Sandra Dawn Grannum is a partner in the Litigation Group. Her practice is focused on securities, broker/dealer, and regulatory litigation, as well as arbitration and mediation.
Financial Services Litigation. Sandy has tried complex multimillion-dollar arbitrations for corporate clients in federal courts across the country, as well as adversarial proceedings in bankruptcy courts in securities matters. She has extensive experience representing clearing brokers. She has extensive experience representing clearing brokers. She has tried more than 50 arbitrations before the NASD and FINRA awarding broker-dealers and associated persons.
Sandy has written and lectured widely on securities and ethics issues. She also has been involved in developing compliance programs in response to the Sarbanes-Oxley legislation. She chairs the full-day PLI Securities Arbitration Seminar conducted annually in New York City and regularly speaks at SIFMA C&L Annual Conference and on other CLE programs addressing securities and employment law. Sandy was one of 13 individuals on the FINRA Dispute Resolution Task Force. FINRA charged this group to collaborate and suggest strategies to enhance the transparency, impartiality, and efficiency of FINRA's securities dispute resolution forum for all participants. On December 16, 2015, the task force issued its recommendations detailed in the Final Report and Recommendations of the FINRA Dispute Resolution Task Force.
Employment Litigation. Sandy is an experienced employment law practitioner having tried a number of employment arbitrations and administrative hearings. She has represented a number of corporate clients in Federal Courts across the country and before the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) as well as State Divisions and Commissions of Human Rights.
General Litigation. Sandy has handled a variety of complex general litigation matters, including shareholder clawback litigations and takeover/business judgment rule litigations, employment discrimination and securities litigation.
In General. Sandy earned her law degree from Harvard Law School and her bachelor’s degree from New York University. She began her career as a litigation associate at the New York law firm of Cravath, Swaine & Moore before moving to Tenzer Greenblatt to practice securities litigation. Sandy moved in-house to be an Associate General Counsel handling securities litigation at PaineWebber (now UBS Financial Services) in 1997. In November 2001, she became Senior Vice President and Senior Associate General Counsel in PaineWebber/UBS’ Employment Law Unit. In 2003, she formed her own firm, Davidson & Grannum, with a former PainWebber/UBS colleague.
