Practice Profile: Axinn, Veltrop & Harkrider partner Craig M. Reiser represents companies and prominent individuals in high-stakes and often bet-the-company litigation matters that threaten clients’ reputations and bottom lines.

Reiser is lead counsel to chess Grandmaster Magnus Carlsen in a high-profile case that has gripped the chess world. In the past year, Reiser has also led the defense of Alvogen in a sprawling multidistrict litigation alleging a conspiracy to fix prices of generic drugs, as well as in a string of state and federal cases arising from a nationwide effort to hold drug manufacturers responsible for the opioid epidemic. He also represents an Am Law 100 firm in a legal malpractice case brought by the rapper 50 Cent.