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Banks Brown is a partner in the law firm of McDermott Will & Emery LLP based in the Firm's New York office. He is head of the New York office Trial Department. Banks focuses his practice on complex commercial litigation and disputes.
Banks has extensive experience in the defense of class action lawsuits. This experience ranges from early in his career when he represented the American Stock Exchange in shareholder actions under Section 6 of the Securities Exchange Act, to numerous consumer class actions under the now defunct Department of Energy price controls on oil and gas, to a decade long series of class actions arising out of Gulf Oil Corporation's tender offer for the stock of Cities Service Corporation, to recent representation of a major foreign accounting firm in a shareholder class action under Section 10(b) of the Securities Exchange Act, and related SEC proceedings. Banks has also represented parties in numerous complex commercial arbitrations, involving the following types of claims (among others): admiralty claims, environmental claims, sizeable disputes over sales contracts for crude oil, refined product and steel products, refinery performance, steel manufacturing, and oil spills on the high seas. In appropriate cases, he also has represented parties in trusts and estates disputes.
As a by-product of his extensive litigation experience, Banks has a deep working knowledge of cost, fee, and risk analysis, including decision-tree analysis as it applies to complex litigations.
Banks also serves as the General Counsel for the American Hotel & Lodging Association, the Hotel Association of New York City, Inc. and the Travel Business Roundtable. He regularly writes for Lodging Law, a publication of the American Hotel & Lodging Association, and is the 2006 recipient of the Anthony G. Marshall Award for Pioneering and Continuous Contribution to Hospitality Law. He is co-author of a recognized treatise on hospitality law entitled "Understanding Hospitality Law" (4th Ed. Educational Institute, AHLA).
Banks was admitted to the Bar of the State of New York in 1978.
Education:
University of Virginia School of Law, J.D., 1977.
Harvard University, B.A. (cum laude), 1974. | 