Mr. Wise is a member of Davis Polk & Wardwell’s Litigation Department. He has concentrated in commercial and complex litigation, including antitrust, securities, contracts, and business tort cases. His clients in these matters include investment and commercial banks, professional firms, officers and directors, and industrial companies. His practice has involved both trial and appellate advocacy. He has tried jury and non-jury cases in federal and state courts in New York, California, Texas and other states.

He has an active securities litigation and SEC enforcement practice on behalf of both issuers and financial institutions. He successfully defended a major underwriter in the four-month MiniScribe securities fraud trial before a Texas state court jury that resulted in verdicts against other defendants totaling hundreds of millions of dollars. He more recently has represented a series of issuers in federal securities law Rule 10b-5 class actions. In a non-securities law trial, he won a defense verdict on contract and fraud claims against a major Japanese bank after a two-week federal jury trial in New York. In an industrial products liability case, Mr. Wise participated in the trial of the commercial liability claims between the utility operator and the supplier of the nuclear reactor arising out of the Three Mile Island accident.

In his antitrust practice, he represented Morgan Stanley, JPMorgan and DLJ in antitrust and securities law investigations, litigation, and settlement negotiations arising out of trading practices in the Nasdaq market. He is currently representing several investment banks in several federal class litigations challenging various aspects of the initial public offering market and the securities lending business.

Mr. Wise joined Davis Polk in 1972 and became a partner in 1979. He graduated, with high distinction, from the University of Virginia in 1969 and in 1972 received his J.D. from Yale Law School. While in law school, he taught undergraduate courses in constitutional law at the University of New Haven.

Mr. Wise is a fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers. He recently served as co-chair of the Joint Committee on Local Rules for the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York. He is a past trustee of the Practicing Law Institute. He is a member of the American and the New York State Bar Associations, a past member of the Executive Committee of the latter’s Section on Commercial and Federal Litigation, and is a past chairman of that section’s Federal Procedure Committee. He has also chaired the Financial Markets Subcommittee of the Insurance Committee of the Antitrust Section of the American Bar Association. He is a past member of the Committee on State Courts of Superior Jurisdiction and the Juvenile Justice Committee of the New York City Bar. He has participated in a number of panels and other programs sponsored by bar associations and is co-author of a practice book on the 1993 amendments to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure published by the New York State Bar Association.