Steve Collins is a partner practicing in the firm’s Litigation & Trial Practice Group and Securities Litigation Group. His practice focuses on (1) securities litigation, investigations, and enforcement proceedings, (2) transaction-based litigation, and (3) financial services litigation, as the principal components of a commercial litigation practice:
- Securities Litigation and Investigations: Representing clients in SEC, stock exchange, and state securities investigations and enforcement proceedings, as well as internal investigations, arising primarily from allegations of accounting fraud and insider trading. Also representing clients in defense of shareholder class actions under the federal securities laws.
- Transaction-Based Litigation: Representing purchasers and sellers in disputes arising out of mergers and acquisitions, including injunctions, purchase price determination disputes, post-closing adjustment disputes, earn-out disputes, indemnification claims, and securities and other fraud.
- Financial Services Litigation: Representing financial institutions in a wide range of disputes, including letters of credit/international transactions, embezzlement, check kiting, mergers and acquisitions, governmental investigations, shareholder class actions, lender liability, checks/bank deposits and collections, consumer class actions, and fraud.
During 2002-2003, Mr. Collins played a central role on the team of lawyers that conducted the bankruptcy examination of Enron Corp. Among other responsibilities, he served as: co-leader of the teams that investigated and reported on nine of Enron’s financial institutions; member of the team that investigated and reported on Enron’s directors and senior officers; and advisor to the team that investigated and reported on Enron’s attorneys.
Steve Collins is a partner practicing in the firm’s Litigation & Trial Practice Group and Securities Litigation Group. His practice focuses on (1) securities litigation, investigations, and enforcement proceedings, (2) transaction-based litigation, and (3) financial services litigation, as the principal components of a commercial litigation practice:
- Securities Litigation and Investigations: Representing clients in SEC, stock exchange, and state securities investigations and enforcement proceedings, as well as internal investigations, arising primarily from allegations of accounting fraud and insider trading. Also representing clients in defense of shareholder class actions under the federal securities laws.
- Transaction-Based Litigation: Representing purchasers and sellers in disputes arising out of mergers and acquisitions, including injunctions, purchase price determination disputes, post-closing adjustment disputes, earn-out disputes, indemnification claims, and securities and other fraud.
- Financial Services Litigation: Representing financial institutions in a wide range of disputes, including letters of credit/international transactions, embezzlement, check kiting, mergers and acquisitions, governmental investigations, shareholder class actions, lender liability, checks/bank deposits and collections, consumer class actions, and fraud.
During 2002-2003, Mr. Collins played a central role on the team of lawyers that conducted the bankruptcy examination of Enron Corp. Among other responsibilities, he served as: co-leader of the teams that investigated and reported on nine of Enron’s financial institutions; member of the team that investigated and reported on Enron’s directors and senior officers; and advisor to the team that investigated and reported on Enron’s attorneys.
Mr. Collins lectures from time to time on a variety of subjects, including SEC investigations, insider trading, lender liability, strategies for resolving transaction-based disputes, and the responsibilities of officers, directors, lawyers, and bankers in the post-Enron environment.
Mr. Collins also serves as General Counsel to Alston & Bird, and is a member of the firm’s management committee.
Mr. Collins is listed in The Best Lawyers in America and Super Lawyers magazine. He received his A.B., magna cum laude, and his J.D., cum laude, from Harvard University. He serves on the Board of Directors of the U.S. Fund for UNICEF, Southeast Regional Chapter.