Meghan Natenson

Counsel

Complex Commercial Litigation

Overview

Meghan is a member of the firm’s Complex Commercial Litigation group. She has served as counsel in matters involving federal securities laws, shareholder activism disputes, class actions, breaches of fiduciary duty, breaches of contract, fraud, negligence, and other commercial disputes. She has prosecuted and defended cases in federal and state courts at the trial and appellate levels, and in arbitration.

Commercial Litigation

Represented the Special Litigation Committee of a public technology company in connection with allegations of insider trading by senior executives, in response to shareholder derivative lawsuits
Represented companies and boards of directors in securities and business tort litigation brought by activist shareholders that resulted in favorable settlements
Represented biotechnology company in contractual dispute, and obtained multi-million dollar award in arbitration
Represented private retail business and its executive management team in derivative action and offensive countersuit involving co-investors, and concerning issues of fraud, contract and fiduciary violations; obtained summary disposition eliminating majority of liability exposure, and litigated remaining issues through arbitration hearing
Represents transportation company in putative class actions pending in federal court, as well as individual actions pending in state court
Represents shareholder activist in pending federal securities litigation

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Represented company in connection with internal investigation into data breach
Represented the audit committee of a public company in Department of Justice and Securities and Exchange Commission investigations concerning alleged FCPA violations in the Middle East
Represented a Silicon Valley-based technology company in government investigations concerning alleged FCPA violations

Capabilities

Credentials

Education

University of California – Berkeley, J.D., 2016
University of California – Berkeley, B.A., 2012

Admissions

California
United States District Court for the Northern and Southern Districts of California
United States Court of Appeals for the First, Fifth, Ninth, and D.C. Circuits
United States Supreme Court

Recognitions

The Best Lawyers in America© (BL Rankings, LLC), “Ones to Watch,” Criminal Defense: White-Collar (San Francisco), 2026 and 2027
Selected to the Northern California Rising Stars list, Super Lawyers (Thomson Reuters), 2023–2025