A partner in the Litigation Department, Susanna serves as co-chair of the Securities Litigation and Enforcement Group. The Group has been named Securities Litigation Department of the Year by The American Lawyer, The New York Law Journal, Benchmark Litigation, Law360 and U.S. News and World Report. The American Lawyer called the practice “big, powerful and swaggering,” noting that “no other firm matched the number and magnitude of headline making securities litigation.”
Susanna has extensive experience handling a broad range of matters, with particular emphasis defending financial institutions and corporations in complex securities and commercial matters in federal and state courts across the country. She also regularly represents clients, including financial institutions and other public companies, before the Securities and Exchange Commission, the Department of Justice and numerous other federal and state regulatory authorities.
Susanna has been recognized by numerous publications and directories. She is a three-time Law360 Banking MVP (2018, 2020, 2022), was recognized by Law360 in 2016 as one of “The 25 Most Influential Women in Securities Law.” In 2019, Susanna was named to Crain’s Notable Women in Law, which celebrates talented female attorneys in the New York City metropolitan area. In 2018, she was recognized by Lawdragon in its list of 31 “Legends” and has been included in its list of “500 Leading Lawyers” for over a decade. Susanna is ranked by Chambers USA in the Litigation: Securities (NY) category and by Legal 500 US as a “Leading Lawyer” in the Securities Litigation: Defense and Financial Services Litigation categories. Since 2017, she has been named to Benchmark Litigation’s Top 250 Women in Litigation and in 2016, Susanna was recognized by Law360 as one of “The 25 Most Influential Women in Securities Law.” She has also been named a “Litigation Star (US)” and “Local Litigation Star (NY)” by Benchmark Litigation.
Susanna served as articles editor of the Columbia Law Review and was a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar. She is an adjunct lecturer in law at Columbia Law School and currently teaches a course in trial practice. She held clerkships in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit and in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.
Updated July 2023
