Rebekah Whittington O'Brien advises clients on complex business and commercial litigation, with a particular focus on securities enforcement matters, internal investigations, and data privacy and cybersecurity litigation.
Rebekah represents broker-dealers, investment advisers, and financial institutions in regulatory investigations, enforcement proceedings, and internal investigations. She regularly appears before regulators and in state and federal courts across the country and provides practical, business-oriented guidance to clients navigating high-stakes regulatory scrutiny and litigation risk.
Beyond securities enforcement and data privacy and cybersecurity litigation, Rebekah also counsels clients in cybersecurity and data privacy compliance, construction and antitrust litigation, and complex arbitration. Rebekah regularly advises businesses across sectors on cybersecurity and privacy compliance matters and provides practical and actionable advice on complex and evolving privacy regulations.
Prior to joining Eversheds Sutherland, Rebekah served as an extern for Chief Justice David E. Nahmias of the Supreme Court of Georgia.
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- Successfully appealed a case on behalf of a major broker-dealer involving conflicts of interest disclosures under the Investment Advisers Act of 1940, resulting in the First Circuit vacating the judgment and remanding the case back to the District Court. This precedent-setting decision impacts the securities industry's legal standards for materiality, causation, and damages going forward.
- Represented an electric cooperative in lawsuit to enforce ownership agreement against co-owner of nuclear power plant.
- Represent industrial contractor in dispute over installation of piping and structural steel involving claims for delay, disruption and defective engineering.
- Represent industrial contractor in 9-figure, four-party dispute arising out of the construction of a major commuter rail line involving, among other things, defective specifications, utility relocation, hundreds of change orders, station construction and temporary power.
- Represents a food producer in nationwide price-fixing antitrust class action litigation and in related litigation and investigations.
- Georgia
- Northern District of Georgia
- Court of Appeals Eleventh Circuit
- Supreme Court of Georgia
- First Circuit
- J.D., with high honors, Emory University School of Law,
Editor, Emory Law Journal; Order of the Coif
- B.S., summa cum laude, Florida State University