Biography
Sandra Dawn Grannum is a Partner in the Business Litigation Group at Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP where she serves on the Firm’s governing board and is co-chair of the Firm’s nationwide Securities and Financial Services Litigation Team. Sandy is a Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers and recognized by Chambers for Securities Law. She concentrates her practice on securities class actions and broker/dealer arbitration, litigation, mediation and regulatory defense. Sandy has written and lectured widely on securities and ethics issues. She assists in preparing clients for DOL’s PTE 2020-02. She chairs the full-day PLI Securities Arbitration Seminar conducted annually in New York City and regularly speaks at the SIFMA C&L Annual Conference, ABA Conferences and on other CLE programs addressing securities, broker-dealer, ethics, DEI and employment law issues. Sandy was formerly a member of the FINRA National Arbitration and Mediation Committee (NAMC) and one of 13 individuals on the 2016 FINRA Dispute Resolution Task Force. Sandy earned her law degree from Harvard Law School and her bachelor’s degree from New York University. She began her career as a litigation associate at the New York law firm of Cravath, Swaine & Moore before moving to Tenzer Greenblatt to practice securities litigation. Sandy moved in-house to be an Associate General Counsel handling securities litigation at PaineWebber (now UBS Financial Services) in 1997. In November 2001, she became Senior Vice President and Senior Associate General Counsel in UBS’s Employment Law Unit. In 2003, she formed her own firm, Davidson & Grannum, with a former PaineWebber/UBS colleague. She joined Drinker in January 2016 and that firm merged to become Faegre Drinker in February 2020.