Brendan Blake

Brendan Blake is an associate in the firm’s Complex Litigation & Dispute Resolution practice. His practice focuses on complex commercial litigation, securities and shareholder litigation, and antitrust litigation. He joined Goodwin in 2022.

Brendan’s recent representations include:

• Defending SaaS company and its executive officers in securities fraud class action lawsuit
• Representing pediatric home nursing company in breach of contract and fraud litigation against its former owners
• Defending pharmaceutical company in breach of contract litigation in connection with earnout payments allegedly owed to former stockholders
• Defending former owners of home health and hospice care company in litigation alleging breach of contract and fraud in connection with sale of company
• Representing pharmaceutical company in contractual dispute with joint venture partner
• Representing founder and CEO of international micromobility company in litigation arising from sale of company to hedge fund
• Representing multiple development-stage pharmaceutical companies in SEC and FINRA investigations concerning potential insider trading by company employees
• Defending real estate investment trust and its former board of directors in preferred stockholder litigation alleging breaches of contract and fiduciary duties in connection with merger transaction
• Defending cryptocurrency exchange in consumer class action lawsuit alleging violations of Illinois Biometric Information Protection Act
• Representing videogame maker in antitrust litigation against major mobile platform operators*
• Defending oil and natural gas pipeline company and its former board of directors in stockholder litigation alleging violations of federal securities laws and breaches of contract and fiduciary duties in connection with merger transaction*
• Defending international gold mining company in litigation alleging breach of contract and securities fraud in connection with sale of Colorado gold mine*
• Defending international financial services company in nationwide residential mortgage-backed securities litigation*

*Denotes experience prior to joining Goodwin

Prior to joining Goodwin, Brendan was an associate at Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP.

After law school, Brendan served as a law clerk to the Honorable Patti B. Saris, then-Chief Judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts.

While attending law school, Brendan served as the Editor-in-Chief of the Boston University Law Review.