Joe Kiefer joined Block & Leviton LLP as Senior Counsel in 2024. His practice focuses on merger and acquisition litigation in the Delaware Court of Chancery as well as on complex securities and antitrust litigation. Joe is a member of several litigation teams representing stockholders and former stockholders alleging breaches of fiduciary duty connected to company sales, mergers, disclosures to stockholders, and other corporate actions. During his career, Joe has worked on teams that have collectively recovered nearly $1 billion on behalf of plaintiffs.
Prior to joining Block & Leviton, Joe was a litigation associate at Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, LLP, where he participated in some of the largest and most impactful antitrust litigations in the country as well as in major complex litigations ranging from arbitration between major league baseball teams to disputes over collapsed investment funds to fights over premier Manhattan real estate.
Joe was a leading associate in Alaska Electrical Pension Fund, et. al. v. Bank of America et. al. (“ISDAFix”) (S.D.N.Y.), which ultimately settled for over $500 million. The case involved a conspiracy among major banks to fix the price of a complex and important daily benchmark price. In approving the final settlement, Judge Furman of the Southern District of New York lauded the attorneys for doing “an extraordinary job . . . probably the most complicated case I have had since I have been on the bench … You have in my view done an extraordinary service to the class I think you have done an extraordinary job and deserve thanks and commendation for that.”
For his work on the ISDAfix case, Joe received the American Antitrust Institute 2018 Antitrust Enforcement Award. Joe was also named as a “Best Lawyer” in the field of antitrust in 2022 and 2024.
Immediately after law school, Joe clerked for two years for the Honorable Thomas W. Thrash in the Northern District of Georgia, in Atlanta. During law school he also interned for Judge M. Casey Rodgers in the Northern District of Florida and for Justice Hugh Thompson of the Georgia Supreme Court. Prior to law school, Joe worked as an investment analyst for a securities arbitration practice that represented retirees who were duped into inordinately risky investments.
