A partner in the Litigation Department and deputy chair of our Cryptocurrency & Blockchain practice group, Kristina A. Bunting focuses her practice on securities litigation and enforcement matters. Bunting represents companies and their officers and directors in shareholder class actions, derivative litigations, individual actions, corporate internal investigations, and investigations brought by the U.S. Securities Exchange Commission and other regulatory bodies, with a particular focus on clients in the fintech, digital asset and cryptocurrency industries.
Lawdragon Honors
| Honor | Year | Practice |
|---|---|---|
| The 2026 Lawdragon 500 X – The Next Generation | 2026 | Securities Litigation |
| The 2025 Lawdragon 500 X – The Next Generation | 2025 | Securities Litigation |
Bunting’s significant representations include:
- Apple in securities class action litigation involving statements about its business in China.
- 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.
- Meta Platforms, Inc. before the U.S. Supreme Court in connection with securities litigation stemming from Cambridge Analytica’s misappropriation of Facebook user data.
- General Motors in securing the full dismissal of securities class action litigation concerning Cruise, GM’s self-driving car subsidiary.
- Avis Budget Group in the dismissal of a shareholder derivative litigation in the District of New Jersey concerning a stock repurchase program.
- Virtu Financial in numerous matters including:
- the resolution of a federal lawsuit seeking to compel the SEC to comply with the Freedom of Information Act and release documents pertaining to the agency’s rulemaking process particularly regarding new rule proposals for retail stock order handling and execution.
- a securities class action regarding Virtu’s commitment to safeguarding client trading information, which resulted in an SEC investigation and enforcement action
- 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.
Bunting’s experience representing fintech, digital asset and cryptocurrency clients includes:
- Coinbase Global in the dismissal of multiple separate putative class actions concerning the listing of certain algorithmic stablecoins.
- Ripple co-founder Chris Larsen in the dismissal of an SEC lawsuit 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.