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Mary C. Gill

Partner


With over 27 years of experience in securities litigation, financial services litigation and complex transaction-related litigation, Mary Gill has been lead counsel in cases pending across the country, including numerous trials and arbitrations. She is highly experienced in representing companies and financial institutions and their officers and directors in investigations and enforcement actions by the Securities and Exchange Commission, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation and other regulatory agencies. Mary was also a member of the executive committee that led the Enron investigation on behalf of the Bankruptcy Examiner. Mary Gill is the senior woman in the Securities Litigation Group.

Mary is the chair of the State Bar of Georgia Business Court Committee and is also a member of the State Bar of Georgia Business Litigation Subcommittee. She has served as an adjunct professor at Emory University School of Law and on the faculty of the National Intensive Trial Advocacy Programs sponsored by Emory University School of Law, Benjamin N.

Representative Experience

  • Lead trial counsel for the founder and former CEO of a public health care company in a securities and accounting fraud trial which resulted in a defense verdict after a five week trial.
  • Counsel to Fortune 500 company under investigation for option backdating and related derivative and class action litigation.
  • Successful defense of public telecommunications company in litigation challenging pending $800 million merger.


Publications
2010
"Strategic Considerations in Internal Investigations—An Overview," Securities Litigation: Forms and Analysis, West Publishing Group, 2010.
July 2010
"Claims Against Bank Officers and Directors Arising From the Financial Crisis," The Review of Banking & Financial Services, Vol. 26, No. 7, July 2010.
February 19, 2010
“Déjà Vu All Over Again: Preparing for Claims Against Bank Officers and Directors,” Program Materials: Banking and Finance Law Seminar, State Bar of Georgia Headquarters, February 19, 2010.

Mary C. Gill

One Atlantic Center
1201 West Peachtree Street
Atlanta, GA 30309-3424
Phone: 404-881-7276
Fax: 404-253-8192

Education

  • Emory University
    (J.D., 1983)
  • Indiana University
    (B.A., 1980)

Admitted to Practice

  • Georgia