Ms. Moyna graduated from Northwestern University School of Law in 2002, cum laude, where she was elected to the Order of the Coif. At Northwestern, Ms. Moyna was awarded the Arlyn Miner Award in recognition for excellence in legal writing. She also served on the Articles Board of the Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology and interned with the Honorable George C. Lindberg of the Northern District of Illinois. Ms. Moyna received her undergraduate degree in 1995 from Dartmouth College.
Prior to joining Brower Piven, Ms. Moyna was a litigator for five years at Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP and for two years at Ropes & Gray LLP. Her experience in securities law includes: defending a Fortune 100 global media conglomerate against allegations of securities fraud and accounting improprieties in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, various state courts and in connection with an SEC investigation; defending a major national commercial bank against allegations of securities fraud in connection with investments in mortgage-backed securities prompting investigations by the SEC, the Department of Labor and state enforcement agencies; representing a broker-dealer in SEC enforcement proceedings; and representing two private equity companies in connection with investigations conducted by the New York Attorney General’s Office concerning alleged kickbacks paid to the former New York State Comptroller.
Ms. Moyna has also successfully represented clients in intellectual property matters, including an arbitration between two leading developers and suppliers of wireless technologies relating to a worldwide patent dispute; a copyright infringement action in the United States District Court for the District of Utah, in which she defended a Fortune 500 provider and developer of information and computing technologies concerning its use of the “open source” operating system, Linux; and a trademark infringement action in the United States District Court for the District of Minnesota, which resulted in a voluntary dismissal of claims against her client, a water and power supply company.
Ms. Moyna also has broad commercial litigation experience, including: representing a health care company in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York concerning a dispute arising out of an asset purchase agreement; representing a high net worth individual in a breach of contract action in the United States District Court for the Central District of California concerning the auctioning of rare and expensive watches by a Swiss corporation; representing a youth soccer league in the United States District Court for the Western District of Washington against an online third-party credit card payment processor and its founder for failing to remit funds owed to the soccer league; representing a major provider of cable television programming in a New York State Supreme Court action involving an altercation between boxers held at an event to promote an upcoming boxing match. Ms. Moyna has also represented an official committee of unsecured creditors in an adversary proceeding challenging the restructuring proposal of one of the nation’s largest cable television providers in the United States Bankruptcy Court in the Southern District of New York.
Ms. Moyna authored a Supreme Court amicus brief on behalf of former federal judges in Hamdan v. Rumsfeld, arguing that the petitioner had the right to assert a separation of powers violation. Her efforts were recognized by the National Legal Aid & Defender Association when they presented the “Beacon of Justice” award to Cravath. Ms. Moyna has also authored an amicus brief in a Section 1983 case concerning the fatal shooting of an African American off-duty police officer against the City of Providence, Rhode Island which persuaded the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit to remand the case for a determination of whether officers were adequately trained in safe, off-duty procedures.
Prior to attending law school, Ms. Moyna was an associate at the Law and Economics Consulting Group and a research assistant in a vascular biology laboratory at the Harvard Medical School.
Ms. Moyna is admitted to practice in the State of New York and the Southern District of New York.
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