EXPERIENCE

Kristina’s significant representations include:

• Goldman Sachs in its victories at the U.S. Supreme Court and Second Circuit in a billion-dollar, long-running securities class action involving the standard for disproving price impact in connection with class certification in a securities class action.
• General Motors in securities class action litigation concerning Cruise, GM’s self-driving car subsidiary.
• Snap, Inc., and several of its directors and executives, in a securities class action and related shareholder derivative actions concerning Snap’s preparation for Apple’s rollout of new privacy changes.
• The former chief accounting officer of Dentsply Sirona in the dismissal of all claims in a federal securities litigation arising out of a purported channel stuffing scheme and the subsequent restatement of Dentsply’s 2022 financials.  
• Nicholas Schorsch, the founder and former CEO of American Realty Capital Properties (ARCP), in class action and individual securities fraud cases and derivative litigations concerning ARCP’s accounting restatement.

Kristina’s experience representing fintech, digital asset and cryptocurrency clients includes:

• Ripple co-founder Chris Larsen in the dismissal of an SEC lawsuit brought against alleging that the defendants had altogether conducted over $2.6 billion in unregistered securities transactions through the sale of a digital asset, including a significant summary judgment victory in which the Southern District of New York held that the sale of a digital asset on public exchanges does not constitute the sale of unregistered securities.
• Numerous clients in connection with general corporate advice relating to cryptocurrency and blockchain related issues. 

Before private practice, Kristina clerked for the Hon. Justice Jillian Mallon and Hon. Justice Alan MacKenzie of the High Court of New Zealand. She also received the prestigious Yvonne A.M. Smith Scholarship, which focuses on promoting women in leadership, and was a Lawrence A. Wien Corporate Responsibility Fellow at Columbia University. Her article, “Estoppel by Convention: The Position and Practical Consequences” was published by the Victoria University of Wellington Law Review. She was also a winner of the Sir Richard Wild Cup for mooting at Victoria University of Wellington and was a grand finalist in the Australian Law Students’ Association National Moot in the same year.