Andrew Nieman

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Discovery Attorney

New York
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Overview

Andrew Nieman focuses his practice on e-discovery within a variety of industries and company sizes that run the gamut from small start-ups to large, multibranch banks. Examples of clients with whom he has worked include a monoline insurer, a metals trader, an Asian investment adviser, investors in a brokerage firm, a regional power company and a European primary dealer bank, among others. He has performed discovery for matters that include underwriting fraud, market manipulation, mergers and acquisitions, reorganizations, class action lawsuits and bankruptcy proceedings.

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  • Performed discovery representing a monoline insurer in defense of an alleged scheme to commit underwriting fraud.
  • Trial preparation including deposition preparation and investigative discovery representing a metals trader in criminal allegations of spoofing and other market manipulation.
  • Represented investment banks in preparation for trials involving Residential Mortgage Backed Securities. Performed discovery in reviewing electronic documents, preparing witnesses for depositions, responding to interrogatories and creating chronologies of the securities offerings.
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Experience

  • Performed discovery representing a monoline insurer in defense of an alleged scheme to commit underwriting fraud.
  • Trial preparation including deposition preparation and investigative discovery representing a metals trader in criminal allegations of spoofing and other market manipulation.
  • Represented investment banks in preparation for trials involving Residential Mortgage Backed Securities. Performed discovery in reviewing electronic documents, preparing witnesses for depositions, responding to interrogatories and creating chronologies of the securities offerings.
  • Performed document review representing an Asian investment adviser in litigation with former executives involving options-based compensation.
  • Performed document review, including second level, privilege review and privilege log in the DOJ mandated reorganization of the New York State mental health system.
  • Performed document review in a class action suit lawsuit by clients of a remote receptionist service.
  • Performed document review in a bankruptcy proceeding representing investors against a brokerage firm and its affiliated REIT investment funds.
  • Performed document review involving investigations surrounding the alleged market manipulation in the agency bond market for a European primary dealer bank.
  • Performed document review in an investigation regarding the accounting treatment of renewable energy tax credits in connection with the acquisition of a regional power company.
  • Performed document review involving investigations surrounding the alleged bid rigging of the Treasury bond market for a European primary dealer bank.

Recognitions and Memberships

Admissions

  • New York

Education

  • J.D., Brooklyn Law School, 2006
  • B.A., University of Virginia, 1999