David A. Straite

David A. Straite is co-founder of Sianni & Straite LLP and works in both Delaware and New York. He has represented some of the largest investors in the United States and Europe in all aspects of investor protection litigation, including corporate governance and shareholder derivative actions, hedge fund disputes, and securities actions. He has also advised investors and multinational corporations during HSR and CFIUS premerger reviews, represented consumers in digital privacy actions, and has assisted on several complex antitrust disputes in the United States. With a keen eye for litigation strategy, Mr. Straite also provides case evaluations for clients seeking to join – or avoid – litigation.

Prior to founding Sianni & Straite, Mr. Straite was associated with the Delaware office of Grant & Eisenhofer P.A., representing institutional and individual investors primarily in disputes against financial institutions.  He was also an associate for more than six years in the antitrust department in Skadden Arps’ New York office, where he focused on section 7 of the Clayton Act, HSR premerger notification under section 7A, criminal antitrust grand jury investigations, civil regulatory investigations by the DOJ and FTC, class action antitrust litigation, and complex document production and e-discovery. Mr. Straite was also a litigation associate in the Philadelphia office of Blank Rome, primarily defending claims against air carriers and avionics components manufacturers.

Mr. Straite is a 1996 magna cum laude graduate of the Villanova University School of Law, where he was a member of the Order of the Coif and the St. Thomas More Society. As managing editor of the Villanova Law Review, he organized a symposium on International Regulation of Emerging Computer Technology and received the Arthur Pulling Award. Mr. Straite is also a 1993 graduate of the Murphy Institute of Political Economy at Tulane University in New Orleans.

Mr. Straite recently authored Netherlands: Amsterdam Court of Appeal Approves Groundbreaking Global Settlements Under the Dutch Act on the Collective Settlement of Mass Claims, in The International Lawyer’s annual “International Legal Developments in Review” (2009); was a contributing author to Dabbah and Lasok’s Merger Control Worldwide (2005); and contributed to four annual supplements (2002-2005) of the seminal premerger treatise, Acquisitions Under the Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act by Axinn, Fogg, Stoll & Prager.

Mr. Straite is a member of the Delaware State Bar Association, the ABA Section of International Law (Europe Committee, and International Securities and Capital Markets Committee) and ABA Section of Litigation; The Federalist Society; and The Royal Society of St. George, Delaware Chapter.

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