Natascha Born’s practice focuses on complex, high-stakes litigation, including multi-jurisdictional and cross-border disputes. She has broad experience ...
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Experience
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- The Rigmora Limited Partners, as anchor investors of a multibillion private equity fund, as trial counsel in a 2025 bench trial in the Delaware Court of Chancery, arising from a dispute with the fund’s general partner, ATP GP III, Ltd., over the parties’ respective rights and obligations with respect to governance and capital commitments under the LPA and Cayman law. In its post-trial decision, the Court largely rejected the GP’s claims, including its attempt to seize control of the fund’s investments and strip the LPs of their voting and economic, and confirmed the contractual limit to the LPs’ capital commitments.
- The Rigmora Limited Partners, as anchor investors of a multibillion private equity fund, in multijurisdictional disputes with the general partner of ATP Life Science Ventures, LP, a multi-billion dollar life-sciences investment fund, arising from the GP’s management of the fund and of the LP’s investments, including as trial counsel in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware.
- Tether, Bitfinex and related entities in a putative class action asserting Commodities Exchange Act, antitrust and fraud claims based on alleged manipulation of the price of cryptocommodities.
- A Caribbean bank in the successful and voluntary dismissal of an action in U.S. federal court asserting RICO and state law claims following the motion to dismiss.
- Jacobs Solutions Inc. in defense of a lawsuit alleging violations of the TVPRA in the District of Colorado in connection with the 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar.
- Albertsons in the FTC’s, Colorado Attorney General’s, and Washington Attorney General’s challenges to its merger with Kroger.
- Five public company directors in a derivative litigation in the Delaware Court of Chancery challenging a stock for stock merger and seeking over $100 million in potential damages, resulting in an early settlement on favorable terms.
- Perenco Ecuador in the successful enforcement of an ICSID award against Ecuador in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia.
- AIG Financial Products Corporation defending claims in Connecticut state court by former executives seeking payment of bonuses allegedly payable under the terms of a deferred compensation scheme.
- Clayton, Dubilier & Rice, its Fund VIII, and certain CD&R partners as defendants in shareholder litigation in the Delaware Court of Chancery challenging the multibillion dollar stock-for-stock merger of Ply Gem with NCI Building Systems.
- An engineering and commissioning contractor in a multibillion dollar ICC arbitration seated in Singapore concerning the disputed termination of an EPC subcontract to build and commission a combined-cycle power plant at an Australian LNG facility.
- NexBank as agent for lenders, Oaktree Capital Management, Centerbridge and Five Mile, in litigation to enforce guarantees with a Las Vegas real estate investment.
Education
- Harvard Law School, 2014, J.D.
- Stanford University, 2010, B.A.