Michael P. Canty is a Partner in the New York office of Labaton Sucharow LLP, where he serves as General Counsel and head of the Firm’s Consumer Cybersecurity and Data Privacy Practice Group. Michael’s practice focuses on complex fraud cases on behalf of institutional investors and consumers.

Recommended by The Legal 500 and Benchmark Litigation as an accomplished litigator, Michael has more than a decade of trial experience in matters relating to national security, white collar crime, and cybercrime. Michael has been recognized as a Plaintiffs’ Trailblazer and a NY Trailblazer by the National Law Journal and the New York Law Journal, respectively, for his impact on the practice and business of law. Lawdragon has also recognized Michael as one of the “500 Leading Plaintiff Financial Lawyers in America,” as the result of their research into the country’s top verdicts and settlements.

Michael has successfully prosecuted a number of high-profile securities matters involving technology companies. Most notably, Michael is part of the litigation team that recently achieved a historic $650 million settlement in the In re Facebook Biometric Information Privacy Litigation matter—the largest consumer data privacy settlement ever and one of the first cases asserting consumers’ biometric privacy rights under Illinois’ Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA). Michael has also led cases against AMD, a multi-national semiconductor company, and Ubiquiti Networks, Inc., a global software company. In both cases, Michael played a pivotal role in securing favorable settlements for investors.