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Amanda R. Giffin

Counsel

Amanda is a commercial litigator, counseling clients on a variety of complex business litigation. 

Her practice focuses on professional liability matters, with a particular emphasis on accounting liability.

Amanda represents accounting firms and their professionals, public and private companies, officers and directors, insurance companies, and national law firms in federal and state court litigation, bankruptcy court adversary proceedings, arbitration, before the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), and in connection with Department of Justice, grand jury, and other civil and criminal investigative bodies. She also represents broker-dealers, registered representatives, and investment advisors in securities arbitrations, regulatory investigations and other proceedings, including arbitrations before the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA).

Her practice also expands to construction litigation. She has experience navigating clients through complex contract disputes and litigating various federal and state regulatory issues.

  • Provide antitrust and other advice to an agricultural trade association.
  • Obtained a dismissal with prejudice for the former president of a publicly traded clothing company in a DOJ criminal prosecution for conspiracy to commit financial statement fraud.
  • Part of team winning four-week bench trial and subsequent appeals on behalf of a brokerage firm/investment bank and an individual investment banker, alleging securities fraud, common law fraud, and breach of fiduciary duty.
  • Defended a real estate developer against claims that its project caused extensive flooding to an adjacent subdivision in violation of state law and the federal Clean Water Act.
  • Defended a Big Four accounting firm in a multi-billion-dollar professional negligence case arising out of the bankruptcy of one of the largest privately held mortgage origination companies in the United States, resolving the matter to the mutual satisfaction of the parties after discovery.
  • Successfully defended a Big Four accounting firm in hundreds of state and federal lawsuits arising from audits of a county-owned hospital and its pension plan, winning dismissals of several actions and resolving the remaining actions to the mutual satisfaction of the parties after discovery.
  • Defended a national broker-dealer in several proceedings in which the opposing party ultimately sought more than $100 million in connection with the alleged wrongful recruitment of a registered representative and alleged theft of trade secrets. We initially represented the client in connection with a motion for a temporary restraining order in federal district court. We then defended the client in a two-year arbitration. The opposing party achieved a negligible net recovery, and our client was awarded more than $200,000 in sanctions.
  • Defended an AmLaw 50 law firm against claims of professional malpractice, breach of fiduciary duty and fraud.
  • Law School for the CFO, December 1, 2022, The CFO Leadership Council
  • Named to the “Ones to Watch” list by The Best Lawyers in America in the area of commercial litigation (2024)

 

  • Editor, Professional Liability Litigation Committee, American Bar Association Section of Litigation
  • Georgia
  • State Courts of Georgia
  • U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia
  • U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
  • Northern District of Georgia
  • J.D., summa cum laude, University of Georgia School of Law,

    Member, Georgia Law Review

  • B.A., magna cum laude, Furman University
Amanda Giffin

Counsel

Amanda Giffin

Counsel

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