Innovative Firm is Focused Exclusively on Serving Leading Investment Managers
Adopts Novel Approach to Partnering with Clients to Achieve Optimal Outcomes
Launched in September 2020, RKS LLP is a premier litigation boutique dedicated to serving the investment management industry. RKS’s clients include hedge funds, mutual funds, investment managers, private equity, and credit, real estate and structured finance funds.
Based in New York City, RKS attorneys have spent their careers maximizing returns for their clients. Over the last decade, the RKS team has secured more than one billion dollars in recoveries for investment managers and professional investors, and currently represents clients in major cases involving ten-figure claims. Their deep expertise in high-stakes litigation uniquely positions RKS to provide world-class counsel to clients on complex issues – on both the plaintiff and the defense side – with a deliberate focus on securities fraud, class action opt-outs, appraisal rights and fiduciary duty claims, activist matters, creditors’ rights, structured finance, as well as post-M&A and other portfolio company-related claims and litigations. From case conception through trial, RKS offers a unique operating and billing approach that ensures unsurpassed incentive alignment with its clients. Like the clients they serve, RKS’s value depends on the results they achieve.
Representative RKS clients include Alger, Appaloosa, AQR Capital Management, Balyasny Asset Management, Brahman Capital, Canyon Partners, Chatham Asset Management, Cohen & Steers, Discovery Capital Management, GMO, HBK Capital Management, Highfields Capital Management, Janus Henderson, Magnetar Capital, Orbis Investment Management, SAAMCo, Soroban Capital Partners, Starboard Value LP, and TIAA, in addition to other prominent investment managers.