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Douglas W. Henkin is a partner in the Litigation Department of Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy LLP. He concentrates primarily on federal and state court securities and complex commercial litigation, as well as regulatory matters.
Mr. Henkin has extensive experience working with complex securities and other financial products, having represented broker-dealers and securities purchasers in litigations concerning, for example, collateralized mortgage obligations and other mortgage-backed securities, structured notes, convertible debentures, and high-yield short-term notes. He has represented defendants in federal and state securities class and derivative actions, appearing on behalf of broker-dealers, underwriters, issuers, and officers and directors. Mr. Henkin also has extensive experience with litigation involving commodities, commodities derivatives, and insurance sales practices.
Mr. Henkin represented one of the world's largest banking institutions in a case concerning high-yield short-term notes, one of the world's largest securities firms in connection with the various Orange County litigations, and one of the world's largest electronics companies in a patent dispute concerning computer displays. Mr. Henkin has also represented the New York Stock Exchange in several important cases concerning the SRO disciplinary and arbitration systems and the relationships between self-regulatory organizations. Mr. Henkin also represented a leading high technology company in its successful defense of a securities class action brought after it was required to restate its financials following a change in accounting methodology mandated by the SEC.
Mr. Henkin received his S.B. in Theoretical Mathematics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and his J.D. cum laude from the University of Pennsylvania Law School, where he was an Editor of the Law Review. Mr. Henkin clerked for Judge William J. Holloway of the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit.
He has been listed in the 2007 edition of Chambers USA as well as Legal 500 for Litigation and is the author of "Judicial Estoppel: Beating Shields Into Swords and Back Again," 139 U. PA. L. PEV. 1711 (1991). | 