Robert Sidorsky is a shareholder with Butzel Long, practicing in the firm’s New York office. He has practiced for twenty-five years in the area of complex commercial litigation. His practice is concentrated in the areas of accountants’ liability, securities litigation, director and officer liability, and bankruptcy-related matters. Mr. Sidorsky graduated from Columbia Law School (J.D., 1982) where he was Managing Editor of the Columbia Journal of Transnational Law (1982), and Harvard College (B.A., magna cum laude, 1979).
Mr. Sidorsky has represented corporations, lenders, bankruptcy trustees, governmental agencies, investors, and accounting firms in a number of high profile cases arising out of fraudulent financial reporting. He has also acted as litigation and conflict counsel in significant bankruptcy matters. He has represented both domestic and international clients in a wide variety of commercial litigation, including claims of officer and director liability, securities fraud, fraudulent conveyance claims, lender liability, RICO, breach of contract and tortious interference, and misappropriation of trade secrets.
Robert Sidorsky is a shareholder with Butzel Long, practicing in the firm’s New York office. He has practiced for twenty-five years in the area of complex commercial litigation. His practice is concentrated in the areas of accountants’ liability, securities litigation, director and officer liability, and bankruptcy-related matters. Mr. Sidorsky graduated from Columbia Law School (J.D., 1982) where he was Managing Editor of the Columbia Journal of Transnational Law (1982), and Harvard College (B.A., magna cum laude, 1979).
Mr. Sidorsky has represented corporations, lenders, bankruptcy trustees, governmental agencies, investors, and accounting firms in a number of high profile cases arising out of fraudulent financial reporting. He has also acted as litigation and conflict counsel in significant bankruptcy matters. He has represented both domestic and international clients in a wide variety of commercial litigation, including claims of officer and director liability, securities fraud, fraudulent conveyance claims, lender liability, RICO, breach of contract and tortious interference, and misappropriation of trade secrets.
Mr. Sidorsky’s publications include: “Edge Act Enables National Banks to Invoke Federal Jurisdiction Over Suits Involving International Banking or Financial Operations,” The Banking Law Journal, November/December 2007 (co-author); “Assessing the Risks of Accounting Fraud,” Commercial Lending Review, November-December 2006; “Standing to Sue Under Rule 10b-5; A Fresh Look at the New Investment Doctrine,” Securities Law Regulation Journal, Summer 2001 (co-author); “The Independent Auditor’s Consideration of Fraud Following the Reform Act,” New York Law Journal, (reprinted in Securities Reform Acts Litigation Reporter), January 24, 1997; and “The Auditor’s Duty to Blow the Whistle Under the Litigation Reform Act,” New York Law Journal (reprinted in Securities Reform Acts Litigation Reporter), February 9, 1996.
Mr. Sidorsky was the Chair of “Legal Risks for Accountants: Managing Exposure in a Challenging Market,” the Incisive Media Conference held in December 2008, at which he presented “Litigation Risks: Update on Legal Developments.” His speaking engagements include: “Let He Whose Executives Were Without Sin Cast the First Stone: Using Management Wrongdoing to Bar Suits by Corporate Plaintiffs and Debtors,” panelist, New York State Bar Association 2009 Annual Meeting (Commercial and Federal Litigation Section), New York, New York, January 28, 2009; “Accounting Fraud Case Studies,” AICPA/BAI Bank Financial Executives Conference, May 2006 and “Pre-Trial Discovery in the United States,” Winter Seminar, Union International des Avocats, March 2006.
Mr. Sidorsky has been a member of the Board of Advisors of the Securities Reform Act Litigation Reporter and is a member of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York, New York State Bar Association and American Bar Association.