Gordon Rees Scully Mansukhani has named Partners Peter Siachos and Kendra Canape the new National Practice Group Leaders of the firm's Commercial Litigation Practice Group.
Siachos is an experienced trial attorney who has taken 74 cases to verdict. He is also the co-chair of the firm's Class Action practice group and is the Managing Partner of the firm's Charleston office. He handles class action and individual matters nationwide before federal and state trial and appellate courts, administrative and regulatory agencies, and domestic and international arbitration panels. In addition to handling general commercial litigation matters, Siachos has a robust franchise law practice defending and prosecuting cases for franchisors, including intellectual property claims. He defends scores of companies, large and small, in banking, credit union, financial services, and consumer law matters. He also routinely handles product liability claims, most of which are science and expert-heavy and some designated for multidistrict litigation. "I am thrilled to have the opportunity to lead the 650-attorney-strong Gordon Rees' Commercial Litigation Practice Group," said Siachos. "With a deep bench of subject matter expertise spread across ten subgroups, our practice group is poised to handle any type of commercial litigation issue nationwide."
Canape concentrates her practice in securities litigation, securities regulation, and employment law in the firm's Orange County and New York offices. She also serves as the Chair of the Securities Litigation practice group at the firm. Canape is an experienced litigator and trial counsel. She draws upon that experience to counsel financial services firms and their employees in enforcement and individual actions, class and mass action litigation, and arbitrations before the securities industry's self-regulatory organizations. In representing financial services firms and their employees, Ms. Canape has tried dozens of cases nationwide and has defended hundreds of customer claims and regulatory investigations before the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC"), FINRA, AAA, and other arbitral forums. I am honored to serve as co-practice group leader of the Commercial Litigation Practice Group," said Canape. "Peter and I look forward to working with this talented group of litigators to lead the firm to new heights."
Gordon & Rees has a national reputation for successfully managing, resolving and trying multi-party and complex claims in every substantive area of commercial law. Our lawyers have tried or arbitrated bet-the-company cases in nearly every industry and profession. Gordon & Rees lawyers are regularly in court, try cases frequently, and have a track record of unprecedented endurance for handling multiple consecutive complex matters and lengthy trials. Our reputation enables clients to send the strong message that they are unshaken by the possibility of trial. Our broad range of industry experience gives us the expert knowledge to successfully present the most complicated cases to judges, juries, and mediators alike.
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