented Rio Tinto Group in securities enforcement action concerning multi-billion-dollar investment in Mozambique.
- Represented Empire Merchants, LLC in connection with civil RICO lawsuit against Maryland liquor distributor and related advancement litigation in state and federal courts.
- Trial counsel to plaintiff in federal civil rights action concerning excessive force allegations.
She also maintains an active pro bono practice. In partnership with Legal Services NYC and Immigration Equality, she represents LGBT persons seeking asylum and other forms of immigration relief from U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services and Immigration Courts. She has also represented civil rights claims to a federal jury.
She earned her Juris Doctor degree from Columbia Law School in 2016, where she was named a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar and served as a Managing Editor of the Columbia Human Rights Law Review. While in law school, Dana served as a judicial extern to then-Chief Judge Robert Katzmann of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and an extern in the Civil Division of the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York.
Dana is admitted to practice in the State of New York as well as the United States District Courts for the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York.
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Credentials
Education:
- Columbia University - 2016 Juris Doctor
- Washington University in St. Louis - 2012 Bachelor of Arts
Admissions:
- New York Bar