Maseeh Moradi

MASEEH MORADI represents companies and their directors and officers in a broad range of complex, high-stakes litigation, with significant experience in securities class actions, shareholder derivative suits, and related investigations. He is also a firm leader in directors and officers (D&O) liability insurance, recognized for his sophisticated approach to policy interpretation, coverage counseling, and renewal strategy, which he applies in advising clients across litigation, transactional, and restructuring matters.

Maseeh is known for his calm leadership in moments of crisis and for developing and executing creative case strategies to navigate difficult factual, legal, and procedural issues. He has substantial experience at every stage of litigation, from pre-suit strategy and discovery through successful motion practice, expert proceedings, and trial, across a broad range of substantive areas.

Maseeh earned his law degree magna cum laude from Harvard Law School. He clerked for the Honorable Jerome A. Holmes of the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit and the Honorable John Z. Lee, then of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois. In addition to his practice at Sidley, Maseeh is an adjunct faculty member at Northwestern Pritzker School of Law, where he teaches in the school’s trial advocacy program.

Maseeh’s recent representations include:

• A major consumer health company and a leading healthcare company in a federal securities class action arising from the consumer health company’s IPO and a subsequent exchange offer.
• A global healthcare company in a federal securities class action in district court and appellate proceedings.
• Advising a Fortune 500 financial services company on the renewal of its D&O insurance program.
• A Fortune 50 pharmacy company in federal and state-law trademark litigation, achieving a favorable settlement.
• A leading private credit firm in connection with a sensitive commercial dispute involving consumer finance receivables.
• A global healthcare company in a False Claims Act shareholder demand investigation.
• A global investment firm and its affiliated market maker in trade secret and non-compete litigation, including obtaining a favorable TRO.
• A major healthcare company in opioid-related shareholder derivative litigation in state and federal courts.
• An industrial sterilization company in mass tort litigation.

Maseeh serves as chair of Sidley’s Chicago Associate Inclusion Council and as a board member of the Harvard Law Society of Illinois. He also serves as adjunct faculty at Northwestern Pritzker School of Law.

In addition to his commercial practice, Maseeh maintains an active pro bono practice and has represented incarcerated individuals before the U.S. Supreme Court and other federal courts.