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Ms. Coll-Very is a Litigation Partner in the Firm’s Palo Alto Office. Her areas of concentration are internal investigations, shareholder litigation, and general commercial disputes.
Ms. Coll-Very has extensive experience representing and advising Audit Committees and Special Litigation Committees and in conducting internal investigations on their behalf. In recent years she has represented the Audit Committees of Affymetrix, BEA Systems, Clorox and VeriFone in investigations related to alleged accounting or financial wrongdoing and several other companies in investigations into alleged violations of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act. She has also represented Westar Energy’s Litigation Evaluation Committee in its investigation of allegations of illegal accounting and regulatory activities, the Special Litigation Committee of Oracle Corporation in its investigation of alleged insider trading by senior officers and members of the Board of Directors and Vestar Capital Partners in its investigation into allegations of improper employment practices among the management of one of its portfolio companies. These representations regularly require Ms. Coll-Very to appear before the Securities and Exchange Commission’s Enforcement Division and other regulators.
Ms. Coll-Very has represented financial sponsors, such as Blum Capital Partners, Hellman & Friedman, KKR, and Silver Lake Partners in litigation relating to mergers, acquisitions, sales and IPOs. She regularly represents these entities before regulators, including the SEC and the stock exchanges. She has also represented these entities in derivative lawsuits or federal class actions arising from alleged wrongdoing at portfolio companies. Ms. Coll-Very also has extensive experience representing public companies in derivative and class action suits in California, Delaware, New York and elsewhere. She regularly advises issuers on matters of SEC compliance and shareholder rights.
Ms. Coll-Very has handled a number of commercial disputes, both in court and arbitration, for clients such as C.R. Bard, Intel, Northwest Airlines, and NuSkin. She currently represents Seagate Technology in a series of arbitrations and lawsuits in California, Singapore and Dubai arising from Seagate’s termination of its relationship with its largest world-wide distributor. She has also worked in the bankruptcy courts where she has represented clients such as Lehman Commercial Paper and Fry’s Electronics.
Ms. Coll-Very routinely handles civil-rights lawsuits for various pro bono clients, at trial and on appeal, in the state and federal courts of California. She serves as a member of the Board of Directors of the Law Foundation of Silicon Valley and Legal Community Against Violence.
Ms. Coll-Very began practicing law in Simpson Thacher’s New York office in 1995. She received her A.B., cum laude, from Duke University in 1992 and J.D. from the University of Virginia Law School in 1995. She is admitted to practice in the state and federal district courts of California and New York. She was admitted to the United States Supreme Court in 2000 and the Ninth Circuit in 2003.
Publications
Speaking Engagements
Admissions
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New York 1997 |
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California 2001 |
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U.S. District Court Eastern District of New York 1997 |
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U.S. District Court Southern District of New York 1997 |
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U.S. District Court Central District of California 2001 |
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U.S. District Court Northern District of California 2001 |
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U.S. District Court Southern District of California 2001 |
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U.S. Supreme Court 2001 |
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U.S. Court of Appeals 9th Circuit 2003 |
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Education
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University of Virginia School of Law, 1995 J.D.
Virginia Envt'l Law Journal, 1993-1995; Articles Editor, 1994-1995 |
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Duke University, 1992 A.B.
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