Tanner S. Stanley

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

• AMC Entertainment and its board in ongoing fiduciary duty litigation in the Delaware Court of Chancery relating to AMC’s issuance of AMC Preferred Equity Units.
• AMC Entertainment in earnings miss securities class actions and related shareholder derivative litigation in the Southern District of New York.
• ATI Physical Therapy and certain of its officers and directors in connection with federal securities and derivative litigation and Delaware fiduciary duty litigation relating to its 2021 de-SPAC transaction with Fortress Value Acquisition Corp. II.;
• Brookfield Asset Management and certain of its affiliates in a consolidated stockholder derivative and class action in Delaware Chancery Court arising out of a June 2018 private placement by TerraForm Power, Inc.
• Churchill Capital Corp. IV in federal and state court stockholder litigations arising out of its de-SPAC merger with Lucid Motors.
• Estée Lauder and its directors and officers in newly filed securities class action and derivative matters relating to allegedly false and misleading public statements regarding future sales in travel retail.
• Gores Group and its SPAC directors and officers in numerous stockholder litigations in the Delaware Court of Chancery arising out of various de-SPAC transactions.
• Lululemon, its senior officers and directors in securities class action and shareholder derivative actions.
• Morgan Stanley, 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.
• A global investment bank in connection with a variety of state and federal regulatory inquiries.

Tanner also has a committed pro bono practice. Of late, he has been working with the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law in connection with its Election Protection program and voter hotline service.

Tanner currently serves on the Junior Board of New Alternatives for Children, a charitable organization that provides healthcare and social services for medically complex children and their families in the New York City area.

Tanner received his J.D. from Osgoode Hall Law School, where he received a number of honors, including the Gold Medal for the Class of 2018. While in law school, he also served as Executive Editor of the Osgoode Hall Law Journal. He received his B.A. from McGill University.

Following law school, Tanner served as a judicial law clerk for judges of the Court of Appeal for Ontario.