Shawn Patrick Regan
Shawn Patrick Regan represents clients in their most vexing and high-stakes business disputes, including securities litigation, government and regulatory investigations, cross-border litigation, and putative class and mass actions involving contracts, torts, fraud, and other common law and statutory claims. He is president of the Federal Bar Council, the premier bar organization of the federal courts within the Second Circuit, and has argued and served as lead counsel of record in numerous successful appeals, including before several US Circuit Courts of Appeals and the New York State Court of Appeals and the US Supreme Court.
Collaborating with clients and other outside counsel, Shawn develops strategies to utilize each team member's skills, attributes, and experience to bring the most effective and efficient result for clients across numerous industries.
Shawn has experience representing clients in the electric power generation, oil, coal, and renewables industries and is routinely at the forefront of litigation related to climate change in numerous state and federal trial courts, appellate courts, and the US Supreme Court.
He represents public and private media, sports and entertainment companies, banks, real estate investment trusts (REITs), mortgage companies, and executives in complex civil litigation, government investigations, and securities fraud suits. He also counsels institutions on litigation avoidance. In addition, Shawn represents and advises companies in the data and technology industries in arbitration, investigations, and coordinating licensing and transactions.
Shawn is also sought out by consumer product and retail companies, ranging from established brands to small startups, to represent them in matters of consumer fraud, commercial contract litigation, lease and property development disputes, government investigations, IP litigation, and employment and ERISA class actions.
Shawn maintains a diverse pro bono and public service practice that has included amicus briefs before the US Supreme Court on securities law and other issues; political asylum for persecuted refugees; prosecution under the Hague Convention on International Child Abduction; and, by appointment of a Southern District of New York judge, representation of an elderly woman who gained unencumbered return of her property after the loss of her home in a fraudulent scheme operating for 20 years.
Prior to joining Morgan Lewis, Shawn led the corporate and securities and government investigations practices of another international law firm.
