Ashley F. Heintz

Ashley Heintz represents companies, directors, and officers in high-stakes matters and class action litigation throughout the country. She has significant experience handling securities fraud class actions, shareholder disputes, internal investigations relating to shareholder demands, whistleblower complaints, corporate compliance, and SEC investigations and inquiries. She is also a trusted advisor and strategically counsels companies, boards of directors, and senior management on disclosure issues, fiduciary duties, regulatory and internal investigations, ESG (environmental, social, and governance), and other governance and compliance matters.

Ashley was named one of the top seven securities litigators in the country under 40 years old by Law 360 in 2021. She has argued two appeals in the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit and regularly argues case-dispositive motions in federal and state trial courts. She played a major role in defending Jarden in the highly publicized appraisal dispute in Delaware Chancery Court (In re Appraisal of Jarden Corporation); The Southern Company and certain of its officers in securities litigation; and Southern Company Services in a novel ERISA class action.

Ashley serves as a member of the Advisory Committee of the Women in Securities Litigation Network. Ashley is also active in the Atlanta community, where she is a member of the board of directors of the Atlanta Volunteer Lawyers Foundation and the Zoo Atlanta Leadership Council. Ashley recently served as an adjunct professor at the University of Georgia School of Law, teaching Securities Litigation & Enforcement. She is a graduate of the LEAD Atlanta Class of 2018.