Marc Aaron Takagaki is an associate in the New York office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher. He is a member of the firm’s Litigation Department, where his practice centers on high-stakes commercial, securities, class action, and white-collar litigation across a wide range of industries, including finance, technology, and life sciences. He has successfully represented clients in securities, accounting, contract, trade secrets, and founder disputes, along with criminal and internal investigations.
Marc Aaron has significant motion practice, witness questioning, and civil discovery experience. He has conducted an evidentiary hearing in federal court, drafted dispositive motions in federal court, led appeals before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and the U.S. Supreme Court, and first-chaired fact and expert witness depositions. He also has experience with mediations and settlement negotiations.
Representative matters include:
- Representing Amazon.com in lawsuit concerning Key for Business service.
- Representing SolarEdge Technologies and its senior executives in securities class action for accounting fraud and financial reporting violations.
- Representing Electric Solidus Inc. d/b/a Swan Bitcoin in lawsuit concerning trade secrets and breach of contract related to cryptocurrency venture.
- Representing Welltower Inc. in lawsuit concerning investment in residential housing complexes.
- Representing Evan Greebel in criminal and civil matters.
- Representing financial institution in criminal and regulatory investigation.
- Representing accounting firm in regulatory investigation.
- Representing Sequential Brands Group, Inc. and its senior executives in securities class action for accounting fraud and financial reporting violations.
- Represented Esperion Therapeutics in pharmaceutical licensing dispute.
- Represented S&P Global in class action concerning antitrust violations.
- Represented Meta Platforms, Inc. in class action related to the aftermath of the widely reported Cambridge Analytica issues.
- Represented Solomon Levy in lawsuit involving breach of contract.
- Represented the University of Southern California in lawsuit related to Dr. George Tyndall.
- Represented Vale S.A. in multiple securities class actions concerning mining accidents in Brazil.
- Represented Rio Tinto Group in securities enforcement action concerning multi-billion-dollar investment in Mozambique.
- Represented life science company in pharmaceutical licensing dispute.
- Represented accounting firm in internal investigations.
- Represented cryptocurrency company during corporate formation.
- Represented casino in corporate governance dispute.
Marc Aaron further maintains an active pro bono practice. He is currently lead trial counsel in a federal civil rights action on behalf of an inmate in New York’s Department of Corrections and Community Supervision, and represents asylum applicants fleeing persecution.
He received his Juris Doctor in 2017 from the University of Michigan Law School where he was a Contributing Editor of the Journal of Law Reform. Marc Aaron was also the winner of the 2016 University of Michigan Law Transactional Competition and was awarded “Best Drafting for Buy-Side Counsel” and “Best Overall Buy-Side Counsel.” He also represented the University of Michigan Law School in a national transactional law competition, where he was a semi-finalist. During law school, Marc Aaron also worked with low-income individuals as part of the General Civil-Criminal Litigation Clinic and worked with criminal defendants on appellate matters in the Advanced Civil-Criminal Litigation Clinic.
Marc Aaron received his Bachelor of Arts in Political Science and History from the University of California Los Angeles in 2011.
He is admitted to practice in the State of New York and the State of California, and before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and the U.S. District Courts for the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York.
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Credentials
Education:
- University of Michigan - 2017 Juris Doctor
- University of California, Los Angeles - 2011 Bachelor of Arts
Admissions:
- California Bar
- New York Bar