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Nicholas A. Gravante Jr.
Boies, Schiller & Flexner
570 Lexington Avenue
New York, NY 10022
212-446-2320 (direct)
212-446-2300 (firm)
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Nicholas Gravante is the Administrative Partner of the New York City office and also serves as General Counsel to the firm. He is a trial specialist, whose main practice areas include business crimes, commercial litigation and antitrust litigation. Mr. Gravante was recently listed in Lawdragon's 500 Leading Lawyers in America and for several years has been honored as one of the leading lawyers in New York.

Mr. Gravante currently serves as counsel in pending matters to the former CEO of a major insurance company, to Starr International Company and C.V. Starr & Co., both multi-billion dollar investment companies, and to the Andy Warhol Foundation. He also serves as lead national trial counsel for thousands of independent retail pharmacies in a federal antitrust case against major drug manufacturers. Other representative clients of Mr. Gravante's include Carnival Corporation, Calvin Klein Inc., Tyco International and several leading hedge funds.

Before joining Boies, Schiller & Flexner in June of 2000, Mr. Gravante was a partner at Barrett Gravante Carpinello & Stern LLP. Prior to that, he was associated with Cravath, Swaine & Moore and the Law Office of Gerald L. Shargel.

Mr. Gravante has won trials in federal and state courts across the country, including securing acquittals in several high-profile criminal cases. Since joining Boies, Schiller & Flexner, he won a substantial jury verdict in federal court in Los Angeles for a nationally known mystery author against a major publishing house, won the acquittal of a defendant charged with arson in New York State Supreme Court in a groundbreaking "false confession" case, and achieved a hung jury defending an anesthesiologist against insurance fraud charges in a high profile matter in federal court in New York. Most recently, he presented part of the defense case on behalf of Starr International Company in the firm's trial victory over AIG in a dispute over the ownership of billions of dollars of AIG stock. He also recently represented members of the Vice-President's immediate family, winning an outright dismissal of a well-publicized civil action filed against them.

Prior to joining Boies, Schiller & Flexner, Mr. Gravante's trial victories included winning an acquittal for three leading New York City real estate companies indicted under the Martin Act. He also acheived a jury verdict vindicating foreign exchange traders at Bauque Indosuez accused of executing hundreds of millions of dollars of unauthorized trades.

Mr. Gravante has successfully negotiated pleas for individual and corporate clients in many high-profile matters, including for the former owner of a National Hockey League team charged with mail and wire fraud; a floor trader on the New York Stock Exchange charged with securities violations; and a medical supplies provider charged with insurance fraud. He has also negotiated non-prosecution agreements for major, publicly-traded companies and successfully exonerated numerous individuals, non-profit entities, Fortune 500 companies and a major national university in federal and state grand jury and regulatory investigations.

Selected Professional Awards and Associations

New York Council of Defense Lawyers
Former Member of Sentencing Guidelines Committee
Federal Bar Council
Association of the Bar of the City of New York
Former Member of Criminal Advocacy Committee
National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers

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Education

Columbia Law School, J.D., 1985; Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar; Writing and Research Editor, Journal of Law and Social Problems
Duke University, B.S., magna cum laude, Psychology and Political Science, 1982

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New York and Connecticut

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