Tamer Mallat

Tamer Mallat is an associate in the firm’s litigation group. Mr. Mallat focuses his practice on representing domestic and international financial institutions, corporations, sovereign wealth funds, hedge funds, portfolio companies, and brokerage firms as well as their senior executives or directors in complex civil disputes and white-collar investigations.

Mr. Mallat has significant experience in sovereign and cross-border litigation matters, having represented both plaintiffs and defendants. He has advised foreign sovereign states and their leaders on U.S.-related matters—including a president, prime ministers, a former vice-president, as well as other cabinet-level officials. Mr. Mallat also represents bondholders in litigation against the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela in aggregated claims exceeding US$1,000,000,000, and he was a member of the team that secured a US$300,000,000 judgment against the Arab Syrian Republic in connection with its government’s extrajudicial killing of a prominent American journalist in 2012.

Mr. Mallat has extensive experience in all aspects of litigation in both state and federal courts and routinely advises clients on a variety of matters including matters involving the Anti-Terrorism Act, the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act, complex contracts, cross-border transactions, commercial real estate disputes, and 28 U.S.C. § 1782. Mr. Mallat also works closely with Dechert’s financial restructuring, bankruptcy, and private equity groups.

Mr. Mallat maintains an active pro bono practice, with a focus on criminal defense and appeals. His representative experience includes securing a rare victory vacating a life sentence for one of his clients before the New York Appellate Division. Mr. Mallat also represents clients in complex immigration matters that involve sensitive national security issues.

From 2022 to 2023, Mr. Mallat served as a judicial law clerk to the Honorable Joseph F. Bianco on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. While at Columbia Law School, he interned for the Honorable Victor Marrero on the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, as well as for Ambassador Nawaf Salam (then Permanent Representative of Lebanon to the United Nations, and now President of the International Court of Justice), and for the Immigrants’ Rights Clinic.