Craig J. Bergman
Represents clients in a variety of civil litigation matters, including complex commercial disputes, securities and shareholder litigation, and mass tort actions.
Craig represents clients in a wide range of civil litigation matters in both federal and state courts nationwide, including complex commercial and contractual disputes, securities class actions, M&A-related litigation, shareholder derivative suits and mass tort actions. He also has extensive arbitration experience before a variety of U.S. and international tribunals.
Craig has represented financial institutions, fintech companies, telecommunications and media companies, biopharmaceutical companies, utility providers, professional services firms, defense contractors and state-owned entities, among others. He also maintains an active pro bono practice, with a focus on representing individuals seeking asylum in the United States.
Experience highlights
- Won dismissal with prejudice of all claims against Eletrobras in securities litigation seeking to enjoin company’s announced privatization and enforce over $5 billion in alleged debt obligations
- Obtained dismissal of state and federal securities class actions against XP Inc. and its directors, officers and shareholders, concerning the company’s U.S. IPO
- Won dismissal of federal and state securities class actions against X Financial and certain directors and officers arising out of the company’s U.S. IPO
- Secured dismissal of securities class action on behalf of the underwriters of Velocity Financial’s IPO
- Obtained dismissal of parallel state and federal securities litigation on behalf of the underwriters of Arlo Technologies’ IPO
- Represent Comcast in breach of contract litigation with Nexstar Media and Mission Broadcasting concerning carriage of broadcast television station
- Represent Reata Pharmaceuticals in federal securities litigation arising out of SEC disclosures and public statements concerning clinical drug trials
- Represent underwriters of initial and secondary public offerings of NextCure in federal securities litigation
- Successfully represented Morgan Stanley in multiple litigations relating to residential mortgage-backed securities
- Represent Con Edison in a variety of matters, including class actions concerning service classification and billing practices and mass-action civil litigation and government investigations arising out of steam pipe ruptures in Manhattan in July 2018 and July 2007
- Represent terminal operations and stevedoring company in dispute arising from a fire that caused more than $100 million in alleged damage
- Won dismissal of federal WARN Act class action on behalf of General Dynamics Information Technology
- Represent a state-owned Brazilian bank in ICC arbitration against a French consulting firm relating to a joint venture
- Represented Roche Diagnostics Operations and Roche Diagnostics Hematology in a contract dispute in Delaware Chancery Court relating to earn-out provisions in a merger agreement
Education
- Order of the Coif
- Editor, Virginia Law Review
- summa cum laude
- Phi Beta Kappa
Clerkships
Professional history
- Counsel, 2020-present
- Davis Polk, 2012-2016 and 2017-present
Qualifications and admissions
- State of New York
- U.S. Court of Appeals, Second Circuit
- U.S. District Court, E.D. New York
- U.S. District Court, S.D. New York