Brette is a partner in the Paul, Weiss Litigation Department and serves as Co-Chair of the Investment Management Litigation Practice Group and Deputy Co-Chair of the Antitrust Practice Group. She represents clients in a broad range of complex commercial disputes, with particular focus on antitrust and unfair competition litigation, as well as litigation involving investment advisors and their portfolio companies.
Brette also maintains an active pro bono practice focused on post-conviction appeals in capital cases. She recently first chaired an evidentiary hearing on behalf of a death row inmate in Alabama.
Brette earned her A.B. from Princeton University, with honors, and her J.D. from Columbia Law School, where she was a James Kent Scholar and notes editor of the Columbia Law Review. She is a member of the New York State Bar Association’s Antitrust Law Section and the Federal Bar Council First Decades Committee. She also serves on the Board of Trustees of the Randall’s Island Park Alliance.
- Blackstone and its hedge fund division in multiple state and federal court actions arising out of the Kentucky state pension system’s decision to invest in funds of hedge funds, including the successful dismissal of a $50 billion derivative claim on appeal to the Kentucky Supreme Court.
- General Electric in a billion dollar trade secrets misappropriation lawsuit against a direct competitor in the gas turbine industry.
- International Swimming League (ISL) in an antitrust action asserting price-fixing and group boycott claims against competitor World Aquatics for threatening to sanction swimmers who participated in ISL events, including winning a reversal of the trial court’s award of summary judgment for World Aquatics.
- Northwestern University in leading an independent review of the processes and accountability mechanisms in place at the university to detect, report and respond to potential misconduct in its athletics programs, including hazing, bullying and discrimination of any kind. Intense public interest has thrust the university into the public spotlight and made this a very high-profile matter.
- Mastercard International as lead counsel in an antitrust class action brought on behalf of U.S. merchants alleging that major payments networks, together with card-issuing banks, conspired to shift fraud costs for certain card transactions from the issuing banks onto merchants in connection with the roll-out of EMV-chip cards in the U.S.
- Competition/antitrust
- Litigation
- Investment Funds Litigation
- Media & Entertainment
- Private Equity
- Sports
- J.D. Columbia Law School
- A.B. Princeton University
- New York State Bar