Sentences with phrase «on shareholder derivative actions»

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Rigrodsky & Long, P.A., with offices in Wilmington, Delaware, Garden City, New York, and San Francisco, California, has recovered hundreds of millions of dollars on behalf of investors and achieved substantial corporate governance reforms in numerous cases nationwide, including federal securities fraud actions, shareholder class actions, and shareholder derivative actions.

Former Managing Partner Marc Gross has over thirty years» experience litigating securities fraud and derivative actions, is a Vice President of the Institute of Law and Economic Policy, and frequently speaks at educational and legal forums on issues affecting shareholders.

The comptroller's office on Monday announced what is known as a derivative lawsuit that allows shareholders to file legal actions on the behalf of a corporation when its officers or directors have failed to meet their required fiduciary responsibilities.

Andi is an experienced litigator focusing her practice on complex commercial litigation, including shareholder and corporate governance disputes, fraud, RICO, land use, construction, shareholder derivative suits, business torts, supply chain, class actions, product liability, trade secrets and non-compete disputes.

Chris Groves focuses his practice on a variety of commercial litigation matters, including contract disputes, insurance coverage litigation, bankruptcy adversary proceedings, employment - related class actions, consumer class actions, corporate takeover litigation, shareholder derivative litigation, patent infringement ligation, and license agreement disputes.

The year 2017 saw two notable decisions in the area of shareholder derivative and class actions, one granting a corporation's motion to dismiss a derivative suit based on the results of a special litigation committee investigation, the other upholding the denial of class certification on the grounds that the proposed class representative could not adequately represent the class.

His other case experience includes the trial and appeal of dissolution and shareholder derivative actions which established the scope of the business judgment rule in the state of Connecticut and a murder case that was a case study on the issue of time of death in Dr. Henry Lee's book Cracking Cases: The Science of Solving Crime.

Mr. Kramer's practice focuses on numerous forms of complex litigation, including class actions, bankruptcy litigation, and shareholder derivative lawsuits.

While Nick's general litigation practice focuses on real estate and construction law and personal injury and product liability law, he also handles a number of other complex commercial disputes, including misappropriation of trade secrets and shareholder derivative actions.

Lamb's recent client successes include securing a dismissal on behalf of the board of a publicly traded company of three shareholder derivative and class action complaints in Ohio and Texas challenging the fairness of a $ 2.5 billion merger transaction and prevailing in an arbitration involving a dispute over the proper accounting treatment of certain items in connection with another client's purchase of a business.

Pursuing claims against directors on behalf of shareholders where there has been questionable conduct by the directors (known as derivative actions)

Obtained the complete dismissal on summary judgment for the directors of the nation's largest Korean - American bank in a shareholder derivative action.

Benjamin Britz advises clients on all aspects of corporate governance including government investigations, shareholder class action and derivative litigation, and corporate compliance matters.

Brought a shareholder derivative and shareholder oppression action that ultimately forced the seven - figure purchase of the minority shareholder's stock in a prominent software development company on grounds including misuse of corporate assets, usurpation of corporate opportunities for the personal benefit of the majority shareholder and mismanagement of the company

A corporate director or shareholder brought a derivative action on behalf of the company when an alleged wrong happened to the company rather than its shareholders.

Mr. Girard currently serves on the leadership team in the Target and Sony data breach actions; serves as lead counsel in derivative litigation on behalf of Wal - Mart shareholders arising out of alleged bribery in Mexico, lead counsel for commodities investors in litigation arising out of the collapse of a commodities futures merchant, and lead counsel in a multi-district «pay for delay» antitrust proceeding against major pharmaceutical companies.

In addition, we represent companies in private shareholder and derivative actions and have conducted internal and special investigations covering accounting, disclosure, insider trading, and other matters on behalf of audit and specially formed board committees of issuing companies.

Obtained dismissal, affirmed on appeal, of a shareholder derivative action, and of multi-billion dollar claims brought by former CEO Maurice «Hank» Greenberg.

The Chancellor of Delaware's Court of Chancery yesterday urged the Delaware Supreme Court to revise Delaware law on preclusion in shareholder derivative actions.

It also rejected the argument that a multiple derivative action comprises two derivative actions (one by the shareholders on behalf of the parent company against the subsidiary for its failure to sue the wrongdoers and one by the parent company on behalf of the subsidiary against the wrongdoers), neither of which was maintainable (the first because the subsidiary owed the parent no duty to sue the wrongdoers and the second because the parent company was in control of the subsidiary).

Filed by San Francisco - based attorney Jeremiah Hallisey, the legal action is reportedly a «shareholder derivative suit» filed on behalf of Facebook's shareholders against the company's leadership team.