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Douglas W. Henkin is a partner in the Litigation Department of Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy LLP. He concentrates primarily on federal and state court securities and complex commercial litigation in trial and appellate courts, as well as regulatory matters. Mr. Henkin has extensive experience working with complex securities and other financial products, having represented broker-dealers and securities purchasers in actions involving collateralized mortgage obligations and other mortgage-backed securities, structured notes, convertible debentures, and high-yield short-term notes. He has represented defendants in federal and state actions in which securities-related claims have been asserted on behalf of individuals and classes, appearing on behalf of broker-dealers, underwriters, issuers, officers, and directors. Mr. Henkin also has extensive experience defending direct and derivative claims against companies, officers, and directors and claims relating to mergers, acquisitions, and restructurings, as well as litigation involving commodities and commodities derivatives. Mr. Henkin represented one of the world’s largest banking institutions in a case concerning high-yield short-term notes, one of the world’s largest securities firms in connection with various Orange County litigation matters, and one of the world’s largest electronics companies in a patent dispute concerning computer displays. He also represented a leading high technology company in its successful defense of a securities class action suit brought after it was required to restate its financials following a change in accounting methodology mandated by the SEC. In addition, Mr. Henkin has represented the New York Stock Exchange in several important litigation matters involving the SRO disciplinary and arbitration systems, the functioning of and relationships between self-regulatory organizations, and the creation of the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, Inc. Mr. Henkin received his S.B. in Theoretical Mathematics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and his J.D. cum laude from the University of Pennsylvania Law School, where he was an Editor of the Law Review. He clerked for Judge William J. Holloway of the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit. Mr. Henkin has been listed in the 2007 edition of Chambers USA as well as Legal 500 for Litigation and is the author of "Judicial Estoppel: Beating Shields Into Swords and Back Again," 139 U. PA. L. PEV. 1711 (1991).
Douglas W. Henkin is a partner in the Litigation Department of Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy LLP. He concentrates primarily on federal and state court securities and complex commercial litigation in trial and appellate courts, as well as regulatory matters.
Mr. Henkin has extensive experience working with complex securities and other financial products, having represented broker-dealers and securities purchasers in actions involving collateralized mortgage obligations and other mortgage-backed securities, structured notes, convertible debentures, and high-yield short-term notes. He has represented defendants in federal and state actions in which securities-related claims have been asserted on behalf of individuals and classes, appearing on behalf of broker-dealers, underwriters, issuers, officers, and directors. Mr. Henkin also has extensive experience defending direct and derivative claims against companies, officers, and directors and claims relating to mergers, acquisitions, and restructurings, as well as litigation involving commodities and commodities derivatives.
Mr. Henkin represented one of the world’s largest banking institutions in a case concerning high-yield short-term notes, one of the world’s largest securities firms in connection with various Orange County litigation matters, and one of the world’s largest electronics companies in a patent dispute concerning computer displays. He also represented a leading high technology company in its successful defense of a securities class action suit brought after it was required to restate its financials following a change in accounting methodology mandated by the SEC. In addition, Mr. Henkin has represented the New York Stock Exchange in several important litigation matters involving the SRO disciplinary and arbitration systems, the functioning of and relationships between self-regulatory organizations, and the creation of the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, Inc.
Mr. Henkin received his S.B. in Theoretical Mathematics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and his J.D. cum laude from the University of Pennsylvania Law School, where he was an Editor of the Law Review. He clerked for Judge William J. Holloway of the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit.
Mr. Henkin has been listed in the 2007 edition of Chambers USA as well as Legal 500 for Litigation and is the author of "Judicial Estoppel: Beating Shields Into Swords and Back Again," 139 U. PA. L. PEV. 1711 (1991).
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