Bio

Shireen Barday is a litigation partner in the New York office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher. Ms. Barday has served as a principal in a wide range of complex commercial litigation matters, ranging from fiduciary duties to fraud. Ms. Barday has extensive experience litigating solvency as well as matters involving one or more controlling shareholders. Ms. Barday regularly appears in Delaware and other courts around the country where she has represented directors, officers and issuers in class action and other litigation arising from mergers and other corporate transactions. Ms. Barday earned her Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from Barnard College, her Master of Arts in Political Science from the City University of New York and her Juris Doctor from Stanford Law School, where both her Note and Comment were selected for publication by the Stanford Law Review. Following her graduation from Stanford Law School, Ms. Barday clerked for the Honorable Colleen McMahon of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York and then for the Honorable Rosemary S. Pooler of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.