Regina M. Alter is a shareholder in Butzel Long’s New York office. She concentrates her practice on wide-ranging complex commercial litigation and dispute resolution matters in areas including financial services, employment, intellectual property, real estate, securities, and bankruptcy. Representative matters include:
- Representing multiple hedge funds in their claims to enforce anti-dilution adjustment and redemption provisions contained in stock warrants;
- Successfully litigated and negotiated settlement on behalf of a former State Workers’ Compensation Fund against a major bank for breaches of contract and fiduciary duty arising from its management of a securities lending program;
- Successfully negotiated a settlement on behalf of a trustee in a New York State Surrogate’s Court litigation, involving $100 million trust, with respect to claims of breach of fiduciary duties;
Regina M. Alter is a shareholder in Butzel Long’s New York office. She concentrates her practice on wide-ranging complex commercial litigation and dispute resolution matters in areas including financial services, employment, intellectual property, real estate, securities, and bankruptcy. Representative matters include:
- Representing multiple hedge funds in their claims to enforce anti-dilution adjustment and redemption provisions contained in stock warrants;
- Successfully litigated and negotiated settlement on behalf of a former State Workers’ Compensation Fund against a major bank for breaches of contract and fiduciary duty arising from its management of a securities lending program;
- Successfully negotiated a settlement on behalf of a trustee in a New York State Surrogate’s Court litigation, involving $100 million trust, with respect to claims of breach of fiduciary duties;
- Successfully litigated and negotiated a settlement on behalf of a corporation with respect to enforcing a restrictive covenant against two former employees;
- Successfully defended a litigation and negotiated a settlement on behalf of a Chinese company with respect to a claim of breach of contract arising from a failed acquisition; and
- Successfully negotiated a settlement on behalf of medical facility against United Healthcare in an investigation concerning allegations of miscoding of claims.
Ms. Alter is a graduate of The Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law (J.D., cum laude, 1996) where she served on the Cardozo Law Review. She also served as an Alexander Fellow, through which she performed a full-time externship with the Hon. Shira A. Scheindlin, S.D.N.Y. She earned her undergraduate degree in Political Science/International Relations, with minors in Art History and Russian, from New York University (B.A., cum laude, 1993) where she was a Founders' Day Honor Scholar.
Prior to joining Butzel Long, Ms. Alter was of counsel to Dreier LLP, and an associate with White and Case LLP and Schulte Roth & Zabel LLP.
Ms. Alter is fluent in Russian and Hebrew.