Greg Markel is a nationally known trial lawyer who concentrates his practice on securities litigation, corporate governance litigation, mergers and acquisition litigation and antitrust litigation particularly in bet your company cases.
He has been recognized for years as a leader in the profession by many publications including: 2013 Lawyers of the Year for Mergers and Acquisition by Best Lawyers, LawDragon’s 500 Leading Lawyers in America, and one of the 100 Securities Litigators You Need to Know, one of the Top 100 Lawyers in New York by Super Lawyers, highly ranked by Chambers for Securities Litigation, Benchmark as a national Litigation Star, for outstanding performance by Best Lawyer’s in America, Legal 500 Leading Commercial Litigators, “Best in Class” in the legal profession by BestofUS.com, The International Who’s Who of Commercial Litigators and many others.
Greg is a graduate of Yale Law School, the University of Michigan with an MBA in Finance and Columbia College.
Greg has played a lead counsel role in many bet-your-company litigation on behalf of many leading corporations and financial institutes.
He is a member of the Litigation and Antitrust sections of the American Bar Association; the Federal Bar Council; the City Bar Committee on Securities Litigation; the Securities Industry Association – Compliance & Legal Division; the New York State Bar Association, Commercial Litigation Section, is a Fellow of the New York Bar Foundation and is a member of the Boards of the Legal Aid Society, the New York County Lawyers Association (NYCLA) and Junior Achievement of New York.
He is frequently called on to comment on legal issues for the Wall Street Journal, The Financial Times, CNBC, Bloomberg TV, Bloomberg Radio, The New York Times, Time, Newsweek, The Daily and the Associated Press. Greg also frequently speaks to the press and others on a range of topics, such as securities law, commercial litigation, accountants’ defense, director’s and officer’s liability, law firm management and Internet litigation.
