Timothy Cameron's Email & Phone

Timothy G. Cameron is a partner in Cravath's Litigation Department. His practice encompasses a broad range of litigation that in recent years has included: general commercial litigation; securities litigation; shareholder derivative litigation; arbitration (domestic and international); alien tort claims & international torts; and tax litigation. Mr. Cameron has particular expertise representing non-U.S. clients in a wide variety of litigation (including class actions) in Federal and/or state courts in the United States, and in arbitrations. He has extensive experience dealing with complicated cross-border issues that can arise involving non-U.S. defendants, including jurisdictional issues, reconciling a defendant's document preservation, collection and production obligations with the potential application of local (non-U.S.) law, class certification issues involving foreign putative class members, and the difficulties of obtaining testimony from witnesses located outside the United States. Mr. Cameron recently represented Vivendi, S.A. in a landmark four-month securities class action jury trial in Federal court in New York, which addressed many of those same issues. Mr. Cameron's recent cases and clients have included: * In re Vivendi, S.A. Securities Litigation: Representing Vivendi in long-running complex securities litigation in Federal court in New York. Mr. Cameron was part of the trial team that defended Vivendi during a four-month jury trial starting in October 2009. * AWB Limited & AWB (U.S.A.) Limited: Successfully represented AWB (the corporate successor to the Australian Wheat Board) in three separate cases in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, all relating to AWB's participation in the United Nations Oil-for-Food Programme. The three cases involved different types of claims, including antitrust, civil RICO, FCPA, and Alien Tort Statute and Torture Victim Protection Act claims. All three cases were dismissed at the motion to dismiss stage. * Confidential arbitration: Represented a European auto parts manufacturer in an arbitration before the American Arbitration Association arising out of a disputed joint venture between the company and a Mexican auto parts manufacturer. Mr. Cameron was born in Auckland, New Zealand. He received a LL.B.(Hons)/B.Com degree in 1994 from the University of Auckland, New Zealand; an M.ComLaw degree with first class honors in 1997 from the University of Auckland, New Zealand; and an LL.M. degree in 1998 from the University of Chicago Law School. From February 1994 to September 1997, Mr. Cameron practiced law at Russell McVeagh McKenzie Bartleet & Co., in Auckland, New Zealand. He joined Cravath in 1998 and became a partner in 2005. In 2008, Mr. Cameron was named to Lawdragon's list of the 500 Leading Lawyers in America and the 100 Lawyers You Need to Know in Securities Litigation. Mr. Cameron was recognized in 2009, 2010 and 2011 by Benchmark Litigation for his litigation work.