Shareholder Corporate & Securities Litigation

We are committed to representing shareholder plaintiffs in corporate and securities litigation. The Firm files these cases as class actions, meaning that selected representatives of a group of like-situated investors assert claims against corporations or financial institutions to recover damages for the class as a whole. Aggregating the claims of many injured investors in a class action makes particular sense where the financial harm to any one investor is insufficient to justify extremely costly litigation against a well-funded defendant.

In corporate class action litigation, shareholders can assert claims against management and directors of a company for violating their fiduciary duties in connection with corporate transactions, such as so-called “going-private” deals. In such circumstances, the goals of the litigation can be to increase the deal price, compel the public disclosure of important facts to assist investors in deciding whether to approve the deal, and/or to improve deal terms to ensure fairness and eliminate coercion.

In federal securities fraud class action litigation, investors injured because of wrongful conduct, including the dissemination of fraudulent statements to the investing public, can sue to recover the difference between the fraudulently inflated price of their shares and its true market value. In addition to recouping investor losses, securities fraud litigation also can produce significant corporate governance reforms designed to deter and reduce repeated misconduct.