Laura King is a litigator with deep experience in complex commercial litigation and in regulatory and criminal investigations. She regularly represents venture capital and private equity firms in commercial disputes, including matters involving breach of contract, corporate governance, and fiduciary duty. She also has experience representing plaintiffs in class action litigation in the healthcare and digital assets industries.
Laura’s representative matters include:
- A venture capital firm and its founders in a long-running arbitration against former passive investors challenging a management-buyout transaction. The investors asserted claims for breach of contract, breach of fiduciary duty, and unjust enrichment. After a week-long hearing, the arbitration panel denied the investors’ claims in their entirety and ordered the investors to pay the defendants’ share of the arbitration costs, plus attorneys’ fees and expenses.
- A class of more than 100,000 Tennesseans who were improperly disenrolled from TennCare, Tennessee’s Medicaid program. In August 2024, she secured a sweeping ruling from the district court that TennCare’s notice and appeals processes violate the Constitution and federal law.
- The Litigation Oversight Committee to Genesis Global Holdco, LLC in two lawsuits against Genesis’s parent Digital Currency Group and its founder and affiliated entities and individuals, on behalf of creditors who are owed crypto assets worth approximately $2.2 billion. The complaints – one filed in the Delaware Court of Chancery and one in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court – include claims for breach of fiduciary duty, fraud, unjust enrichment, preference, and fraudulent transfer.
- Warburg Pincus and affiliates in securities and breach of contract litigation arising from an M&A transaction in federal court in Delaware.
- A putative class of cryptocurrency investors asserting market manipulation and antitrust claims alleging that Tether and Bitfinex falsely represented that USDT, a purported “stablecoin,” was fully backed by U.S. dollars as part of a market-manipulation scheme that inflated the price of bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies.
- A major pharmaceutical company in a DOJ FCPA investigation of allegedly corrupt sales of pharmaceuticals and medical devices.
- Investors in arbitrations involving valuation disputes and breach of contract claims.
Laura earned her J.D., cum laude, from Cornell Law. Prior to joining Selendy Gay, Laura served as a law clerk to the Honorable Richard C. Wesley of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and to the Honorable Paul A. Crotty of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.
