John M. Lundin

John M. Lundin joined the Firm in July 2002 and became a partner in January 2006.

Mr. Lundin received his B.S. from Cameron University in 1984 (with highest honors), and his J.D. from Columbia University Law School in 1997, where he was a Kent Scholar, winner of the Thomas E. Dewey Prize for best written brief in the 1996 Harlan Fiske Stone Moot Court Competition and Executive Editor of the Columbia Journal of Law and Social Problems. From 1974 to 1994, Mr. Lundin served in the United States Army as an enlisted person, noncommissioned officer and commissioned officer, retiring with the rank of Major. From 1997 to 1998, Mr. Lundin clerked for the Honorable John T. Noonan, Jr., of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. Before becoming associated with the Firm in July 2002, Mr. Lundin was associated with Cravath, Swaine & Moore.

Mr. Lundin's practice focuses on complex commercial litigation; he also represents clients in corporate governance, securities, antitrust, telecommunications, intellectual property, corporate governance, the Internet, and RICO litigation and bankruptcy proceedings. His recent clients include:

a European financial services company in a dispute regarding its purchase of a Mexican insurance company;
international investors who were victimized by a Ponzi scheme masquerading as a hedge fund;
parties to business breakups, including a member of an LLC suing the LLC's majority member over control of more than $500 million in assets, a shareholder of a closely-held corporation being frozen out of management by the majority shareholders, and a ground transportation company which was sued by a former director over the loss of his board position;
biotechnology and pharmaceutical companies and inventors in connection with patent and trade secret disputes;
parties to contract and business tort disputes ranging in size from Fortune 500 companies to individuals and small businesses;
creditors and defendants in bankruptcy adversary proceedings; and
defendants and plaintiffs in RICO, antitrust, patent, trademark, copyright and trade secret disputes in numerous industries.

Mr. Lundin is a member of the New York Bar, as well as the Bars of a number of federal courts around the country.

Mr. Lundin serves on the Commercial Division Advisory Committee, which advises the justices of the Commercial Division of the Supreme Court of New York, New York County. He is an active member of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York, where he is a current member of the Committee on Alternative Dispute Resolution and a past member of the Committees on State Courts of Superior Jurisdiction and Military Affairs and Justice. He has chaired CLE and professional development presentations sponsored by the City Bar. Mr. Lundin also is a member of the Federal Bar Council Inn of Court, the Intellectual Property Law Section of the American Bar Association and the Commercial and Federal Litigation Section of the New York State Bar Association.