Sara J. van Vliet
Sara van Vliet counsels clients in the area of complex business disputes. She has extensive experience representing clients in international commercial arbitrations before the International Court of Arbitration of the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC). Sara represents clients in shareholder and securities litigation, including shareholder derivative actions and putative class actions alleging violations of federal securities laws. Sara handles appeals in federal and state courts. Her appellate experience includes briefing several matters in the U.S. Court of the Appeals for the First Circuit and arguing an appeal before a three-judge panel of the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts.
Sara also represents individual and corporate clients in criminal, civil and regulatory investigations conducted by the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), and other federal and state agencies. Her experience includes defending corporate executives in SEC enforcement actions and guiding corporate clients in responding to DOJ subpoenas. Sara also counsels clients with respect to internal investigations and corporate compliance matters.
Sara served as a law clerk for the Honorable Chief Justice Chase T. Rogers of the Connecticut Supreme Court. Prior to joining Day Pitney, she was an associate at an international law firm in Boston.