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Jessica N. Djilani

Djilani_Jessica

Jessica N. Djilani

Counsel

New York + 1 212 295 6348

Jessica Djilani focuses her practice on securities litigation and regulatory enforcement matters. She has extensive experience representing companies in securities class actions, shareholder derivative suits, and disputes arising from mergers and acquisitions and restructurings. She also counsels companies and their officers and directors on corporate governance, compliance and reporting issues. 

Ms. Djilani also regularly represents corporations, financial institutions, and individuals in regulatory enforcement matters involving the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA), state attorneys general, and others. In addition, Ms. Djilani regularly oversees sensitive internal investigations across a wide variety of subject matters. 

Prior to joining WilmerHale, Ms. Djilani served as a counsel in the Securities Litigation practice group at another global law firm and has experience practicing in both New York and London. Ms. Djilani also clerked for the Honorable Shelley C. Chapman of the US Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York and served as a judicial intern for the Honorable Michael H. Dolinger of the US District Court for the Southern District of New York. She also served as an intern with the US Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of New York.

Experience

  • REPRESENTATIVE MATTERS

    • Represented a former executive of a bank in multiple securities class actions and regulatory enforcement matters concerning alleged fraudulent misstatements and omissions in the bank’s disclosures. 
    • Counseled a Board of Directors of a major public utilities company in connection with numerous shareholder demands related to a decrease in the value of securities allegedly caused by the public utility’s unsafe practices. 
    • Represented an S&P100 company in connection with an investigation by the SEC related to disclosures concerning the company’s supply chain. 
    • Represented broker-dealers, investment advisers and swap dealers in connection with the SEC and CFTC’s off-channel communications sweep into alleged recordkeeping violations. 
    • Represented a pharmaceutical company in litigation relating to the performance of a widely-marketed drug, brought by hedge fund holders of publicly-traded contingent value rights (CVRs) issued in the pharmaceutical company’s acquisition of another company.  
    • Represented a Cayman-incorporated life insurance company in a shareholder appraisal action in the Cayman Islands stemming from the company’s acquisition of another insurance company. 
    • Represented a real estate digital marketing company and its affiliates in a busted-deal adversary proceeding involving a break-up fee dispute arising out of a merger between the company and one of its competitors. 
    • Advised a major retail clothing brand and its debtor-affiliates on an out-of-court debt restructuring and represented the company in several lawsuits with creditors involving that restructuring. 
    • Represented the British administrators of a major investment bank in claims against the US-affiliate of such investment bank in Bankruptcy Court and advised on NY law issues relevant to proceedings in the English High Court of Justice.
    • Represented a major airline in a DOJ investigation concerning an alleged price-fixing conspiracy. 
    • Represented a casino in Macau in a lawsuit by hedge funds in litigation over the conversion of zero-coupon convertible bonds. 

Credentials

  • Education

    • JD, Brooklyn Law School, 2011

      cum laude

      Executive Notes & Comments Editor, Brooklyn Law Review

      Dennis J. Block International Business Law Fellow;  Moot Court Honor Society Appellate & Trial Divisions

    • BA, English, Hamilton College, 2006

      Dean’s List

      Arthur Levitt Scholar;  A. Waldron Stone Scholar;  Phi Sigma Iota Foreign Language Society

  • Admissions

    • New York

    • US District Court for the Eastern District of New York

    • US District Court for the Southern District of New York

  • Clerkships

    • The Hon. Shelley C. Chapman, US Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York, 2014 - 2015

Credentials

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