MAX SCHWARTZ
HIGHLIGHTS:
- Super Lawyer (2021-2024)
- Super Lawyer “Rising Star” (2015)
BIO:
Max Schwartz is a partner in the Firm’s New York office, focusing on securities matters and complex litigation. He has served as lead counsel in numerous high-stakes cases, recovering hundreds of millions of dollars for institutional investors, hedge funds and other clients. He also advises clients on strategies for using legal rights and remedies to enhance returns or recoup losses on investments.
Mr. Schwartz has expertise in matters involving a wide variety of industries, ranging from financial products to data storage and AI, and has successfully brought novel claims to obtain recoveries for clients. Following the financial crisis, Mr. Schwartz set important precedent involving mortgage-backed securities (“MBS”), arguing the first cases to find that trustees had an obligation to enforce investors’ rights and have deficient mortgages repurchased from MBS trusts. In addition to fraud and other securities claims, Mr. Schwartz has significant experience litigating antitrust and shareholder cases as well.
REPRESENTATIVE CASES:
- Firefighters Pens. vs. Newell Brands Inc., No. L-003492-18 (N.J. Sup. Ct. Hudson Cnty.)
- Policemen’s Annuity and Benefit Fund of the City of Chicago v. Bank of Am., NA, 1:12-cv-2865 (S.D.N.Y.)
- In re SanDisk LLC Sec. Litig., No. 15-cv-01455 (N.D. Cal.)
- Weston v. RCS Capital Corp., No. 1:14-cv-10136 (S.D.N.Y.)
- Dahl v. Bain Capital Partners, LLC, No. 1:07-cv-12388 (D. Mass.)
