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Davis Polk has one of the country's leading practices in the representation of accountants, lawyers, investment bankers, advisers and other professionals in investigations before the SEC and the stock exchanges and in state and federal court litigation. Such matters often join allegations of professional negligence with allegations based on federal securities law or bankruptcy law.

• We represented Deloitte & Touche in obtaining a dismissal of a 10b-5 complaint against the firm alleging misconduct in connection with Deloitte's audits of the financial statements of Warnaco.
• We represented Ernst & Young in a professional liability case arising out of the failure of the Bank of New England, one the largest bank failures in U.S. history.
• We are representing Sanjay Kumar, former chief executive office of Computer Associates, a New York-based information technology vendor, in investigations by the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of New York and the SEC into its accounting practices.