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Jeffrey J. Wild is co-chair of the firm's Capital Markets Litigation group and Fiduciary Counseling & Litigation group. He has more than 20 years of experience in complex financial litigation and arbitration. Mr. Wild’s practice includes contract and fraud litigation, securities litigation (including litigation relating to CDO transactions), trust-and-estate litigation, employment litigation and a wide range of commercial litigation. He litigates in the state and federal courts of both New Jersey and New York. Mr. Wild is featured in the 2007 and 2008 editions of Chambers USA: America’s Leading Lawyers for Business; the 2007 edition of New Jersey Super Lawyers and the 2008 Super Lawyers, Corporate Counsel Edition.
Some examples of Mr. Wild’s litigation practice include the following:
- Tourneau - Mr. Wild handles major litigation matters for Tourneau, Inc., the largest watch company in the world. Mr. Wild’s most recent victory for Tourneau was to defeat a shareholders-derivative claim by winning both before the American Arbitration Association and in New York Supreme Court. Mr. Wild also represented Tourneau in a successful insurance litigation after Tourneau’s World Trade Center store was destroyed on 9/11, and Mr. Wild is currently representing Tourneau in a litigation against its former insurance consultants and brokers.
- CIT Group v. Credit Suisse - Mr. Wild successfully represented three publicly-traded companies, CIT Group, PSEG Resources and Dana Corporation, in litigation against Credit Suisse relating to investments in a contemplated $1.5 billion in CDO transactions. This included: (1) winning an international arbitration against Credit Suisse, which was represented by Sullivan & Cromwell; and (2) in a related case in New York Supreme Court, securing the dismissal of all of Credit Suisse’s counterclaims with prejudice. Mr. Wild has also represented, and continues to represent, CIT Group in other high-stakes litigation matters.
- NSB Group - Mr. Wild is lead litigator in the United States for NSB Group, a publicly traded company based in Quebec that provides point-of-sale software worldwide. Mr. Wild has handled and continues to handle NSB’s federal-court litigation of all kinds.
- HUBCO/Hudson United Bank - Mr. Wild represented this publicly-traded bank in litigation against a former bank officer who claimed to be a whistle-blower. Mr. Wild won key motions in the United States Bankruptcy Court For the District of New Jersey, resulting in the officer having no compensable damages and therefore dismissing all claims.
- In re: Able Laboratories - Mr. Wild opposed a motion for class certification, under the New Jersey Consumer Fraud Act, of claims by a putative class alleging fraud in connection with the sale of over $200 million of generic drugs. The Court declined to grant class certification at the initial hearing and, shortly thereafter, a settlement was reached that avoided class-action certification.
Mr. Wild is a member of the firm’s Commercial Litigation Practice Group, and also the Chair of the firm’s Fiduciary Litigation Practice Group. In addition, Mr. Wild is on the Board of Trustees of the American Civil Liberties Union of New Jersey and donates time to pro bono matters. He has been interviewed by publications such as the New Jersey Law Journal and the Metropolitan Corporate Counsel about his pro bono victories, including a landmark settlement against an adoption agency that resulted in an admission of HIV-positive discrimination, and his securing the release of a man who had been held in “debtor’s prison” for years because of a failure to pay a civil judgment.
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Columbia University School of Law
(J.D., 1985),
Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar
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Cornell University
(B.A., 1982),
With distinction in all subjects
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New Jersey
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New York
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District of Columbia
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1986,
U.S. District Court, District of Columbia
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1986,
U.S. Court of Appeals, Third Circuit
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1986,
U.S. District Court, District of New Jersey
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1986,
U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York
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1986,
U.S. District Court, Eastern District of New York
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- Member, American Bar Association
- Member, Board of Arbitrators, Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FIRA), formerly NASD Regulation, Inc.
- New Jersey State Bar Association
- Essex County Bar Association
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