Mike Crisp has nearly twenty years of courtroom experience as a trial attorney in complex federal court litigation involving banking, capital markets, manufacturing, healthcare and technology. He represents banks, servicers, special servicers, investment banks and non-financial businesses such as integrated healthcare systems and manufacturers in trials and arbitrations related to asset securitization, bankruptcy, patents, insurance coverage, post-closing purchase price disputes, class actions, product liability, accounting practices, breach of contract and commercial torts. Mr. Crisp also represents compliance departments, boards of directors and board committees in connection with the investigation of financial matters including fraud, regulatory compliance and whistle-blower allegations.
Mr. Crisp has served as national trial counsel and as coordinating counsel in multi-district litigation in product liability matters involving construction materials, consumable products and consumer products implicated in significant property damage, deaths and serious bodily injury. He has also represented clients in numerous commercial arbitrations in the United States and Europe under the Rules of the American Arbitration Association, the International Court of Arbitration of the International Chamber of Commerce and the International Institute for Conflict Prevention and Resolution.
Mr. Crisp has substantial experience in alternative and fixed fee billing while representing corporate plaintiffs and defendants, early case assessment, and other innovative litigation solutions designed to reduce the cost of complex litigation and he is frequently asked to speak on these topics. He has appeared as a legal commentator on CNN to discuss the credit crisis and he has been quoted in numerous publications regarding such matters as the government takeover of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and litigation arising out of the failure of financial firms. From 2007 through the end of 2010, Mr. Crisp was the leader of the firm’s business litigation practice group with responsibility for managing the practice in the firm’s U.S. offices. In 2009, he relocated from Atlanta to the firm’s New York office to lead the effort to expand the firm’s New York litigation practice.
