Litigation Counsel, Vinson & Elkins
Lawrence is a litigator and business advisor with over a decade of experience defending public and private companies in complex securities and commercial litigation and regulatory investigations in state and federal courts and administrative and alternative dispute resolution proceedings throughout the Unites States.
As co-head of V&E’s Shareholder Activism Practice and its chief litigator, he leverages these experiences to counsel senior management and boards of public companies with respect to proxy contests and other shareholder activism campaigns, corporate governance matters, and strategic investor relations.
Partner, Foley & Lardner LLP
A trial and courtroom lawyer for over 30 years, Jason A. Levine is an antitrust and commercial litigation partner in the Washington, D.C. office of Foley & Lardner LLP.
Mr. Levine has served as lead counsel for clients in high-stakes and often multi-faceted business disputes. His diverse practice focuses on antitrust, complex contractual, and business tort suits. Mr. Levine tried 14 cases to judges and juries across the country, briefed and argued dozens of dispositive motions and several precedent-setting appeals, and has had an active amicus practice before the U.S. Supreme Court for nationwide trade associations. He was also lead counsel to defendants in several of the nation’s largest antitrust class actions and MDLs. Mr. Levine has perennially been recognized as a prominent litigator by Best Lawyers, SuperLawyers, Benchmark Litigation, and Global Competition Review. He also spent nearly four years as an Investment Manager at Omni Bridgeway, a global commercial litigation finance company, where he launched and led the Washington, D.C. office and led the U.S. antitrust strategy.
Mr. Levine received his B.A. summa cum laude (Phi Beta Kappa) from Brandeis University in 1991 and his J.D. cum laude from Harvard Law School in 1994, where he was Editor-in-Chief of the Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy. Before entering private practice, Mr. Levine was a law clerk for Judge Randall Rader on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, where he focused on the court’s Takings and administrative cases.
The Struggle to Rein In Shareholder Activism
Lawrence Elbaum, Jason Alan Levine
Corporations, Securities, and Antitrust Practice Group and Litigation Practice Group Teleforum
For over a decade, shareholder activism has been on the rise, affecting an increasing number...