Ms. Reyes’s litigation experience includes international litigation, mass tort litigation, securities-related and other complex corporate and business litigation, and general commercial litigation. She has represented individuals, corporations, and foreign governments in litigation throughout the United States. These representations have included trying civil cases to jury and bench verdicts, and conducting evidentiary hearings before national and international arbitral tribunals.

Representative matters include: serving as counsel for a foreign government and its central bank in international bank fraud litigation; serving as counsel for a contracting firm in international arbitration; representing the former head of a country in civil litigation; representing individuals and corporations in securities-related litigation before the SEC and in federal court; obtaining a multi-million dollar judgment in a jury trial for a victim of elder fraud; and securing dismissal on behalf of a pharmaceutical company of a civil suit challenging a highly publicized FDA action.

Ms. Reyes serves on the firm’s pro bono committee. As part of her pro bono work, she has represented numerous asylum applicants in Immigration Court. Recently, she successfully argued a high-profile asylum appeal before the Second Circuit. Her work on behalf of asylum applicants has received recognition for distinction from the Washington Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights (2004 and 2008) and the Center for Gender & Refugee Studies (2009).

The National Law Journal listed Ms. Reyes as one of the top 40 minority lawyers under 40 in the country. She was also featured in the Legal Times special section: Champions, Visionaries & Pioneers. Ms. Reyes was recognized as a Champion for her pro bono efforts on behalf of asylum applicants.