Dove-tailing with our fresh look, Berman Tabacco is pleased to welcome three new associates to the firm. In April, Colleen Cleary and Carl Hammarskjold joined as associates in the San Francisco office, while Nicole Maruzzi joined as an associate in the Boston office.
Colleen Cleary
Colleen focuses on representing consumers and businesses in complex multidistrict antitrust class actions. She is currently a member of the litigation team for several of our market manipulation cases, bringing her zeal to prosecuting claims of collusion between major banks to manipulate financial benchmark rates, including the Yen Libor, the Euroyen Tibor, Euribor, Swiss franc LIBOR and the Canadian Dollar Offered Rate.
Prior to joining the firm, Colleen worked as a class action litigator in the Bay Area representing consumers harmed by anticompetitive conduct and defrauded investors in a securities class action. While at the University of San Francisco School of Law, Colleen worked at the Federal Trade Commission investigating anticompetitive civil mergers in the health care industry, and the Department of Justice’s Antitrust Division assisting in the prosecution of criminal price-fixing conspiracies.
Carl Hammarskjold
Carl is another addition to our antitrust team, helping advance our cases against companies that are alleged to conspire to fix and raise prices. Currently, Carl is a member of the litigation teams on the firm’s market manipulation cases including: Australian Dollar, Canadian Offered Dollar Rate, Euribor, Mexican Bonds, Swiss franc, and Yen-LIBOR/Euroyen TIBOR.
Carl is rated an AV® Preeminent™ by Martindale-Hubbell® and was selected by Super Lawyers as a Northern California Rising Star in 2016 and 2017. Before joining Berman Tabacco, Carl practiced at a San Francisco-based plaintiffs’ firm specializing in antitrust class actions and other complex, multidistrict litigation in federal court. He was also a business litigator at a large, national law firm. During law school at the University of San Francisco School of Law, Carl served as an extern for the Honorable William H. Alsup at the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California.
Nicole Maruzzi
Nicole focuses her practice on complex securities and consumer litigation. Currently, Nicole is a member of the team bringing a “books and records” action against UnitedHealth Group, Inc., seeking to compel the inspection of records to evaluate whether UnitedHealth’s board of directors breached their fiduciary duties by failing to monitor the company’s policies and procedures with regard to Medicare billing. That failure is alleged to have resulted in the submission of invalid claims to Medicare in violation of the federal False Claims Act.
Prior to joining the firm, Nicole represented clients in civil rights and employment discrimination litigation. Nicole’s prior practice provided a myriad of courtroom opportunities, strengthening her skills as a litigator. Prior to that, Nicole worked as a law clerk at a mid-sized law firm representing doctors in medical malpractice litigation while also obtaining her law degree from Suffolk University Law School.
“We are very excited to have Colleen, Carl and Nicole join the firm,” commented Boston Managing Partner Kathleen M. Donovan-Maher. “They each bring a unique skillset and devotion to justice.We are proud to have them on our team.”
“These are great attorneys who will help us expand both our securities, consumer and antitrust practices,” added San Francisco Managing Partner Nicole Lavallee.