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David Braff is the managing partner of Sullivan & Cromwell’s Litigation Group. He is a member of the Firm’s Management Committee.

Mr. Braff has worked on a wide variety of matters, with a particular emphasis on banking and securities litigation, including securities class actions. He has also litigated intellectual property, tax and employment matters, and handled a wide variety of regulatory and criminal matters.

Selected Cases 

• Represents Goldman Sachs in securities cases relating to alleged analyst conflicts of interest 
• Represents Goldman Sachs in securities and antitrust cases relating to auction rate securities
• Lead counsel for Barclays in the nationwide Enron litigation, including a securities class action and related proceedings
• Represents public companies and directors in challenges to executive compensation
• Represents numerous clients in internal investigations and related regulatory and criminal investigations and proceedings

Rankings and Recognitions

Mr. Braff has been recognized as a star in litigation (New York) by Euromoney’s Benchmark: America’s Leading Litigation Firms and Attorneys (2010, 2009, 2008); in corporate governance by The Legal 500, United States, Volume I (2009, 2007); in securities shareholder litigation by The Legal 500, United States, Volume III (2009, 2007); in securities litigation by New York Super Lawyers (2009, 2008, 2007, 2006); in commercial litigation by The Best Lawyers in America (2010, 2009, 2008); and as a leading litigator in Lawdragon’s “100 Lawyers You Need to Know in Securities Litigation” (2008), The Lawdragon 500: Leading Lawyers in America (2008) and The Lawdragon 500: The Leading Litigators in America (2006).