Sharon Nelles

Sharon Nelles, Managing Partner of Sullivan & Cromwell’s litigation group and a member of the Firm’s management committee, represents global corporations and financial institutions — and their boards — in every aspect of critical company matters, including civil litigation, enforcement proceedings and criminal and congressional investigations.  Sharon has been identified as one of the “Top 10 Practitioners in Securities” by Euromoney’s Benchmark Litigation, one of “25 Most Influential Women in Securities Law” by Law360, and has been ranked by Chambers USA for more than 15 years.  She has been named a “Litigator of the Year” by The American Lawyer, a “Distinguished Leader” by the New York Law Journal, and a Litigation Trailblazer by the National Law Journal.  Sharon has tried complex commercial cases in state and federal courts across the country.