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Gillian is a special counsel in Cadwalader’s Global Litigation Group, resident in New York. She concentrates her practice on complex commercial and securities litigation, bankruptcy litigation, and regulatory matters. Gillian’s clients include public and private companies, underwriters, lenders, professional firms, corporate directors and other individuals in a variety of industries, including financial services, insurance, energy, pharmaceuticals, manufacturing, real estate and telecommunications. The Legal 500 US reported that clients praise Gillian for her “consistent, strong, thoughtful and timely work product.”
Gillian also serves as Cadwalader’s Associate General Counsel. In that role, Gillian regularly advises the Firm and its lawyers on ethical issues, professional responsibility, issues related to conflicts of interest and risk management.
Gillian was named a Client Services All-Star by the BTI Consulting Group, which selects lawyers who “deliver outstanding legal skills” based on hundreds of in-depth, independent interviews with legal corporate counsel at the world’s leading organizations. She has been recognized for her legal abilities by the New York Metro Edition of SuperLawyers. She won a Burton Award for Distinguished Legal Writing as co-author of “Assessing A Judicial Solution To Abusive Merger Litigation,” published by Law360.
Gillian has served on the Professional Responsibility Committee for the New York City Bar Association. She chaired the Firm’s Women’s Leadership Initiative for many years.
She received her B.A., magna cum laude, from Duke University and her J.D., cum laude, from Fordham Law School. At Fordham, Gillian was chairperson of Fordham’s nationally ranked Dispute Resolution Society and a staff member of the International Law Journal. During law school, she interned for Judge Richard Wesley of the United States Court of Appeal for the Second Circuit.
