A Cooley team earned a shout out on The American Lawyer’s Litigator of the Week Runners-Up and Shout-Outs list for securing an appellate victory that eliminated a fraud lawsuit against identity verification and fraud prevention client Socure Inc. The New York Appellate Division, First Department overturned a trial court’s decision that allowed a former Socure employee to pursue claims seeking hundreds of millions of dollars after alleging that his shares were fraudulently diluted and that the company misrepresented its value before buying out his remaining equity in 2018.

The Cooley team was led by partners Timothy Cook and Ephraim McDowell, and associates Anna Mohan, Connie Wang, Katelyn Kang and Mikhaila Fogel.

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