Nikolaus Williams
Lawyers
Represents clients in a wide variety of civil matters, including complex commercial disputes, securities and shareholder litigation, and antitrust actions.
Nikolaus has extensive experience representing companies and individuals in a wide variety of civil litigation matters, including securities class actions, shareholder disputes, complex commercial disputes, antitrust enforcement actions and commercial arbitrations.
He has represented individuals and companies from a range of industries, including finance, life sciences, technology and manufacturing, and he has practiced in a variety of jurisdictions at both the trial and appellate levels.
Experience
- Won trial victory on behalf of former executives and directors against LG Electronics in Delaware Chancery Court
- Represented Spectrum Brands in connection with the DOJ’s failed effort to enjoin on antitrust grounds the sale of Spectrum’s hardware and home improvement business to ASSA ABLOY
- Representing large technology company in securities litigation in California federal court, including defeat of preliminary injunction motion
- Represents leading utility services company in securities and derivative litigation in the Northern District of Illinois
- Won complete dismissal of all claims against Roche in securities litigation in New Jersey federal court
- Won complete dismissal of securities claims against Uniti Group in Delaware federal court; dismissal affirmed by the Third Circuit
- Represented IHS Markit in a joint venture dispute in Delaware Chancery Court
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Education
J.D., New York University School of Law
- magna cum laude
B.S., Civil Engineering, University of Virginia
- with honors
Clerkships
Law Clerk, Hon. Naomi Reice Buchwald, U.S. District Court, S.D. New York, 2016-2017
Qualifications and admissions
- State of New York
- U.S. Court of Appeals, Second Circuit
- U.S. Court of Appeals, Third Circuit
- U.S. District Court, E.D. New York
- U.S. District Court, S.D. New York