Biography
Some of Tanner’s recent experience includes working on Weil teams representing:
- Lululemon – serving as the lead associate on the Weil team representing clothing retailer lululemon athletica, inc., its senior officers and directors in securities class action and shareholder derivative actions.
- Estée Lauder – serving as the lead associate on the Weil team representing Estée Lauder and its directors and officers in newly filed securities class action and derivative matters relating to allegedly false and misleading public statements regarding future sales in travel retail.
- AMC Entertainment – serving as the lead associate on the Weil team representing the Company and its board in ongoing fiduciary duty litigation in the Delaware Court of Chancery relating to AMC’s issuance of AMC Preferred Equity Units.
- Brookfield Asset Management – serving as the lead associate on the Weil team representing the Company and certain of its affiliates in a consolidated stockholder derivative and class action in Delaware Chancery Court arising out of a June 2018 private placement by TerraForm Power, Inc.
- ATI Physical Therapy – serving as the lead associate on the Weil team representing ATI and certain of its officers and directors in connection with federal securities and derivative litigation and Delaware fiduciary duty litigation relating to its 2021 de-SPAC transaction with Fortress Value Acquisition Corp. II;
- Gores Holdings IV – serving as the lead associate on the Weil team representing the SPAC, sponsored by The Gores Group, its former directors and officers, and certain affiliates in ongoing fiduciary duty litigation in the Delaware Court of Chancery relating to Gores Holdings IV’s $16.1 billion merger with United Wholesale Mortgage.
- Gores Guggenheim Inc. – serving as the lead associate on the Weil team representing the SPAC, sponsored by affiliates of The Gores Group and Guggenheim Capital, its former directors and officers, and certain affiliates in ongoing fiduciary duty litigation in the Delaware Court of Chancery relating to Gores Guggenheim’s $20 billion business combination with Polestar Performance AB.
- Morgan Stanley – serving on the Weil team representing the financial advisor to Elon Musk and his affiliated companies, in connection with Twitter’s expedited lawsuit in the Delaware Court of Chancery seeking to force the closing of Mr. Musk’s acquisition of Twitter.
- AMC Entertainment – serving on the Weil team representing the Company in earnings miss securities class actions and related shareholder derivative litigation in the Southern District of New York.
- Churchill Capital Corp. IV – serving on the Weil team representing the Company in federal and state court stockholder litigations arising out of its de-SPAC merger with Lucid Motors.
- A global investment bank – serving on the Weil team representing the bank in connection with a variety of state and federal regulatory inquiries.
Tanner also has a committed pro bono practice. Of late, he has been working with the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law in connection with its Election Protection program and voter hotline service.
Tanner currently serves on the Junior Board of New Alternatives for Children, a charitable organization that provides healthcare and social services for medically complex children and their families in the New York City area.
Tanner received his J.D. from Osgoode Hall Law School, where he received a number of honors, including the Gold Medal for the Class of 2018. While in law school, he also served as Executive Editor of the Osgoode Hall Law Journal. He received his B.A. from McGill University.
Following law school, Tanner served as a judicial law clerk for judges of the Court of Appeal for Ontario.