Sameer Advani is a partner in Willkie Farr & Gallagher’s Litigation Department and serves as Vice-Chair of the firm’s Business and Corporate Litigation Practice Group. He regularly represents clients in connection with a broad range of complex commercial disputes and appears in federal and state courts throughout the country, with a particular focus on mergers and acquisitions litigation, federal securities class actions, and shareholder derivative claims. His practice also includes litigating matters in bankruptcy court and under various foreign and domestic arbitration rules. He has particular experience in matters with an international dimension, having represented a number of clients in litigation that involved parallel ongoing proceedings in North America, Europe and Asia. Sameer also has an active practice counseling corporate boards, special committees and management on issues of corporate governance and fiduciary duties.