Greg Markel is a nationally recognized trial lawyer, is chairman of the Litigation Department of Seyfarth Shaw LLP’s New York office, is Co-Chair of the national Securities Litigation Practice, and is a member of the National Litigation Leadership Team. Mr. Markel has extensive experience in securities litigation, corporate governance litigation, corporate investigations, mergers and acquisition litigation, directors and officers defense, and antitrust litigation particularly in large, complex cases. He has also been an expert witness on the securities laws of the United States in foreign litigation.

He is a recognized leader in the profession. He has for years been ranked by Chambers for Securities Litigation. He was named by Best Lawyers as M&A Litigation, Lawyer of the Year, for 2018. LawDragon magazine inducted Mr. Markel into its Hall of Fame and recognized Mr. Markel as a “legend” and one of only 50 lawyers and judges in the legal profession in the United States who was named to the Law Dragon 500 for 10 consecutive years. Benchmark named him as a National Litigation Star. He is also a Legal 500 Leading Commercial Litigator, He has also been recognized by many other publications including Super Lawyers which rated him as one of the Top 100 Lawyers in New York, he is currently recognized for outstanding performance by Best Lawyer’s in America in commercial litigation, securities litigation, merger litigation and antitrust litigation, “Best in Class” in the legal profession by BestofUS.com, The International Who’s Who of Commercial Litigators and many others. He has won a lifetime achievement award from Who’s Who in America. 

Mr. Markel is a graduate of Yale Law School, the University of Michigan with an MBA with distinction and Columbia University.

He is a member of the Business Law, Litigation and Antitrust sections of the American Bar Association; the Federal Bar Council; the City Bar Committee on Securities Litigation; the Securities Industry Association – Compliance & Legal Division, and the New York State Bar Association – Commercial Litigation Section. He is the recipient of the Burton Award for Distinguished Legal Writing in 2007, 2016 and 2018. He is the Chair for the Center for Corporate Governance of the New York County Lawyers Association. Greg has been co-chair of the New York City Bar’s annual Securities Litigation Institute for a number of years and frequently speaks on panels and writes on a range of topics, such as director’s and officer’s liability, securities litigation, commercial litigation, accountants’ defense, law firm management and Internet litigation.