Thomas C. Rice, a Partner at Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP, is Co-Chair of the Firm’s Litigation Department. Tom is a commercial trial lawyer with expertise in a wide variety of complex litigations, including securities, antitrust, bankruptcy litigation, ERISA and professional malpractice.
Tom presently represents issuer and underwriter defendants, including RBS, Deutsche Bank and UBS, in residential mortgage-backed securities litigations, is counsel for JPMorgan Chase in auction rate securities litigation and represents investment banking clients, including Merrill Lynch and JPMorgan Chase in several derivatives-related litigations. Other recent engagements include In re Municipal Derivatives Antitrust Litigation, where Tom represented JPMorgan Chase and served as liaison counsel for the defendants alleged to have conspired to fix prices of various derivatives products sold to municipalities throughout the U.S.; In re LIBOR-Based Financial Instruments Antitrust Litigation, where Tom represents JPMorgan Chase against charges that it participated with other lenders in the manipulation of LIBOR-based interest rates; In re Fontainebleau Las Vegas Contract Litigation, in which Tom represents Barclays, Deutsche Bank, JPMorgan Chase and RBS in coordinated lender liability litigation arising from the failure of the Fontainebleau Las Vegas casino project; In re Idearc Inc., in which Tom was trial counsel for JPMorgan Chase in copyright-related lien litigation commenced by the Idearc Uninsured Creditors Committee; In re Enron Corp. Securities, Derivatives and “ERISA” Litigation, where Tom has served as lead counsel for JPMorgan Chase in securities and related litigations and government investigations; and numerous others.