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South Asian Youth Action! and on the executive LYNN NEUNER, a partner at Simp-
steering committee of the South Asian Bar Associa- son Thacher & Bartlett LLP, is an ex-
tion of New York perienced trial attorney who special-
izes in litigation involving securities,
mergers, insurance coverage and
false advertising disputes. She has
MATTHEW L. MAZUR is a partner
in the White Collar and Securities tried high-stakes cases in federal
Litigation Group of Dechert LLP. His and state court and conducted dozens of hear-
practice focuses on the representa- ings before the National Advertising Division and
tion of individuals and companies Networks. Lynn is a past Vice President and Execu-
in criminal and regulatory investiga- tive Committee Chair of the Association of the Bar
tions, enforcement proceedings, in- of the City of New York and a former Chair of the
ternal investigations, and related litigation. He also Board of Directors for the Yale Law School Alumni
has significant experience in complex commercial Fund. The American Lawyer named her one of the
litigation in federal and state courts, as well as com- nation’s top “45 Under 45” women attorneys. She is
mercial arbitrations. consistently ranked as one of the “Top 250 Women
in Litigation” in the U.S. by Euromoney’s Bench-
mark Litigation and is recognized by The Legal 500.
Prior to joining Dechert, Mr. Mazur served as a staff
attorney at both the Public Defender Service for the
District of Columbia and the Office of the Appel- Recent work highlights include securing a major
late Defender in New York City. He has been lead settlement midtrial under very favorable terms in
counsel or co-counsel in over twenty jury trials and a widely-watched insurance dispute; securing a fa-
bench trials, and he has briefed and argued over vorable affirmance from the Second Circuit Court
twenty appeals before the New York Court of Ap- of Appeals in a complex coverage case involving
peals, the Appellate Division of the New York Su- environmental pollution; representing TD Bank in
preme Court, and the United States Court of Ap- a massive litigation seeking more than $4.5 billion
peals for the Second Circuit. in damages related to the Stanford Ponzi scheme;
securing a major victory for Weight Watchers in a
securities class action, and also assisting Weight
In 2015, Mr. Mazur was recognized as a “Rising
Star” by the New York Law Journal, placing him Watchers in its strategic alliance with Oprah Win-
among a select group of lawyers under age 40 who frey. Lynn is very active in false advertising matters
have established a record of accomplishments, as where she regularly advises both Bayer and Pfizer
well as demonstrated that they are top contributors on advertising campaigns for such products as
to the practice of law and their communities. Super Claritin, Advil and Nexium. Lynn is currently one of
Lawyers, a publication of Thomson Reuters, has also Simpson Thacher’s two Administrative Partners and
selected Mr. Mazur as a “Rising Star” in white collar serves on the Firm’s Executive Committee.
criminal defense in each of 2014, 2015, and 2016.
Mr. Mazur serves on the Board of Trustees of the
Neighborhood Defender Service of Harlem, a com- JONATHAN D. POLKES is Co-
munity-based public defender serving residents of Chair of Weil, Gotshal & Manges
Upper Manhattan. He also regularly provides pro LLP’s global, 350-attorney Litigation
bono representation to indigent men and women in Department and a member of the
criminal matters in federal and state court. In March Firm’s Management Committee. Mr.
2015, he won a complete acquittal after a two-week Polkes litigates and tries significant
jury trial for a pro bono client charged with armed securities and business litigation,
robbery in Queens Supreme Court. In November counsels boards and senior executives on corporate
2016, he won another complete dismissal of child governance issues, and supervises government and
abuse allegations after a bench trial for a pro bono internal investigations and regulatory and criminal
client in the New York Family Court. matters. For more than 30 years, he has worked
at the cutting edge of financial services litigation
and enforcement, including in private practice and
as a former federal prosecutor, and his significant
engagements have chronicled nearly every major

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