Shareholder & Derivative Litigation

Complex matters explained in plain language.

Because protecting your company’s reputation and assets is at the core of our work, we know how essential it is to take complex transactions and relationships and simplify them into plain language. Representing officers & directors of public and private companies in shareholder and derivative litigation requires analyzing, understanding, and explaining complex transactions and relationships to judges and juries, who may not have financial or business backgrounds. Making the complex understandable is a critical part in how we help our clients.

Our Clients Include:

  • Public & Private Companies
  • Directors & Officers
  • Auditors
  • Investment Research Firms
  • Pharmaceutical & Biotech companies

Representative Matters

  • Representing an outside auditor in a securities class action brought by investors based on public offerings of common stock.
  • Representing an investment research firm in securities litigation brought by a Receiver in control of several defunct hedge funds, asserting claims of contribution under Section 10(b), and common law aiding and ab
  • Representing an outside auditor against securities claims brought by several bondholders who opted out of a class action and asserted Section 10(b) and Section 18 claims. Numerous state law claims were dis
  • Representing the former President of a publicly traded bank and credit card company in securities class action litigation in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, alleging insider trading under Sec
  • Representing recruitment and employment services corporation and several of its officers and directors in federal securities class action filed in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. Court granted de
  • Represented asset management firm and control personnel in in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York in class action asserting securities fraud violations stemming from company’s disclosure of DOJ and SEC investigations pertaining to foreign commodities contracts.
  • Representing pharmaceutical company and several of its officers in federal securities class action filed in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. District court granted defendants’ motion to dismiss the com
  • Representing biotechnology company and several of its officers in federal securities class action filed in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. District court granted defendants’ motion to dism
  • Representing pharmaceutical company and several of its officers in federal securities class action filed in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York. After converting the defendants’ motion to dismiss to
  • Representing management software corporation and several of its officers and directors in federal securities class action filed in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. Court granted def
  • Representing small ultrasound imaging company and several of its officers and directors in federal securities action filed in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. Court granted
  • Representing former CEO and CFO of a convenience food manufacturing and marketing company in federal securities class action filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey. Court granted defendants’ motion
  • Representing an outside director in shareholder litigation asserting Section 10(b) and Section 20(a) claims and a Breach of Duty of Care claim under Wyoming law. All claims were voluntarily withdrawn by plaintiffs.
  • Representing a Big 4 accounting firm in a series of consolidated securities class actions filed in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, claiming that the accounting firm committed securities vio
  • Representing an investment management firm against claims that the investment management firm had (1) acted outside authority granted to it in an Investment Management Agreement, and (2) violated Pennsylvania and Illinois law by
  • Representing an outside auditor in consolidated shareholder and bondholder class actions arising out of the bankruptcy of a specialty finance company that lent money to health care providers filed in the U.S. District Court for the
  • Representing a publicly traded bank holding company in litigation filed in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Kentucky by an activist investor, asserting state securities law and other claims arising out of an investment ma
  • Representing an outside auditor in more than a dozen class and individual lawsuits in Multidistrict Litigation in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas, asserting Section 10(b) and Section 11 claims. A Motion to
  • Tried to jury defense verdict a securities class action against a leading broker-dealer.