Amy K. Nemetz

Counsel
Business Litigation
New York +1 212 790 5305
Experience
  • Skillz Platform Inc. in false advertising and unfair business practices litigation against its competitor from pleadings through trial in the Southern District of New York, resulting in the largest Lanham Act verdict ever
  • Chelsea Hotel Owner, Ira Drukier, Richard Born, and Sean MacPherson in an ongoing § 1983 action against the City of New York for more than $100 million in damages arising from the City’s wrongful regulatory reclassification of the iconic Hotel Chelsea and revocation of its valid permit, six years into the building’s redevelopment
  • A major pharmaceutical company in five bellwether jury trials in state and federal court in federal multi-district litigation and coordinated state products liability actions, resulting in favorable judgments
  • Nonprofit voting rights organizations in leading successful Voting Rights Act litigation in EDNY that resulted in the creation of a majority-minority voting district
  • Liquidators of Madoff feeder fund defending a $300 million breach of contract litigation in SDNY
  • Liquidators of Madoff feeder fund plaintiffs in 18 coordinated clawback actions seeking $6 billion from over 60 defendants in SDNY Bankruptcy Court
  • Student loan borrowers in nationwide class actions against the loan servicer and the U.S. Department of Education for misrepresentations and mishandling of a public service loan forgiveness program, respectively. Settlement of the loan servicer litigation was upheld, over objections, by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Bio

Amy Nemetz is a trial-focused civil litigator with extensive experience in complex commercial and financial disputes, products liability, securities litigation, and arbitrations.  She has represented financial services and investment firms, pharmaceutical, media, and energy companies, and high net worth individuals as both plaintiffs and defendants.  Amy was recently recognized by Best Lawyers on its Ones to Watch list.

Amy graduated magna cum laude from New York University School of Law in 2014. She graduated magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from New York University College of Arts and Sciences with a degree in History, receiving Highest Honors.