Chad Albert defends companies and individuals facing securities class actions, derivative actions, enforcement actions, and complex civil litigation, and counsels companies, Boards of Directors, and Special Committees in corporate governance and shareholder matters.  He is nationally recognized as a leader in these areas, including by Chambers USA, which ranks him as among the top practitioners in Securities Litigation; by Legal500, which recognizes him in its national rankings for Securities Litigation Defense; by Benchmark Litigation, which ranks him as a “Future Star”; and by Lawdragon’s “500 Leading Litigators in America.”  As Chambers USA highlights, Chad “has a depth of expertise representing clients on a wide variety of securities matters” and is a “great lawyer” and “strong writer” who is “excellent” at “shepherding complex litigation.”

In recent years, Mr. Albert has represented numerous companies, Boards of Directors, and independent Board committees in connection with internal investigations, shareholder disputes, and derivative actions. Mr. Albert, for example, recently represented the Board of Alphabet, Inc. with respect to its consideration of shareholder issues; the Demand Review Committee of the Board of Apollo Global Management in connection with various shareholder claims; the Special Litigation Committee of the Board of Xerox Holdings Corporation in a shareholder derivative action in New York’s Commercial Division; a Director of Bumble, Inc., in a shareholder derivative action in Delaware Chancery; and Stability AI, Inc., a leading artificial intelligence company, in separate securities-related actions pending both in Delaware Chancery and the Eastern District of Virginia.

In addition, Mr. Albert has recently defended a variety of corporations and their officers and directors in major federal securities class actions, including in the banking, finance, media, cryptocurrency, and consumer products spaces.  Mr. Albert also represents individuals and companies in connection with securities-related investigations and proceedings by the U.S. Department of Justice, the Securities and Exchange Commission, and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, often developing strategies in crisis environments to address critical regulatory and enforcement risk.

Mr. Albert clerked for the Hon. Deborah L. Cook of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit. Prior to joining the firm, Mr. Albert practiced at Covington & Burling LLP, where he focused on complex civil trial and appellate litigation. He is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania Law School (cum laude), where he served as Executive Editor of the University of Pennsylvania Law Review, and Tufts University (magna cum laude).