Tracee E.Davis

Partner

"I’m a business lawyer and legal advisor who knows how to handle disputes and to assess and address complex issues on behalf of financial institutions and other corporate clients both in and out of court."


More About Tracee

Tracee serves as lead trial and class action defense counsel in litigating and arbitrating commercial and business disputes. Tracee represents and advises clients across all industries on a range of complex matters, including ESG, data security, and risk and litigation avoidance. She defends businesses against regulatory and statutory claims, with an emphasis on banking and financial services regulations, breach of fiduciary duty, breach of contract, business tort, and fraud and misrepresentation claims. She has litigated real estate, business dissolutions, and civil rights discrimination lawsuits.

Tracee counsels C-suites and board directors on corporate governance matters, including strategic development, alignment, and design and implementation of ESG policies and practices. In addition, Tracee serves as a private commercial arbitrator/mediator, through SSAM Alternative Dispute Resolution LLC, combining her extensive legal knowledge with her goal of providing business clients with practical, cost-efficient legal solutions. Courts routinely appoint Tracee to serve as a Court-Appointed Receiver, Referee, and Special Master to facilitate enforcement of court orders in the disposition of complex business disputes.

Tracee has built a reputation for delivering results both in and out of court using precise business-oriented legal analysis and in finding creative and practical solutions swiftly, efficiently, and always with a mindful eye on costs. Tracee’s ability to provide clients with consistent results stems from two unique experiences: first, she spent many years as an attorney in one of the busiest complex commercial courts in the country, Manhattan’s Commercial Division, handling as almost a special master or the equivalent of a magistrate judge, the most challenging, complex, and oftentimes cyclical disputes financial and other markets regularly face. Second, she stays engaged in the development of commercial law and courtroom procedures through her leadership roles in the bar association.

She served as the chair of the 2,000-member Commercial and Federal Litigation Section of the New York State Bar Association, a group which laid much of the ground work in establishing New York’s Commercial Division, one of the first commercial courts in the country, and she currently serves as chair the Judiciary Committee of the New York City Bar Association, which reviews the qualifications of all elected or appointed federal, state, and local judges sitting in the City of New York. She is also a member of the Association of Defense Trial Attorneys (ADTA).

  • JD, American University, Washington College of Law
  • BA, Montclair State University
  • New Jersey
  • New York
  • US Court of Appeals, Second Circuit
  • US District Court, Eastern District of New York
  • US District Court, Southern District of New York