Margaret Dale is a trial lawyer and first-chair litigator specializing in complex business disputes across a wide variety of industries, including asset management, consumer products, media and entertainment, financial services, telecommunications and technology, and higher education. Formerly the vice-chair of the Litigation Department, she co-heads the Litigation Department’s Data Privacy and Cybersecurity Practice Group. Margaret has been named to Benchmark Litigation’s Top 250 Women in Litigation since 2017.
For over 30 years, Margaret has focused on all facets of commercial litigation, including privacy and data security matters, as well as disputes involving contracts, intellectual property, bankruptcy and insolvency, mergers and acquisitions, shareholders, securities, and corporate governance. Margaret also regularly counsels clients before litigation commences to assess risk, adopt strategies to minimize or deflect disputes, and resolve matters without going to court.
Margaret is a frequent writer, and regularly contributes a column on corporate and securities law to the New York Law Journal. She is also the author of the “Privileges” chapter in Haig’s Commercial Litigation in New York State Courts treatise, as well as the “Data Breach Litigation” chapter in PLI’s Proskauer on Privacy. Margaret also serves as the lead editor of Proskauer’s commercial litigation blog, Minding Your Business.
Margaret maintains an active pro bono practice advocating on issues relating to women, children and veterans. She serves on the Board of Directors of Center for Family Representation, Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts, and the City Bar Fund.
Representative Matters:
- Historic victory on behalf of the Financial Oversight & Management Board for Puerto Rico, eliminating over $6 billion of the $8.4 billion of bond debt for PREPA, Puerto Rico’s electric utility. The FOMB objected to the bondholders’ claim on several grounds, including that it was not secured and it was not a recourse claim.
- Secured dismissal of all counts brought against Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation in a lawsuit alleging that DTCC, along with federal government officials, unlawfully seized $700 billion in cash funds that were transferred from a Taiwanese bank as part of a $2.1 trillion investment by a deceased investor.
- Otis Worldwide Corporation in obtaining dismissal of a putative class action seeking hundreds of millions of dollars in damages based on claimed decreases in the value of long-term incentive awards and deferred compensation.
Updated Sep 2023
