Mark D. Kotwick

Mark D. Kotwick is a partner in Seward & Kissel's Litigation Group.  Mark has practiced law since 1989 and became a partner in the Firm in 2000.

Mr. Kotwick represents clients in a wide variety of complex and sensitive matters, including those involving securities litigation, banking and commercial controversies, employment law, and commercial and bankruptcy litigation involving asset backed securities.  He also regularly advises clients on employment matters, including employment contracts, restrictive covenants, reductions in force, group hirings and other work place issues.

Representative litigation matters include:
• Representing corporate trustees in connection with disputes surrounding obligations to repurchase mortgage loans in residential mortgage backed securities trusts
• Representing the trustee of several hundred residential mortgage backed securities trusts in a bankruptcy litigation over the loan originator's repurchase obligations 
• Representing bank in a dispute involving a $500 million credit default swap agreement in proceedings in New York and London
• Representing a leading Canadian bank in a federal securities class action, bankruptcy adversary proceeding and various multi-district litigation related to the collapse of Enron where it was alleged that the client had aided and abetted Enron’s fraudulent accounting practices
• Representing housing company in a class action attempting to prevent its withdrawing two rental apartment buildings (representing more than 1,200 units) from New York’s Mitchell Lama housing program and $500 million condominium conversion plan
• Representing financial institution in a litigation arising from a group hiring and the transfer of the management of a CDO fund with assets in excess of one billion dollars

Mr. Kotwick received a J.D. with Honors, from University of North Carolina School of Law, and a B.S. with High Honors from Grand Valley State University.  He is a member of the New York County Lawyers’ Association -Member, Committee on Federal Courts; the New York State Bar Association; the American Bar Association; and the International Bar Association.