Robert J. Giuffra

Robert Giuffra is Co-Chair of Sullivan & Cromwell and a senior partner of the Firm’s Litigation Group. He has served on Sullivan & Cromwell’s Management Committee since 2007. A fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers and of International Academy of Trial Lawyers, Bob focuses on “bet-the-company,” commercial, securities, white-collar criminal, product liability, banking, insurance, employment and tax litigation.

For over 25 years Bob has represented prominent corporations and individuals in their most challenging civil and criminal cases, including at jury and bench trials, and on appeal in federal and state courts around the United States, before arbitration panels, and in investigations involving the U.S. Department of Justice, the SEC, the EPA, the Department of Homeland Security, U.S. and non-U.S. bank regulators, the U.S. Congress, all fifty State Attorney Generals, and the Internal Revenue Service. He regularly advises senior executives and boards of directors in internal governance matters.

Bob has successfully represented many of the world’s leading companies on their most significant, high-profile securities litigation, including Allianz, Ericsson, FirstEnergy, Goldman Sachs, Indivior PLC, Porsche, the Republic of Argentina, Tenaris, UBS and Volkswagen. Bob was named by Chambers USA as a “Star Individual” in New York Securities Litigation and has been recognized by Law360 as a Securities Litigation MVP five times.

A graduate of Princeton University and Yale Law School, he has served in all three branches of the U.S. government. He was a law clerk to Chief Justice William Rehnquist and Judge Ralph Winter of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. From 1995 to 1996, he was chief counsel to the U.S. Senate Banking Committee and was a primary drafter of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Previously, he served in the White House under President Ronald Reagan. In 2017, Chief Justice Roberts appointed him to the Standing Committee on Rules of Practice and Procedure of the U.S. Courts. A native New Yorker, he has served on New York’s Permanent Commission on Access to Justice, the State Commission on Public Integrity, the State Ethics Commission, the State-Federal Judicial Council, the Commercial Division Advisory Council, the Southern District Magistrate Judge Selection Panel, and the Commission on Attorney Discipline. He has also served as president of the Federal Bar Council.

Bob lives in New York City, with his wife Joyce and their three children, Elizabeth, Caroline, and Robert III.