Tyler W. Hudson

Tyler (Ty) Hudson is a partner whose litigation practice focuses on complex business, securities, and antitrust litigation. Ty has represented both plaintiffs and defendants in individual and class action matters in federal and state courts across the country. He also has handled matters in negotiation, mediation, arbitration, and on appeal.

Ty began his career clerking for the Honorable John W. Lungstrum, then-Chief Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Kansas. He then spent five years in Washington D.C., working for Jones Day and the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”).

At Jones Day, as part of the trial practice group, Ty represented a broad spectrum of large corporate clients involved in complex litigation, including individual and class action disputes, such as breach of contract, financial fraud, RICO, intellectual property, antitrust, securities, and white collar crimes.

At the SEC, Ty worked in the Enforcement Division as a Senior Counsel in the Financial Fraud Task Force. He led investigations and prosecuted individuals and companies suspected of committing federal securities laws violations, with an emphasis on financial frauds such as stock options backdating and accounting manipulation.

Ty’s experience includes:

• Representing class plaintiffs in several antitrust class actions pending across the country
• Representing State of Kansas in a contract dispute with tobacco companies arising from the Master Settlement Agreement
• Representing regional business in contract dispute arising from lease agreement
• Representing regional business in consumer class action litigation
• Representing individual in intellectual property and contract dispute with his former company