Lauren F. Dayton

Lauren Dayton’s practice includes complex civil and appellate litigation, with a focus on New York business disputes and antitrust.  She has represented plaintiffs and defendants in civil matters before state and federal courts.  Prior to joining MoloLamken LLP, Ms. Dayton clerked for the Honorable Steven M. Colloton of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit and for the Honorable Brian M. Cogan of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York.

She also worked as a summer associate at Sidley Austin LLP and as a summer law clerk at the United States Department of Justice in the Criminal Division, Fraud Section.  Before law school, Ms. Dayton interned for the Honorable Jeffery P. Hopkins of the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Ohio.

Representative Matters

• Represents investment entity in two related suits against PDVSA and a PDVSA affiliate over unpaid debt instruments in SDNY and in the District of Delaware
• Represents investment manager in suit against Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela over bond default in SDNY
• Represents global retailer in appeal to the First Department of breach-of-contract suit relating to COVID-19
• Represents investment fund in breach-of-contract suit involving a portfolio of life insurance policies in SDNY
• Represents telecommunications company in Fifth Circuit appeal of dismissal of antitrust suit 
• Represents university patent holder in Federal Circuit appeal of patent invalidity ruling based on indefiniteness
• Represents biopharmaceutical company in Federal Circuit appeal and U.S. Supreme Court cert petition involving patent invalidity (enablement) issues 
• Represents federal energy regulator in Fifth Circuit appeal regarding division of authority between bankruptcy courts and regulator 
• Represents plaintiff in §1983 excessive-force suit against Rikers corrections officers in SDNY (pro bono)
• Represented global financial institution in RMBS suit appeal in New York Court of Appeals
• Represented international asset manager and direct lender, as well as an indenture trustee, in trial over fraudulent-conveyance and tort claims and breaches of intercreditor agreement in U.S Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware, as well as parallel litigation in New York Supreme Court 
• Represented business development corporation in SDNY suit to enjoin activist shareholder from illegally soliciting proxies in opposition to proposed merger
• Represented Turkish entity in action to enforce ICSID arbitral award in SDNY 
• Represented national and state professional associations in amicus brief in support of cert petition before the U.S. Supreme Court  
• Represented federal energy regulator in Ninth Circuit appeals of bankruptcy court decision and regulator’s declaratory orders involving division of authority between bankruptcy courts and regulator
• Represented regional transmission organization in amicus brief in M.D. Pa. on scope of federal authority over interstate electricity transmission
• Represented municipality seeking certiorari on administrative law question before the U.S. Supreme Court
• Represented biopharmaceutical company in pair of Federal Circuit appeals of denials of preliminary injunctions
• Represented software and technology company in patent appeal before the Federal Circuit
• Represented interested-party regulator and its employees in a federal criminal trial in SDNY against some of the regulator’s former employees and other individuals
• Represented former employees of defense contractor in civil suit by the government against the defense contractor

Publications