Natascha Born’s practice focuses on complex, high-stakes litigation, including multi-jurisdictional and cross-border disputes. She has broad experience advising and representing national and multinational corporations, private equity funds, banks, and high-net worth individuals. Ms. Born combines exceptional written and oral advocacy with a strategic, results-driven approach to help clients navigate their most consequential disputes. She has been recognized as a rising star by the CPR Institute.
Ms. Born has extensive experience handling cross-border disputes and a sophisticated understanding of the complex set of issues that these cases often present. These include choice of law, personal jurisdiction, corporate separateness, the extraterritorial scope of U.S. law, foreign sovereign immunity, enforcement of foreign awards and judgments, and cross-border discovery. She recently successfully defended the off-shore anchor investors of a multibillion private equity fund against the general partner’s attempts to seize control of the fund’s investments as trial counsel in the Delaware Court of Chancery. Other recent successes include obtaining a voluntary dismissal of claims in a U.S. court that sought triple damages from a foreign bank under the RICO statute.
Prior to joining Debevoise, Ms. Born served as a law clerk to the Hon. Douglas H. Ginsburg on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit and the Hon. Steven M. Colloton on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit. Ms. Born earned her J.D. magna cum laude from Harvard Law School in 2014, where she was an editor of the Harvard International Law Journal. She also received a B.A. with honors and distinction from Stanford University in 2010. Ms. Born is the author of The Presumption Against Extraterritoriality: Reconciling Canons of Statutory Interpretation with Textualism, 41 U. Pa. J. Int’l L. 541 (2020).