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Zachary Faigen

Partner, Skadden

213-687-5273zack.faigen@skadden.com

2000 Avenue of the Stars
Los Angeles, CA 90067

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Zack Faigen practices complex civil litigation in state and federal court, representing clients in a wide range of cases, including securities and other class action litigation, shareholder derivative actions, antitrust lawsuits, trade secret cases, contract disputes and fraud claims.

Lawdragon Honors

Honor Year Practice
The 2026 Lawdragon 500 Leading Litigators in America 2026 Securities Litigation, Class Actions, Antitrust
The 2025 Lawdragon 500 X – The Next Generation 2025 Litigation

Faigen has represented clients in numerous matters, including:

  • Paradigm Operations LP in multiple securities class actions centered around digital assets and blockchain protocols
  • Airlines for America in a challenge to a City of San Francisco ordinance on constitutional and federal preemption grounds
  • Rocket Lab USA, Inc. in a federal securities class action and follow-on derivative action after a stock drop following a short-seller report
  • a former executive of Beyond Meat, Inc. in a putative securities class action and related shareholder derivative action alleging false and misleading statements over a multiyear period
  • Keurig Dr. Pepper and American Bottling Co. in an alleged breach of contract action
  • RTI Infrastructure, RTI Solutions and several of its executives in multijurisdictional litigation involving a variety of tort and contract claims
  • Credit Acceptance Corp. in an antitrust suit stemming from a patent dispute associated with computer programming and AI-related issues
  • The Conrad N. Hilton Foundation in a probate action seeking to invalidate a $3 billion bequest to the charity
  • Cheetah Mobile Inc., a China-based mobile and computer applications developer, in multiple federal securities actions arising out of alleged misstatements related to a business dispute involving Google mobile ads
  • Armstrong Flooring in a putative federal securities class action
  • Questcor Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (now Mallinckrodt Pharmaceuticals) in a federal securities class action

Faigen is committed to pro bono work, having represented clients in matters ranging from immigration defense to tenant eviction cases to First Amendment challenges.