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Manisha M. Sheth is Co-Chair of Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP's Government and Regulatory Litigation Practice and its Sexual Harassment and Employment Discrimination practice. Ms. Sheth is a seasoned
trial lawyer with over 24 years of experience in both private practice and government prosecutions. Her practice focuses on complex commercial litigation, including securities litigation and antitrust litigation;
civil regulatory investigations and litigations; and internal investigations. Most recently, Ms. Sheth was named ‘Litigator of the Week’ by The American Lawyer after obtaining a $1.84 billion settlement for
Ambac Financial Group after five weeks of trial in the Commercial Division of the New York State Supreme Court.
Ms. Sheth has extensive experience in a wide range of complex commercial disputes, involving issues such as breach of contract, securities fraud, antitrust, government contract fraud, privacy and data security, and
other business frauds and torts. She also has served as lead trial counsel on over a dozen civil and criminal trials in federal and state court, including jury and bench trials.
Ms. Sheth recently served as the Executive Deputy Attorney General for the Division of Economic Justice at the Office of the New York Attorney General, where she supervised all of the Office’s complex commercial investigations
and enforcement actions in the areas of antitrust, securities fraud, cybersecurity and data privacy, consumer frauds, and government contracts fraud. As the Executive Deputy Attorney General, Ms. Sheth led
the Division of Economic Justice which consists of 250 attorneys and staff in six affirmative litigation bureaus: Antitrust, Investor Protection (Securities), Internet & Technology, Taxpayer Protection, Consumer
Frauds & Protection, and Real Estate Finance. She developed enforcement priorities for individual bureaus and the Division as a whole. Ms. Sheth was the lead attorney on several high-profile investigations and
litigations, including a trial against former AIG CEO Hank Greenberg, a trial against FedEx Ground, and settlements of RMBS and LIBOR investigations.
Ms. Sheth also served as a federal criminal prosecutor in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. As a federal prosecutor in Philadelphia, Ms. Sheth indicted over thirty-five cases, conducted numerous trials, and
argued several appeals before the Third Circuit. During her tenure at the United States Attorney’s Office, Ms. Sheth conducted numerous long-term grand jury investigations and prosecutions for a wide variety
of federal crimes, including health care fraud, financial institution fraud, money laundering, tax fraud, and regulatory crimes. Ms. Sheth was nominated for the Attorney General’s Award for Outstanding Service by
a New Employee in 2005, the Executive Office of the U.S. Attorneys Director’s Award for Superior Performance as an AUSA in 2006, and the Federal Bar Association’s Younger Federal Lawyer Award in 2008. She also has
been a speaker at numerous seminars and conferences regarding health care fraud prosecutions.
Ms. Sheth has been recognized by Lawdragon 500 as Leading Litigator in Complex Civil Litigation, White Collar, Investigations, 2023; Lawdragon 500 Leading Plaintiff Financial Lawyers Guide in Commercial
Litigation, 2021-2022; The Best Lawyers in America, "Women in the Law", 2022; Crain’s New York Business 2020 Notable Women in Law; The Best Lawyers in America® in securities
litigation, 2023-2025; Lawdragon 500 Leading Plaintiff Financial Lawyers Guide in Business Litigation, 2019-2020; Crain’s New York Business “40 Under 40” list in 2013; and The National Law
Journal’s “Minority 40 Under 40” list in 2011.
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