Sara Pildis Simnowitz

Sara Pildis Simnowitz serves as BFA’s General Counsel, providing counsel and advice to the firm and its lawyers on a wide range of legal, compliance, ethics, professional responsibility and risk management matters. Sara also represents institutional investors, consumers, corporations and public entities pursuing complex securities, antitrust and consumer claims, and was a member of the teams prosecuting the successfully resolved cases against Teva Pharmaceutical Industries, Ltd.,Granite Construction Incorporated, as well as the recently resolved  In re: Facebook, Inc. Consumer Privacy User Profile Litigation, which settled for $725 million–the largest recovery in a data privacy class action to date.
 
Sara has over twenty years of experience in all aspects of litigating complex matters, from pre-suit investigation through motion practice, discovery, summary judgment, trial and appeals, and considerable courtroom experience ranging from arguing critical dispositive motions to examining witnesses at trial and arguing appeals. She also has extensive experience taking and defending depositions and working with expert consultants and witnesses.

Prior to joining BFA, Sara was an attorney at other prominent law firms, where she focused on complex commercial and securities matters and handled internal investigations and investigations by both the U.S. Department of Justice and the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.