Elissa has extensive experience representing clients in a wide range of sophisticated business litigation and arbitration, including in contract, fraud, business tort, securities, insurance/reinsurance, employment, trade secret and other commercial cases. The diverse array of matters on which she has worked range from representing a broker-dealer in a NYSE securities fraud arbitration arising out of a high-profile “pump-and-dump” scheme, to defending numerous insurance companies in a California bad faith and alter ego case concerning damage to contemporary artwork and representing reinsurers in a highly-publicized London arbitration of a $500 million coverage dispute arising out of the Sept 11th attack, to litigating securities fraud claims on behalf of mutual fund investors in a Thai steel mill, to representing a well-known American beer company in an antitrust trial brought by the State of New York and in a trademark trial concerning the term “ice beer.”
Elissa regularly appears in federal and state courts, as well as before arbitration panels in both the United States and in London.