By Ross Todd | March 15, 2021
Liu and her colleagues recently released a white paper analyzing why the percentage of securities class actions targeting issuers based outside the U.S. jumped from 15% in 2019 to just over 27% last year even though the total number of securities suits was down.
By Stephen Blake | March 2, 2021
Lawsuits related to special purpose acquisition companies will have many similarities to traditional securities and M&A litigation, but will also develop their own rubrics given the unique features of the SPAC model, writes Stephen Blake of Simpson Thacher & Bartlett.
By Ross Todd | February 5, 2021
Jim Barz and Darren Robbins of Robbins Geller Rudman & Dowd got sign-off this week on the ninth-largest PSLRA settlement ever.
By Ross Todd | January 27, 2021
A federal judge found plaintiffs hadn't alleged that real estate finance company Velocity Financial could have known the extent of the coronavirus pandemic at the time of its January 2020 IPO—meaning there was no need for any disclosures about the pandemic.
By Lucy Wang, Joseph E. Floren, Bob O'Leary and Josh Rapoport | December 11, 2020
Federal forum provisions remain an attractive tool that companies should consider in an effort to avoid the costs and uncertainty of duplicative class actions.
By Ross Todd | December 7, 2020
The $125,000 fine that the casual dining chain agreed to pay for misleading investors about the depth of its pandemic-spawned problems doesn't seem to provide a recipe for further private actions.
Litigation Daily | Expert Opinion
By Nicolas Grabar, Adam Brenneman and Jared Gerber | November 5, 2020
With the current wave of securities litigation against SPACs, sponsors might want to approach the de-SPAC process more like a traditional IPO even if the process otherwise resembles a merger.
Litigation Daily | Expert Opinion
By Kristen Seeger, Alexa Perez and Nilofer Umar | October 28, 2020
Lawsuits driven by social justice movements can not only create meaningful litigation costs but also crisis management issues stemming from increased public attention and media coverage.
By Ross Todd | October 27, 2020
The rare securities class action trial, only the second ever in Australia, resulted in a defense win for lawyers at Herbert Smith Freehills and their client, engineering firm Worley.
By Ross Todd | October 2, 2020
"I'm excited to see the opportunities that are created for women because of this settlement," says Julie Goldsmith Reiser of Cohen Milstein Sellers & Toll.
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