Education

  • J.D., St. John’s University Law School, 1995
  • B.A., Fairfield University, 1991

Bar Admissions

  • New York
  • New Jersey

Court Admissions

  • U.S. District Court, District of New Jersey
  • U.S. District Court, Southern and Eastern Districts of New York
  • U.S. Court of Appeals, Third Circuit

Memberships & Affiliations

American Bar Association

Gregory J. Hindy

Partner
  • T: 973.639.6954
    F: 973.297.3883
    • Four Gateway Center
      100 Mulberry St.
      Newark, NJ 07102
Mr. Hindy is a partner in the Business & Financial Services Litigation Group and focuses his practice on representing business entities and directors and officers in a wide variety of disputes. He regularly practices in the Federal and State courts in New Jersey and New York in all areas of complex business law with an emphasis on securities-related litigation and has litigated, tried and/or arbitrated a broad range of cases and issues including alleged violations of the Securities Act of 1933, the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the Investment Company Act of 1940, the Investment Advisers Act of 1940, and the Trust Indenture Act, alleged violations of Federal and State RICO laws, shareholder derivative claims, director and officer liability, post-acquisition/post-merger indemnity, breach of fiduciary duty and consumer fraud act claims. His work in these areas includes defending corporations and individuals in class actions or putative class actions and in prosecuting and defending against Orders to Show Cause for injunctive and/or other emergent relief.

Mr. Hindy also has significant experience defending broker-dealers in NASD arbitrations and regulatory and enforcement actions prosecuted by the NASD, NYSE, State Attorneys General, and State Bureaus of Securities. In addition, he has experience conducting internal corporate investigations and counseling and advising boards of directors on corporate governance and a wide variety of issues and topics.

Mr. Hindy is a trustee of a charitable foundation, the primary purpose of which is advancing the health, education and welfare of children and is also a trustee of the Essex Fells Foundation for Educational Excellence.

Mr. Hindy has been recognized as a Top 40, Under 40 lawyer by the New Jersey Law Journal in 2008 and a New Jersey Rising Star in 2009.

Representative Matters

Defending large mutual fund complex and its inside directors in a shelf space class action matter.
Defending National Bank's actions as Trustee in Trust Indenture Act and Breach of Fiduciary Duty litigations.
Representing Mid-Cap Venture Capitalists in securities fraud, common law fraud and breach of contract actions arising from their investments in and/or divesture of their equity positions in various entities.
Defending directors and officers in shareholder derivative suits alleging, among other claims, waste, mismanagement, and fraud.