Heidi Goldsmith

Some of Heidi’s recent notable experience includes working on Weil teams representing:

• Walgreens and its senior executives in securities fraud class action and separate opt out claims relating to statements the company made concerning a proposed merger.
• Churchill Capital Corp. III (CCCIII) and certain directors in ongoing fiduciary duty litigation in the Delaware Court of Chancery relating to CCIII’s $11 billion merger with MultiPlan, Inc.
• Telos Corp. in securities fraud class action relating to statements the company made concerning award of certain government contracts in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia.
• 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.
• Pilgrim’s Pride in securities class action and shareholder derivative actions involving industry-wide price fixing in the District of Colorado.
• Gores Guggenheim Inc., its former directors and officers, and certain affiliates in ongoing fiduciary litigation in the Delaware Court of Chancery related to Gores Guggenheim’s $20 billion business combination with Polestar Performance AB.
• Brookfield Asset Management and certain of its affiliates in a consolidated stockholder derivative and class action in Delaware Court of Chancery arising out of a private placement by TerraForm Power, Inc. and a merger with TerraForm Power, Inc.
• Morgan Stanley as the financial advisor to Elon Musk and his affiliated companies, in connection with Twitter’s expedited lawsuit in the Delaware Court of Chancery seeking to force the closing of Mr. Musk’s acquisition of Twitter.
• AMC Entertainment, in a complex corporate dispute in New York Supreme Court.

Heidi is also currently serving as the lead associate in several Weil in multiple pro bono matters, including the team representing the Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence, which secured a summary judgment victory in a FOIA action that will advance transparency through disclosure of federal firearm purchase background check procedures, the team that won a full-trial victory in a defensive asylum case for an LGBTQ+ asylee from Honduras, and ongoing representations of asylees and refugees from Afghanistan, Honduras, and Moldova.

Heidi has served for the last three years as Co-Chair of the New York City Bar Association’s National Moot Court Competition Committee overseeing one of the nation’s oldest and most prestigious appellate advocacy competitions, coordinating problem development, managing competition logistics, and working closely with judges and attorney volunteers across the country.

Heidi received her J.D., summa cum laude, from New York Law School, where she was the Executive Notes and Comments Editor for the New York Law School Law Review, the Chair of the Moot Court Association, and a member of the Dean’s Leadership Council. During law school, Heidi interned for the Honorable Jesse M. Furman of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York. Upon graduation, she was honored with the Dr. Max Reich Award for Excellence in Civil Trial Advocacy, the Louis Susman Award for Excellence in the Study of the Law of Evidence, the Otto Walter Distinguished Writing Award, an award for Outstanding Editorial Contribution to the New York Law School Law Review, the New York Law School Trustee’s Prize, and inducted into the Order of the Barristers.

Prior to graduating from law school, Heidi had a 31-year career as an aerospace structural design engineer for the Department of the Navy designing helicopters and tiltrotors for the U.S. Navy, Marine Corps, and Air Force. During that time, she acted as the structural design, development, test, evaluation, and airworthiness certification authority for the U.S. Navy for seven different manned and unmanned military rotary wing aircraft platforms, spent time as an FAA Designated Engineering Representative, and served as a team lead for an FAA advisory and rule-making committee to develop modernized crash safety-related structural design criteria. Heidi also has substantial experience performing aircraft crash accident investigations and crash recreation analysis on behalf of government authorities and has served as an expert witness in that capacity. For her work in crashworthy seat structural design and certification, Heidi received the Dr. Dolores M. Etter Top Scientists and Engineers of the Year Award.