Charles A. Gilman is a member of Cahill Gordon & Reindel LLP's litigation practice group, and Co-Administrative Partner of the Firm.
Charlie has successfully tried and litigated a wide variety of public and private matters of size and import in federal and state courts throughout the country, both at trial and on appeal. He frequently leads complex and multidistrict litigation, often involving parallel federal and state class actions and governmental investigations and proceedings, and has managed numerous and sensitive special and independent committee investigations concerning corporate fraud and mismanagement, insider trading, foreign payments and accounting restatements. He represents our nation's largest law firms in complex litigation matters involving alleged violations of federal securities laws and professional responsibility. In 2013, Charlie tried a nationwide class action over a failed bond offering to a successful jury verdict. In 2012 and 2011, he won dismissals of several nationwide class actions and several large individual actions seeking billions of dollars for alleged securities fraud, and also recovered over $350 million for clients. During the credit crisis, Charlie counseled investment banks concerning over $200 billion in troubled credit transactions.
Charlie is recognized as one of New York's top trial lawyers by Chambers USA and Benchmark Litigation, and has been named among the top securities litigators in New York by The Legal 500.
In proposing Charlie as Special Master to oversee coordinated federal and state asbestos litigation involving several thousand pending cases, Judge Charles P. Sifton of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York stated, "[T]o move things along, [I have] contacted a gentleman who is here today, Charles A. Gilman, who as many of you may know is an experienced partner at the firm of Cahill Gordon, who has come to my attention and to the attention of a number of other judges in New York for his extraordinary talent in the resolution, settlement of differences in larger-scale litigation. He has, in my experience, shown himself to be remarkable in dealing with many moving parties and to be imaginative in coming up with techniques and devices [through] which a large number of people can see their own interest accommodated."
Charlie is a member of the Court-Appointed Mediation Panels of the United States District Courts for the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York, and is a Complex and Commercial Panel Arbitrator of the American Arbitration Association. He is pre-approved defense counsel on D&O liability insurance policies issued by the largest writer of such insurance, and is counsel to London market syndicates that write professional liability insurance for the world's largest law firms. Charlie is a frequent panelist and regularly teaches continuing legal education programs in securities litigation, legal malpractice, professional responsibility, and the attorney-client privilege and work product doctrines. He is a Life Fellow of the American Bar Foundation, and a Life Member of the Dean's Council of the University of Virginia School of Law.
Charlie joined Cahill in 1974, and was elected to the partnership in 1982. He is admitted to practice in New York and Washington, D.C., and in the Supreme Court of the United States and all thirteen Federal Circuit Courts of Appeals.
