A partner in the Firm’s US Disputes Group, Aalok Sharma has a domestic and international practice focusing on complex business disputes. Drawing on his extensive experience in this area, he helps clients to achieve the best possible outcomes in high-stakes litigations in federal and state courts, as well as before arbitral tribunals.
Companies to have benefited from his representation operate in diverse industries, including social media, real estate, hospital, advertising, accounting, manufacturing, banking and energy. Co-head of the Firm’s Global Technology Industry Group, he has considerable hands-on knowledge of disputes in these sectors.
A committed defender of his clients’ interests, Aalok brings insight and strategic acumen to cases involving such complex issues as privacy and defamation, trade secrets and unfair competition, as well as contract, real property and corporate governance disputes.
His successful track record has earned significant recognition within the legal community. Aalok was recently selected as one of the “Top 100 Lawyers in California” by leading California legal newspapers, the Los Angeles Daily Journal and the San Francisco Daily Journal. In 2011, the publications also recognized him as one of the “Top 20 Lawyers in California Under the Age of 40”.
Aalok’s key clients include Children’s Hospital Los Angeles, SunCal Companies, Valero Energy Company and McKinley Children’s Center. He also acts as international outside counsel to Facebook Inc., a position which gives him responsibility for all the company’s international litigation.
In addition to his other roles within White & Case, Aalok is the Hiring Partner of the Los Angeles office and Chair of its Associates’ Committee.
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