
Noted for its willingness ‘to go the extra mile and try cases’, New York-based litigation boutique Selendy Gay PLLC excels in handling complex commercial disputes for both plaintiffs and defendants. On the plaintiff front, under the guidance of seasoned litigator Philippe Selendy, the team gained a reputation for its dogged pursuit of Wall Street in the aftermath of the financial crisis. Some legacy cases remain active, including for US Bank in an action seeking recovery of hundreds of millions of dollars from DLJ Mortgage Capital, Inc. (DLJ) and Ameriquest Mortgage Company for their alleged misconduct in originating and securitizing mortgage-backed securities. Most recently, the firm has been at the vanguard of crypto-related securities litigation, with Jordan Goldstein, who co-heads the overarching securities and structured finance team alongside Selendy, representing plaintiffs in a number of closely watched cases to determine whether digital assets are classified as securities and therefore subject to SEC oversight.
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- 'They are well-placed to go the extra mile and try cases.'
Kernmandanten
- U.S. Bank
- UMB Bank
- Proposed class of investors in Binance
- A proposed class of investors who traded on BitMEX
- Putative class of crypto-investors who purchased securities on Coinbase
- Taewoo Kim, individually and on behalf of a putative class of individuals who purchased the Terraform Labs-issued UST stablecoin and its related token aUST from May 23, 2021 to May 31, 2022, and lost money as a result
- Putative class of crypto-asset investors who purchased various crypto commodities at a time when the crypto commodity market had been artificially inflated by the defendants, Tether and Bitfinex
- A proposed class of investors who traded TRX
- Fortis Advisors
- Henry Rodriguez and Plaintiff Daniel Valenti, individually and on behalf of all others similarly situated
Highlight-Mandate
- Representing U.S. Bank as plaintiff in an action seeking recovery of hundreds of millions of dollars from DLJ Mortgage Capital, Inc. (DLJ) and Ameriquest Mortgage Company for their misconduct in originating and securitizing mortgage-backed securities that played a substantial role in causing the global financial crisis of 2008.
- Representing UMB Bank as Trustee under a Contingent Value Rights Agreement in a lawsuit against Bristol Myers Squibb seeking $6.4bn on account of BMS’s breach of a diligent efforts clause and failure to pay out holders of CVRs that were issued in connection with BMS’s acquisition of Celgene.
- Representing crypto-asset investors in a suit alleging that Binance, one of the world’s largest crypto-asset exchanges, offered and sold billions of dollars of unregistered digital tokens to investors in violation of federal and state securities laws.
Anwält*innen
Hall of fame
Die Anwält*innen an der Spitze ihres Berufsstands, die aufgrund ihres langjährigen Engagements in marktführender Arbeit von Wettbewerbern und Mandanten gleichermaßen geschätzt und anerkannt werden.

Praxisleitung
Philippe Selendy; Jordan Goldstein
Weitere Kernanwält*innen
Oscar Shine