Maria Slobodchikova is a dispute resolution lawyer at Freshfields New York and represents clients in complex commercial disputes.
Maria assists clients in a broad array of contexts, including jury trials, proceedings pending before federal and state trial and appellate courts, as well as international and domestic arbitral tribunals. She has worked in all stages of litigation, from initial investigations to trial, and has handled matters involving a wide-range of substantive legal areas including business torts, contract, intellectual property, licensing and earnouts, mergers and acquisitions, insurance, securities, shareholder fiduciary-duty litigation, structured finance, and the Anti-Terrorism Act.
Before joining Freshfields, she was an associate in the dispute resolution practice of a prominent international law firm’s New York office. While in law school, Maria served as a judicial extern for the Honorable William G. Young of the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts.
- Palantir and its directors and officers in a multibillion-dollar insider trading, breach of fiduciary duties and unjust enrichment case in the Delaware Court of Chancery. Obtained dismissal with prejudice.
- Defending alleged violations of the law of nations and the Anti-Terrorism Act concerning conduct in areas of conflict.
- Representing a Canadian-based global investment group, regarding litigation and regulatory risk arising from allegations in the US of fraud and financial misconduct involving one of its portfolio companies
- Representing a London-based private equity firm in connection with post-acquisition disputes involving US-based portfolio companies, including disputes involving earnout provisions.
- Representing a biotech company in JAMS arbitration arising under a collaboration agreement.
- Palantir in cross border proceedings in Delaware, California and Germany in asserting and defending various business tort and contractual claims. Obtained favorable settlement on eve of trial;
- A European synthetic diamonds manufacturer in a multi-jurisdictional dispute with its joint venture partner related to the management and restructuring of the joint venture project.
- The Republic of Latvia in obtaining dismissal of an action to enforce arbitral award.
- A Canadian gold mining company, in a contractual dispute with Venezuela (NY state court).
- A class of indigent New Yorkers in a dispute against the NYS Department of Health concerning validity of New York Medicaid Dental Policy (S.D.N.Y.).
- Centerra Gold Inc. in UNCITRAL arbitration against Kyrgyzstan over a gold mining concession.*
- A Brazilian oil drilling company in a multijurisdictional dispute with a joint venture partner in an oil drillship venture and the subsequent proceedings on enforcement of the arbitral award.*
- A global investment bank in a securities class action alleging fraudulent misrepresentations.*
- A major financial institution in a dispute against the US Department of Justice alleging misrepresentations in disclosures relating to financial instruments backed by residential subprime mortgages.*
- A Swiss bank in its settlement resolving the New York Attorney General's claims regarding the sale of residential mortgage-backed securities in the run-up to the financial crisis.
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