Michele A. Coffey

Partner

Michele A. Coffey is a partner in Morgan Lewis's Litigation Practice. Ms. Coffey's practice focuses on securities, financial services, and other commercial litigation, including SEC, NASD, and other regulatory enforcement matters.

In the securities area, Ms. Coffey regularly defends clients in SEC and SRO enforcement actions and proceedings and in state and federal class action and derivative securities litigation. She represents mutual fund advisers and distributors, broker-dealers and individuals, officers, and directors. She most recently defended mutual fund clients in directed brokerage, market timing, and gifts and gratuities enforcement actions, as well as broker-dealers, hedge funds, and individuals in regulatory investigations into market manipulation, fixed income markups, options trading, front running, and short selling.

Ms. Coffey's commercial litigation matters include the three-month trial of antitrust claims asserted by the United States Department of Justice against an international payment card association. (U.S.A. v. Visa U.S.A. et al., S.D.N.Y.) In the state courts, Ms. Coffey tried a premises liability case involving a multiple shooting incident in a fast food franchise. She has a comprehensive background and in-depth knowledge of products liability law.

Ms. Coffey is Deputy Office Managing Partner and head of the Litigation Practice in New York. She is a member of the New York Office Management Committee and the Firm's Legal Personnel Committee and serves as Chair of the New York Office Professional Evaluation Committee and Vice Chair of the Office Recruiting Committee.

Ms. Coffey is admitted to practice in New York.