A. Macdonald Caputo, Jr.
Partner at Kasowitz Benson Torres LLP
Complex Commercial and Securities Litigator at Kasowitz Benson Torres LLP
My practice focuses on complex commercial, financial products, and securities-related litigation in both state and federal courts.  I regularly handle a wide variety of commercial and contract disputes, securities litigation, and fraud actions.  I also devote my time to pro bono work on asylum matters.
Kasowitz Benson Torres LLP
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Kasowitz’s core focus is commercial litigation. We outthink and outflank our opponents, and understand what it means for our clients to win. We have extensive trial experience and are always trial-ready. We represent both plaintiffs and defendants and have won major cases in virtually every litigation sub-area.

We have significant experience in representing clients in all types of breach of contract, fraud, fraudulent conveyance, tortious interference, antitrust, unfair competition, civil RICO, securities, breach of fiduciary duty, negligence, product liability, environmental and other commercial actions in state and federal courts throughout the country, as well as in national and international arbitrations and mediations.

Our clients include Fortune 500 and other leading companies across a wide range of industries, including private equity, financial services, manufacturing, high-tech, chemical, energy, entertainment, consumer products, pharmaceutical and telecommunications. Our philosophy is to aggressively litigate every action, while doing so in a cost-effective manner, in order to best achieve the goals of our clients.
Greater New York City Area
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Partner
Kasowitz Benson Torres LLP
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New York City
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Associate
Doctor of Law (JD)
Law
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University of Virginia
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MA
English Language and Literature/Letters
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University of Virginia
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Bachelor's degree
English; Psychology
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University of Virginia
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I represented an industrial conglomerate pursuing securities fraud claims for insider trading and market manipulation against a major investment bank.
A foreign industrial conglomerate
I represented a hedge fund and its principal, independent members of the board of directors of a large publicly traded energy company, in litigation arising from a failed merger.
A hedge fund and its principal
I represented Eros International, a leading Bollywood film producer, in the defense of a putative securities class action.  We successfully argued before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit to secure the dismissal, with prejudice, of all alleged securities fraud claims.  I also represented Eros in defamation claims against several hedge funds and market participants that conspired to execute a multi-year short-and-distort scheme against Eros.
Eros International
I represented MBIA, one of the world’s largest monoline insurers, in litigation brought by 18 of the world’s largest banks seeking to overturn MBIA’s corporate restructuring which, with the approval of the New York Department of Insurance (now the Department of Financial Services), established a separate company for MBIA’s municipal bond insurance business. After a several-week evidentiary proceeding, the New York Supreme Court ruled in favor of MBIA, upholding MBIA’s restructuring.  The banks agreed to drop their challenge to MBIA’s restructuring, and MBIA then received $1.7 billion in cash and a $500 million line of credit for its municipal bond insurance business.
MBIA
I represented the Renco Group and certain shareholders in the defense of thousands of individual suits brought by Peruvian plaintiffs asserting mass tort and vicarious liability claims related to the operation of a polymetallic smelter.
The Renco Group
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New York, NY
Scott Caputo
Merrill Lynch
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New York, NY
Marc Kasowitz
Managing Partner at Kasowitz Benson Torres LLP
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Greenwich, CT
Cecilia D.
Student at the University of Pennsylvania
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New York City Metropolitan Area
Matthew Tamis
Student at Cornell University
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Wyckoff, NJ
Jonathan Grossman
CS @ Cornell
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New York, NY
Siena Green
Intern at Makrosha
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Purchase, NY
Ellie Zimmerman
CEO & Founder at Interns 4-Good; Human and Organizational Development Major at Vanderbilt University
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New York City Metropolitan Area
Jessica Jacobs
Incoming Summer Associate at EY-Parthenon |  Chief of Sales and Strategy at Wash U Wash
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Purchase, NY
Helena Zimmerman
Point72 2022 Academy Summer Analyst
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Washington, DC
Diana Stettner
Investor at Avenue Growth Partners
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Short Hills, NJ
Abhay Bhandari
Senior at Washington University in St. Louis | Incoming Business Analyst at McKinsey & Company
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New York City Metropolitan Area
Katie Harris
Finance Student at Washington University in St. Louis
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New York City Metropolitan Area
Carly Pomerantz
Incoming Asset Management Analyst at UBS
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New York, NY
Sam Stein
Incoming Investment Banking Analyst at Goldman Sachs
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Philadelphia, PA
Leah Katz
Litigation Partner at Troutman Pepper
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Miami, FL
David Karp
Appellate litigator focused on First Amendment, defamation, and complex commercial and class action cases at Carlton Fields
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Los Angeles, CA
Kenneth Trujillo-Jamison
Proven Litigator Experienced in Copyright and Complex Commercial Litigation
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Toronto, ON
Chanakya Sethi
Partner at Davies Ward Phillips & Vineberg LLP
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Washington, DC
Gavin Thole
Trial Attorney at U.S. Department of Justice