Deborah Sands

DEBORAH SANDS focuses her practice on securities and shareholder litigation.

Debbie received her B.A., magna cum laude, from Cornell University and her J.D. from the University of Pennsylvania Law School, where she was an articles editor for the University of Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutional Law. She also received a Certificate in Management from the Wharton School. While attending law school, Debbie served as an intern for The Honorable Katherine Polk Failla of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York and an extern for the United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.

Debbie’s recent experience has included representation of:

• Leo Investments, an indirect subsidiary of a PRC public company, in litigation relating to its investment in a private fund invested exclusively in the common stock of SpaceX (pending).
• A major financial institution in New York Supreme Court, Commercial Division, in a lawsuit involving claims under the Securities Act of 1933.
• Texas Pacific Land Corp. in obtaining a complete trial victory in expedited proceedings in the Delaware Court of Chancery concerning activist stockholders’ breaches of a voting commitment and standstill in a stockholders’ agreement, followed by an affirmance on appeal to the Delaware Supreme Court.
• CytoDyn Inc. and its directors in obtaining a complete defense judgment after an expedited trial in the Delaware Court of Chancery in a case of first impression arising from the directors’ rejection of a nomination of potential directors for failure to provide information required by the company’s advance notice bylaw.
• Multiple broker-dealers in more than 20 FINRA arbitration proceedings.

Debbie maintains an active pro bono practice concentrated on assisting clients in immigration matters.