Practice Areas
Fraud continues to permeate the financial markets. Corporate scandals cast a pall over the integrity of national and international markets and drain investor resources. With significant media coverage of high profile securities fraud class actions like Enron and corporate governance cases like In re Walt Disney Derivative Litigation, national attention has focused on ensuring that corporate fiduciaries, including corporate directors, satisfy their obligations to both the companies they oversee and their shareholders. Likewise, much emphasis has been placed on protecting the rights of minority shareholders in financial transactions that coercively extinguish their ownership stakes for inadequate or unfair consideration.
We are dedicated to providing legal services of the highest quality to shareholders of both private and publicly traded corporations in litigation involving corporate governance, shareholder rights, and violations of federal and state securities laws.
As a Delaware-based law firm, Rigrodsky & Long can effectively litigate complex cases involving the corporate laws of both Delaware and other states (which often look to Delaware law for guidance). Such cases include corporate class action litigation to protect the direct financial interests of shareholders against under-priced or coercive transactions or shareholder derivative litigation to, among other things, recover money for the company arising from the misconduct of its officers and/or directors. We are also committed to representing defrauded investors in federal securities fraud litigation.