Kevin Crisp
Biography
Kevin Crisp is a partner in the Litigation and Trials Practice Groups in Haynes Boone’s Orange County office.
Kevin’s practice covers a range of commercial litigation matters, including mergers and acquisitions, securities, corporate fiduciary duty, banking and finance, and trade secret as well as all manner of business torts and contract disputes. A banker before he was a lawyer, Kevin thrives in matters involving finance and accounting.
Kevin also represents clients involved in government investigations and homeowners’ association disputes.
Kevin Crisp is a partner in the Litigation and Trials Practice Groups in Haynes Boone’s Orange County office.
Kevin’s practice covers a range of commercial litigation matters, including mergers and acquisitions, securities, corporate fiduciary duty, banking and finance, and trade secret as well as all manner of business torts and contract disputes. A banker before he was a lawyer, Kevin thrives in matters involving finance and accounting.
Kevin also represents clients involved in government investigations and homeowners’ association disputes.
Merger and Acquisition Litigation
- Defense of an automobile manufacturer regarding alleged fraud and breach claims in connection with a $3.4 billion merger with a special purpose acquisition company.
- Defense of a power management manufacturer against alleged holdback and breach claims arising out of $1.75 billion acquisition.
- Defense of a semiconductor manufacturer as to alleged business torts and securities fraud related to a $300 million acquisition.
- Defense of a broadcasting company regarding alleged indemnification and working capital adjustment claims with respect to $300 million merger.
- Defense of a mortgage lender over alleged working capital adjustment and earnout claims arising out of $200 million merger.
- Defense of an information technology company for alleged indemnification claims in connection with $200 million acquisition.
- Defense of a biotechnology company against alleged dissenter and appraisal claims with respect to purchase of $150 million biotechnology company.
- Defense of a registered investment advisory firm regarding alleged fraud and breach claims related to $50 million acquisition.
Securities Litigation
- Defense of a funeral home operator regarding class action claims related to $1.3 billion merger.
- Defense of a mortgage lender against class action claims related to conversion of $150 million in preferred shares.
- Defense of a pharmaceutical company as to class action claims arising from $350 million merger.
Corporate Fiduciary Duty Litigation
- Defense of a master plan real estate developer regarding a $500 million case alleging breach of fiduciary duty and fraudulent transfer claims.
- Defense of a mortgage lender’s senior officers against a $400 million suit alleging breach of fiduciary duty and fraudulent transfer claims.
Banking and Finance Litigation
- Representation of a lender in judicial foreclosure regarding $100 million loan secured by hotel properties.
- Representation of a lender in judicial foreclosure regarding $40 million loan secured by commercial properties.
Trade Secret Litigation
- Defense of an industrial real estate developer as to alleged trade secret misappropriation claims.
- Defense of a registered investment advisor against alleged trade secret misappropriation claims.
- Representation of registered investment advisory firm regarding alleged $100 million trade secret misappropriation claims.
- Representation of real estate investment firm for trade secret misappropriation claims.
Government Investigation/False Claim Act Cases
- Defense of CEO and chairman against nationwide civil and criminal investigations conducted by various federal agencies, which included a two-year Congressional investigation and numerous related civil litigations.
- Defense of real estate investment firm against false claim act allegations.
- Defense of multinational trading and service company regarding fraud and breach claims arising out of false claim act allegations.
Other Litigation
- Defense of mobile data technology company against a $50 million case alleging breach of contract and option claims.
- Defense of a financial services company in a $20 million suit alleging breach of contract and fiduciary duty claims.
- Representation of various individuals against homeowners’ associations.
Some of these representations were handled by Kevin prior to joining Haynes Boone.
- Orange County Bar Association
- Orange County Federal Bar Association
- Association of Business Trial Lawyers
- Best Lawyers in America®, Woodward/White, Inc., Commercial Litigation, 2023-2025
- Selected for inclusion as a Rising Star, Southern California Super Lawyers, Thomson Reuters, 2018
- “Not So Fast! Ninth Circuit Clarifies the Role of Materiality in Triggering SLUSA’s Class Action Bar,” co-author, client alert, April 16, 2021.
- “First Diversity-Driven Derivative Suit in Facebook Case Tossed by Northern District of California,” co-author, client alert, March 31, 2021.
- “9th Circuit Traces Limits Of Title VII Around Arbitration,” co-author, Law 360, Jun 17, 2015.
- “Ninth Circuit Again Clarifies that Arbitration Is Creature of Contract: Employee's Agreement to Abide by Company Manual Is Sufficient to Send Title VII Claims to Arbitrator,” co-author, client alert, May 28, 2015.
- “Ninth Circuit Affirms District Court’s Refusal to Enforce Arbitration Clause in Barnes & Noble’s Browsewrap Agreement—‘Without More,’ Is Insufficient,” co-author, 20 IP Litigator 34 (2014).
- “New Ninth Circuit Opinion Requires Companies Seeking to Enforce Arbitration to Pay 'Sirius' Attention to Contract Formation,” co-author, client alert, Nov. 18, 2014.
- “Giving Investors Short Shrift: How Short Sale Constraints Decrease Market Efficiency and a Modest Proposal for Letting More Shorts Go Naked,” 8 J. Bus & Sec. L. 135 (2008).
Education
J.D., University of California Los Angeles School of Law, 2008, Managing Editor, UCLA Law Review; member, Order of the Coif; Winner, 2008 Elliot A. Spoon National Business Law Writing Competition
B.A., English and Economics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2001
Admissions
California
Court Admissions
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
U.S. District Court for the Central District of California
U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California
U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California
