| Representative Experience |
Represented an officer in a securities fraud class action litigation arising out of a company’s new product announcement and related revenue forecasts |
Represent a big four accounting firm in defense of a federal securities class action alleging accounting and disclosure violations in government and construction contracts |
Advise mutual funds, hedge funds and other institutional investors as potential securities fraud claims, and litigation options, including whether to persue litigation, whether to participate in class action litigation and whether and on what terms to settle such matters. |
Successfully represented acquirors in several different putative class action suits challenging the negotiated merger consideration as inadequate, defeating motions for preliminary injunction seeking to enjoin the challenge transaction
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Several of our partners are on AIG's select list of approved counsel for the defense of securities claims insured by AIG |
Represented management in a proxy contest litigation in Delaware Chancery Court |
Represented a company and its directors in a shareholder class action challenging merger and related takeover and 13D litigation in Delaware court |
Acted as counsel to an investment advisor in connection with an SEC investigation regarding trading practices |
Defending an issuer and its officers/directors in a “hot IPO” securities class action alleging manipulation of post-offering, after-market prices |
Acted as counsel to a fund manager in “market timing” matters, including an SEC investigation |
Represented a big four accounting firm in defense of a federal securities class action alleging fraudulent revenue recognition |
Represented special committees of directors in several corporate litigations challenging going private transactions and other change-in-control transactions
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Acted as counsel to an investment advisor in a dispute with a pension fund over an investment strategy |
Represented a company and its officers and directors in defense of a federal securities class actions |
Acted as counsel to an institutional investor in takeover litigation against trustees of closed-end mutual fund |
Acted as counsel to a big four firm in a variety of civil actions and related regulatory investigations |
Represented outside directors in a 10b-5 case and obtained dismissal on a motion to dismiss |
Represent a hedge fund in common law fraud and c. 93A claims arising out of a 200-million-euro private placement investment in a French reinsurer |
Represented a national broker-dealer firm in securing a “mandatory” non-opt-out class settlement of securities fraud claims pending in state and federal courts and the NASD, across the country |
Represent the independent directors of a public registrant in an SEC investigation into whether the registrant and its management properly disclosed the executive officers of the registrant and whether one member of management "practiced accounting" before the SEC in violation of a previously-issued bar order
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