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EXPERIENCE

Kristina鈥檚 significant representations include:

• Apple in securities class action litigation involving statements about its business in China.
• Goldman Sachs聽in its victories at the U.S. Supreme Court and Second Circuit in a billion-dollar, long-running securities class action involving the standard for disproving price impact in connection with class certification in a securities class action.
• Meta Platforms, Inc. before the U.S. Supreme Court in connection with securities litigation stemming from Cambridge Analytica鈥檚 misappropriation of Facebook user data.
• General Motors in securities class action litigation concerning Cruise, GM鈥檚 self-driving car subsidiary.
• Avis Budget Group in shareholder derivative litigation concerning a stock repurchase program.
• Snap, Inc., and several of its directors and executives, in a securities class action and related shareholder derivative actions concerning Snap鈥檚 preparation for Apple鈥檚 rollout of new privacy changes.
• Virtu Financial in numerous matters including:
  • the resolution of a federal lawsuit seeking to compel the SEC to comply with the Freedom of Information Act and release documents pertaining to the agency鈥檚 rulemaking process particularly regarding new rule proposals for retail stock order handling and execution; and
  • a securities class action regarding Virtu鈥檚 commitment to safeguarding client trading information, which resulted in an SEC investigation and enforcement action.
• The former chief accounting officer of Dentsply Sirona in the dismissal of all claims in a federal securities litigation arising out of a purported channel stuffing scheme and the subsequent restatement of Dentsply鈥檚 2022 financials. 聽
• Nicholas Schorsch, the founder and former CEO of American Realty Capital Properties (ARCP), in class action and individual securities fraud cases and derivative litigations concerning ARCP鈥檚 accounting restatement.
• A financial services and insurance company in an investigation by the SEC into sales and marketing practices.

Kristina鈥檚 experience representing fintech, digital asset and cryptocurrency clients includes:

• Coinbase Global聽in the dismissal of multiple separate putative class actions concerning the listing of certain algorithmic stablecoins.
• Ripple co-founder Chris Larsen in the dismissal of an SEC lawsuit brought against alleging that the defendants had altogether conducted over $2.6 billion in unregistered securities transactions through the sale of a digital asset, including a significant summary judgment victory in which the Southern District of New York held that the sale of a digital asset on public exchanges does not constitute the sale of unregistered securities.
• The board of directors of a digital currency company in an internal investigation regarding allegations of fraud.
• Numerous clients in connection with general corporate advice relating to cryptocurrency and blockchain related issues.

Before private practice, Kristina clerked for the Hon. Justice Jillian Mallon and Hon. Justice Alan MacKenzie of the High Court of New Zealand. She also received the prestigious Yvonne A.M. Smith Scholarship, which focuses on promoting women in leadership, and was a Lawrence A. Wien 麻豆视频 Responsibility Fellow at Columbia University. Her article, 鈥淓stoppel by Convention: The Position and Practical Consequences鈥� was published by the Victoria University of Wellington Law Review. She was also a winner of the Sir Richard Wild Cup for mooting at Victoria University of Wellington and was a grand finalist in the Australian Law Students鈥� Association National Moot in the same year.