Biography
Liz’s notable experiences include serving on Weil teams representing:
- Brookfield Asset Management, in a consolidated stockholder derivative and class action in Delaware Chancery Court arising out of a June 2018 private placement by TerraForm Power, Inc.
- A French société anonyme that develops and markets systems allowing for the visualization of electromagnetic waves, in a class action in Delaware Chancery Court arising out of a 2018 squeeze-out merger.
- An American-Taiwanese company specializing in memory controllers in a dispute pending before an international arbitration tribunal arising from a failed merger.
- AMC Entertainment, in a complex corporate dispute in New York Supreme Court.
- The former CEO of Abengoa, S.A., a Spanish energy and clean technology company, on appeal before the Second Circuit following dismissal of the underlying securities fraud class action by the Southern District of New York.
- Gores Guggenheim Inc., a SPAC sponsored by affiliates of The Gores Group and Guggenheim Capital, its former directors and officers, and certain affiliates, in a fiduciary duty litigation in the Delaware Court of Chancery relating to Gores Guggenheim’s $20 billion business combination with Polestar Performance AB.
- Churchill Capital Corp. III, a SPAC sponsored by Churchill Capital Group, and certain directors in a fiduciary duty litigation in the Delaware Court of Chancery relating to CCIII’s $11 billion merger with MultiPlan, Inc.
- American International Group, Inc. in litigation as equity holder and largest unsecured creditor owed approximately $37.5 billion, in connection with the chapter 11 case of AIG Financial Products Corp.
- Getty Images Holdings, Inc. in connection with breach of contract and securities law claims by warrant holders arising out of a de-SPAC transaction in the Southern District of New York.
- Sasol Ltd., a South African energy and chemical company, and senior executives in a securities class action in the Southern District of New York relating to the construction of a multi-billion dollar chemical plant in Louisiana.
- Upsolve, Inc. in the Southern District of New York to empower non-attorney justice advocates to provide legal advice to expand access to justice for low-income defendants in debt collection lawsuits. The case was featured in the New York Times and described by Law360 as one of “the cases that most affected access to justice in 2022.”
Liz also maintains an active pro bono practice, including representing Belarusian clients applying for asylum based on political beliefs and a Sri Lankan client with former refugee status in obtaining a spousal visa for their wife. She has also been an active member of the Weil team that secured a preliminary injunction blocking enforcement of North Dakota’s abortion ban, working alongside the Center for Reproductive Rights. Liz recently joined the Board of Directors of Bellevue Literary Press, a nonprofit press publishing literary fiction and nonfiction at the intersection of the arts and sciences.
Prior to joining Weil, Liz spent 10 years as the Special Assistant to the Legal Director of the national ACLU, where she served as the lead paralegal for more than 200 briefs, petitions, and motions filed by the ACLU in the U.S. Supreme Court. In this capacity, she supported litigators arguing a wide range of the most important civil rights and constitutional law cases in recent years, including cases protecting a public school student’s profane off-campus Snapchat from school discipline, extending privacy protection to cell phone location data, ensuring that transgender people are protected from employment discrimination under Title VII, striking down an effort to add a citizenship question to the U.S. census, and challenging the Muslim ban, border wall, and a range of anti-asylum policies.
Liz received her J.D., magna cum laude, from Brooklyn Law School, where she was an Executive Articles Editor of the Brooklyn Law Review. She received her B.A. in History and English & Comparative Literature from Columbia University.