Michael P. Canty is a Partner in the New York office of Labaton Keller Sucharow LLP, where he serves on the Firm’s Executive Committee and as its General Counsel. In addition, he leads one of the Firm’s Securities Litigation teams and co-leads the Firm’s Consumer Protection and Data Privacy Litigation team.
Canty has successfully prosecuted a number of high-profile securities matters on behalf of institutional investors, including Boston Retirement System v. Alexion Pharmaceuticals Inc. ($125 million settlement), In re The Allstate Corporation Securities Litigation ($90 million settlement), In re Okta, Inc. Securities Litigation ($60 million settlement), and Sinnathurai v. Novavax, Inc. ($47 million settlement) as well as matters involving Advanced Micro Devices, Camping World Holdings, and Credit Acceptance Corp, among others. Canty is actively leading the litigation of prominent cases against Fidelity National Information Services, Estée Lauder, ZoomInfo, and PG&E.
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In addition to his securities practice, Canty has a leading consumer data privacy litigation practice. He secured a historic jury verdict in the landmark data privacy case Frasco v. Flo Health, finding Meta liable for its role in the unauthorized collection and commercial use of highly personal health data from third-party app Flo Health. This is one of the first cases where a jury has held a major technology company accountable for its handling of consumer health information. Canty also achieved the historic $650 million settlement in the In re Facebook Biometric Information Privacy Litigation matter—one of the largest consumer data privacy settlements ever and one of the first cases asserting consumers’ biometric privacy rights under Illinois’ Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA). He currently serves as co-lead counsel in Garner v. Amazon.com, Inc., alleging Amazon’s illegal wiretapping and surreptitious recording through its Alexa-enabled devices.
Prior to joining Labaton Keller Sucharow, Canty served as an Assistant U.S. Attorney in the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of New York, where he was the Deputy Chief of the Office’s General Crimes Section. During his time as a federal prosecutor, Canty also served in the Office’s National Security and Cybercrimes Section. Prior to this, he served as an Assistant District Attorney for the Nassau County District Attorney’s Office, where he handled complex state criminal offenses and served in the Office’s Homicide Unit.
Canty has extensive trial experience both from his days as a prosecutor in New York City for the U.S. Department of Justice and as a Nassau County Assistant District Attorney. Canty served as trial counsel in more than 35 matters, many of which related to violent crime, white-collar, and terrorism-related offenses. He played a pivotal role in United States v. Abid Naseer, where he prosecuted and convicted an al-Qaeda operative who conspired to carry out attacks in the United States and Europe. Canty also led the investigation in United States v. Marcos Alonso Zea, a case in which he successfully prosecuted a citizen for attempting to join a terrorist organization in the Arabian Peninsula and for providing material support for planned attacks.
Before becoming a prosecutor, Canty worked as a Congressional Staff Member for the U.S. House of Representatives. He primarily served as a liaison between the Majority Leader’s Office and the Government Reform and Oversight Committee. During his time with the House of Representatives, Canty managed congressional oversight of the United States Postal Service and reviewed and analyzed counter-narcotics legislation as it related to national security matters.
