He focuses on high-stakes securities and technology-related disputes. He regularly represents publicly traded companies and their officers and directors in securities class actions, shareholder litigation and government and internal investigations, and he has represented leading financial institutions in securities litigation. He also represents and advises technology companies in complex business disputes.
Mr. Phadke is Co-Chair of the ABA’s Securities Litigation Committee and has spoken and written on securities law topics. He also maintains an active pro bono practice. He helped lead litigation to open Foothills Park in Palo Alto to non-residents and overturn a ban on non-resident access that had been in place for over 50 years, a result that was recognized by the Daily Journal. He also represented the ACLU of Northern California in public records act litigation related to California’s proposed lethal injection regulations. Mr. Phadke is a past board member of the South Asian Bar Association of Northern California.
Mr. Phadke graduated from Stanford Law School with distinction, where he was elected to Order of the Coif and was an articles editor on the Stanford Law Review. After law school, he served as a law clerk with the Honorable Pamela Ann Rymer of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.