Catherine Moreno is a retired partner of Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, where she was the co-chair of the firm’s Securities Litigation Practice Group.  Her expertise focuses on securities litigation and counseling, including the defense of companies and their directors and officers in class actions, derivative lawsuits, and M&A litigation. She has represented companies, their officers and directors in dozens of securities class actions, derivative lawsuits, internal investigations, and SEC actions.  She also counseled companies on matters of disclosure, corporate governance, and fiduciary duties.

Prior to joining Wilson Sonsini, Catherine was an attorney at Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton in New York, where her practice focused on internal investigations and SEC enforcement matters.  She also previously co-taught a course at Berkeley Law School on Federal Securities Litigation.  She graduated from Columbia Law School in 2001, and from Rice University in 1998 where she received a B.A. in History and Policy Studies.

Catherine was listed in the 2022 inaugural edition of Lawdragon 500 Leading Litigators in America, which is dedicated to attorneys who excel at representing corporations and other organizations in litigating claims involving antitrust, securities, financial, M&A, intellectual property and patents, product liability, mass tort, white collar, government investigations, and energy disputes.  She was honored as one of the “40 Under 40 Class of 2016” leaders by the Silicon Valley Business Journal, and received a 2015 California Lawyer Attorney of the Year (CLAY) award for her pro bono work on immigration.  Catherine is also the recipient of the 2013 Jack W. Londen Award from the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights of the San Francisco Bay Area.