Miranda Schiller retired from the partnership in 2023. She was a partner in Weil’s Securities Litigation and Corporate Governance practice, where she focused on representing companies and their directors and officers in shareholder class and derivative actions. Miranda also has had extensive experience counseling clients in transactions involving indentures and other debt instruments, with Cayman Islands appraisal proceedings and other offshore actions, and with the defense of numerous bondholder actions as well as § 16(b) short swing trading actions. Miranda was named as one of the top securities litigators in New York City by New York Super Lawyers in every year since 2005. She was also named a “recommended” lawyer for Securities Litigation – Defense by The Legal 500. In 2013, her work on behalf of the outside directors of Satyam was recognized among the “Litigation Heavyweights” in the Financial Times’ “US Innovative Lawyers” report.
Prior to joining Weil in 1988, Miranda served as law clerk to The Honorable Lynn N. Hughes of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas.
Miranda served on the Firm’s pro bono committee (1996-2023) and, over the last 30 years, represented dozens of clients in pro bono matters. Miranda was the recipient of CancerCare’s 2013 Help and Hope award.