Tariq Mundiya, Partner, Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP
Tariq Mundiya is a partner and Chair of Willkie's Litigation Department, as well as a member of the firm's Executive Committee. His practice focuses on internal investigations, securities and corporate litigation under the federal and state securities laws, and litigation arising out of mergers and acquisitions and other corporate control transactions. He regularly appears in federal and state courts around the country in corporate and M&A litigation, including concurrent and parallel litigation in jurisdictions outside the United States. He also has an active hedge fund and registered funds practice, regularly representing hedge funds, funds of funds, and mutual funds in proxy contests, litigation, investigations, and SEC proceedings.
Tariq has worked on some of the most high-profile investigations, transactions, and M&A litigation in recent years, representing closed-end funds, private equity sponsors, hedge funds, and special committees of public company boards in significant appellate victories, securities fraud dismissals, shareholder litigation, proxy contests, and landmark Delaware Supreme Court decisions concerning the duties of directors in going-private transactions involving controlling stockholders.
Tariq has been consistently ranked as one of the most formidable litigators and trial lawyers in the nation. He was recognized in the 2026 Lawdragon 500 Leading Global Litigators, 500 Leading Litigators in America, and 500 Global Leaders in Crisis Management guides; named a Litigation Star by Benchmark Litigation (2026); named a leading practitioner in Litigation: Securities by Chambers USA (2014-2026); and named "Litigator of the Week" by The American Lawyer in 2016.
Tariq earned his LL.M. as a Harkness Fellow from the University of Chicago Law School in 1989 and his B.A. in law, first class honors, from the University of Cambridge in 1988. He is admitted to practice in New York.