Scott L. Walker is Counsel in the Lowenstein Sandler Litigation Department and is a member of the firm’s Capital Markets Litigation, and Antitrust Practice Groups.

Mr. Walker has litigated a broad array of complex commercial cases, including matters in federal and state courts in New York, New Jersey, Delaware, California, and several other jurisdictions in the areas of structured finacial products (including collateralized debt obligations (CDOs) and credit default swaps (CDSs)), antitrust, securities fraud, commercial breach of contract, breach of fiduciary duty, defamation, constitutional rights, probate law, and ERISA. In the course of his work on these matters, Mr. Walker has been involved in trial preparation, client counseling, deposition practice, and drafting and filing briefs relating to various motions at the trial and appellate levels. In addition, Mr. Walker has been responsible for coordinating responses to numerous non-party subpoenas and assisted with the provision of deposition testimony and large-scale document productions for such subpoenas.

Before joining Lowenstein Sandler, Mr. Walker served as an associate at the New York offices of both Davis & Gilbert LLP and Cahill Gordon & Reindel LLP. While at Cahill, Mr. Walker was involved in the United States Supreme Court case that challenged the constitutionality of the McCain-Feingold campaign finance statute.

Prior to joining Cahill, Mr. Walker served for two years as a law clerk to the Honorable John E. Sprizzo in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York.

Some of Mr. Walker’s other representative matters include:

• Representation of an investment management company with more than $9 billion of assets under management in connection with its claims as a CDO noteholder in an ongoing litigation alleging improper use of derivative transactions
• Investigation of claims related to multiple subprime CDO transactions
• In re Employee Benefit Insurance Brokerage Antitrust Litigation: Mr. Walker is part of a team representing Prudential Financial, Inc., and Prudential Life Insurance Company of America as defendants in this federal multidistrict civil RICO and antitrust class action involving claims of bid-rigging, market allocation, and ERISA violations.
• Robertson v. Princeton University: Mr. Walker was part of a team that represented the defendants in this nationally prominent derivative litigation that raised a number of issues of first impression involving donor intent, academic freedom, and the fiduciary duties of directors of a "supporting" charitable corporation who are appointed by the "supported" charitable corporation. Alleging, among other things, fraud and breach of fiduciary duty, plaintiffs sought to sever the ties between Princeton University and the Robertson Foundation (a supporting organization, with assets of almost $1 billion, dedicated to funding the graduate program of the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs) and to surcharge the University an additional several hundred million dollars. On December 13, 2008, the case settled on terms extremely favorable to the University.
• Representation of a large publicly-traded company in connection with an SEC investigation and securities fraud litigation that related to allegations of improper accounting.
• Representation of an international pharmaceutical company in a federal lawsuit alleging that the company attempted to monopolize the market for a particular drug compound by, among other things, engaging in activities designed to prevent generic versions of that compound from reaching the market. During that representation, Mr. Walker helped the company achieve summary judgment on the question of the relevant product market, which the Court found the plaintiffs had improperly limited to the market for the specific drug compound in dispute.
• Representation of a large manufacturing company in connection with a federal antitrust litigation alleging that the company participated in an international bid rigging and market allocation conspiracy
• Representation of several immigrant families and a New Jersey law school in connection with litigations pending in federal court in Newark related to a pattern of unconstitutional home raids being conducted by federal immigration agents