Mr. Dell has more than 25 years of experience as a trial and appellate lawyer who successfully resolves complex business disputes.  These include securities, accountants and auditors liability, commercial, real estate, insurance, ERISA, fiduciary and employment class actions and other lawsuits in federal and state courts.  He also has extensive experience in arbitrations and mediations (at FINRA, the AAA, JAMS and in other forums).  In addition, Mr. Dell represents clients in connection with investigations and enforcement proceedings before various federal and state agencies and self-regulatory organizations.  Although Mr. Dell most often represents defendants, he has obtained many seven-figure judgments or settlements for plaintiffs.

Mr. Dell’s recent representations include the defense of an accounting association against class action and other claims arising from the bankruptcy of Parmalat, with alleged losses exceeding $10 billion; the defense of hedge fund and other administrators and directors against class action and other claims for stock manipulation, death spiral financing and other wrongdoing; the defense of technology companies against claims for fraud and breach of contract; the defense of landlords against claims relating to withdrawals from the Mitchell-Lama program; the defense of a pension fund trustee against class actions claiming breach of fiduciary duty; the defense of accounting firms against claims by clients, third parties and liquidators of bankrupt companies for fraud, breach of fiduciary duty and negligence; the defense of a broker-dealer against class action and other claims of fraud and stock manipulation relating to stock loan trading; the defense of an accounting firm against class action and other claims arising from the collapse of a hedge fund; the defense of several broker-dealers in customer and other securities and derivatives related arbitrations before FINRA; the defense of underwriters in obtaining the dismissal of class actions arising from public offerings; the defense of insurance companies in RICO and fraud litigations; and the defense of various corporations and their officers and directors against securities fraud claims.

J.D., magna cum laude, Harvard Law School, 1978

• Associate Editorial Director, Harvard Law Review, 1977-1978
• Editor, Harvard Law Review, 1976-1977
  

B.A., with honors, Oxford University, Wadham College, 1975

Judge Stanley A. Weigel, U.S. District Court, Northern District of California, 1978 - 1979

District of Columbia, 1992
New York, 1979

U.S. Supreme Court, 1984

New York City Bar Association