Victor J. Pinedo represents clients in complex commercial litigation and other business disputes.
Victor helps clients navigate complex disputes with a practical approach focused on the legal and business issues at stake. He has experience developing case strategy, briefing dispositive and discovery motions, managing complex discovery, preparing witnesses and advising clients throughout litigation, arbitration and investigations.
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His approach is also informed by his clerking experience in New York state trial and appellate courts and the Southern District of New York, where he gained insight into how courts approach complex legal and procedural issues.
Representative Experience
- Defended multinational energy company in government-initiated state securities litigation and related investigation, which concluded with a complete defense verdict after bench trial.*
- Counseled an asbestos settlement trust in bankruptcy litigation concerning contract interpretation and trust management, including advising on expert opinions and reports; the matter resulted in a post-trial, court-approved $1.325 billion payment to the client.*
- Represented investor asserting direct and derivative claims against managing member of real estate investment company, defeating multiple motions to dismiss and favorably resolving discovery disputes.*
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- Represented a multinational company in complex licensing dispute valued at $2 billion by preparing pre- and post-hearing briefing, advising on expert submissions and preparing witnesses for live testimony.*
- Advised individual in FCPA investigation that closed without government action.*
- Defended chairman and CEO in shareholder class action challenging a going private M&A transaction.*
- Advised individual in litigation challenging authority to sell a Manhattan office building.*
- Represented a foreign sovereign state in fraud litigation arising from alleged manipulation of the currency market.*
*Prior firm experience
Professional Highlights
- Serves as an adjunct professor of legal research and writing at Fordham University School of Law.
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- Publications
- “Let’s Keep It Civil: An Evaluation of Civil Disabilities, a Call for Reform, and Recommendations to Reduce Recidivism,” Cornell Law Review, 2017. Author.
- “Embracing the Excluded: Using Mandatory Inclusionary Zoning to Affirmatively Further Fair Housing in St. Louis,” Cornell Journal of Law and Public Policy, 2017. Author.
- Speaking Engagements
- “Disclosure & Discovery, including E-Discovery, and Litigating Cases Efficiently,” New York State Bar Association Commercial Litigation Academy CLE Program, 2024. Panelist.
Education
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J.D., Cornell Law School, 2017
B.A./B.S., Washington University in St. Louis, 2013
Admissions
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New York
Clerkships
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Principal Law Clerk to Hon. Margaret A. Chan, New York State Supreme Court, Appellate Division, First Department (2025–2026) and Commercial Division, New York County (2023–2025)
Judicial Law Clerk to Hon. Nelson S. Román, U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, 2019–2020