Bethany Rezek is an associate in the firm’s Business Litigation Practice Group. Her practice focuses on complex commercial litigation, with a particular concentration in securities and shareholder litigation.
Ms. Rezek has represented clients in actions involving the federal and state securities laws, directors’ and officers’ fiduciary duties, and other matters of corporate governance. She also has experience in general commercial litigation. Representative matters in which Ms. Rezek has appeared in recent years include the following:
- Defense of a real estate investment company in securities class action alleging over $150 million in damages related to the internalization of the company’s outside advisor and the company’s public disclosures;
- Defense of a national bank in connection with claims related to the sale of auction rate securities;
- Represented Eclipsys Corporation and its directors in shareholder class actions challenging the $1.3 billion merger of Eclipsys and Allscripts; obtained a full dismissal with prejudice;
- Represented Cellu Tissue Holdings and its directors in connection with shareholder litigation challenging the merger of Cellu Tissue and Clearwater Paper Corporation.
Before joining King & Spalding, Ms. Rezek graduated, magna cum laude, from the Walter F. George School of Law at Mercer University. While in law school, Ms. Rezek was Administrative Editor of the Mercer Law Review, Chair of the Moot Court Board, and recipient of the Faculty Award to Outstanding Senior and the George Waldo Woodruff Award of Excellence given annually to the highest ranking graduate. She received her B.A. in political science, summa cum laude, from Mercer University.
Ms. Rezek is admitted to practice before the United States District Court for the Northern District of Georgia, the United States District Court for the Middle District of Georgia, the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit, and all Georgia state courts. She is a member of the State Bar of Georgia, the American Bar Association, and the Atlanta Bar Association.
