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Litigation - Securities - Chicago, Illinois
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Consistently labeled a “rising” and “future star” by nationwide legal directories, Karl R. Barnickol has cultivated an extensive litigation practice that mainly concerns the defense of complex mass tort and class action cases. In particular, Karl handles fraud and negligence claims against content providers and software developers, securities and corporate governance litigation, and civil and criminal antitrust investigations and actions. However, his practice is not l...
H. Nicholas Berberian is chair of the firm’s Securities & Commodities Litigation practice group. He has represented financial services firms and their employees for more than 35 years before federal and state courts, regulatory agencies, arbitration panels and mediators with respect to a wide range of litigation and regulatory matters. These matters have included securities class actions, mass actions, lawsuits and arbitrations involving investors and employment practices at financi...
Jim Figliulo is a trial lawyer with more than 40 years of experience in business-related litigation and a founding partner of Figliulo & Silverman. He has a track record of success in jury and bench trials in federal and state courts, and arbitrations. He has represented clients in a wide variety of business and real estate related disputes. Jim also has served as an arbitrator and mediator. He also has extensive appellate court experience, including oral arguments before the U.S. Supreme...
Patrick Fitzgerald is a seasoned trial lawyer and experienced investigator whose practice focuses on internal investigations, government enforcement matters and civil litigation. Prior to joining Skadden in 2012, Mr. Fitzgerald most recently served as the U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois. Appointed in 2001 by President George W. Bush, he was the longest-serving U.S. Attorney ever in Chicago. In this capacity, he led numerous high-profile investigations and prosecutions, inc...
Matthew Gehringer focuses his practice in the area of professional liability and complex commercial litigation. He regularly represents attorneys and law firms in matters involving professional negligence and other related claims, and now also serves as General Counsel for Perkins Coie LLP. In his years of practice, he has successfully represented law firms in claims alleging professional negligence; parties in complex contract litigation, ranging from acquisition agreement disputes to insura...
Al is a frequent writer and lecturer on the financial markets, financial regulation, and corporate governance. As an adjunct professor of law at Northwestern University Law School, he teaches courses on the regulation of derivative products and the financial markets. He also has served as an adjunct professor in the Graduate Program in Financial Services Law at IIT – Chicago Kent College of Law, where he taught courses on the regulation of money managers. Al is a co-author of the forthc...
Matthew R. Kipp concentrates in complex commercial litigation and governmental investigations. His experience includes representing clients in federal, state and arbitral tribunals, and in all phases of litigation, at both the trial and appellate levels. Mr. Kipp has represented a variety of companies or their audit committees in investigations by the Securities and Exchange Commission into alleged accounting irregularities and improper business practices, including General Mills, Inc., The H...
Jonathan is a trial lawyer who focuses on complex, high-exposure commercial litigation matters, including, but not limited to, breach of contract, business torts, fraud, antitrust and unfair trade practices, securities fraud, class action defense and consumer fraud. He manages all facets of the adversarial process, including developing pre-litigation strategy, pursuing injunctive relief, and acting as lead counsel through trials and hearings before state and federal courts and administrative ...
Michael D. Sher represents clients in complex civil litigation and in business-related criminal investigations, trials and appeals in federal and state judicial and administrative proceedings. Chambers USA (2010) reports that Michael “has a stellar reputation among peers for his ‘first rate’ performance in court.” Michael has also been selected by his peers for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America (within Commercial Litigation and Litigation-Securities). Michael is...
Pete has broad-based experience representing clients in sophisticated business disputes for more than 30 years in state and federal courts and has consistently achieved his client’s objectives, employing sound judgment, careful analysis and aggressive determination. Pete has extensive experience and has achieved outstanding results representing law firms and lawyers on professional responsibilities, fee disputes and claims of legal malpractice. He has significant experience defending in...
Chuck Smith has represented a broad array of U.S. and international companies, as well as their top executives, in complex regulatory investigations and litigation. Mr. Smith has advised corporations and individuals in many regulatory and internal investigation matters, including enforcement matters before the SEC, CFTC, FINRA, the Department of Justice, and international and state regulators. This work has included a number of high-profile investigations under the Foreign Corrupt Practices A...
Tina L. Winer has represented clients in matters arising from investment and employment disputes for more than twenty years. Tina’s practice focuses primarily on representing financial services firms and their employees in arbitration and mediation, as well as regulatory investigations and litigation in federal and state court. Tina's employment-related matters include class action, arbitration and mediation of claims alleging discrimination, harassment, wrongful termination, constructi...
Viviana Aldous is an associate in Quinn Emanuel’s Chicago office. Her practice focuses on complex commercial litigation and appeals. Viviana has represented companies and individuals before state and federal courts and arbitration tribunals in a wide array of matters, including securities and derivative lawsuits, environmental lawsuits, class actions and other complex matters, and appeals. Prior to joining Quinn Emanuel, Viviana clerked for the Honorable Jacques L. Wiener, Jr. of the Un...
Litigation - Securities Definition
Regardless of the setting, a securities litigator must be a persuasive advocate who works to achieve the best possible outcome for the client. To do that, an attorney practicing in the area of securities litigation must understand the client’s legal and business needs, and also have a comprehensive understanding of federal and state securities laws and regulations, and related common law. Securities law has evolved dramatically over the past two decades and continues to develop. For example, just recently in June 2011, the United States Supreme Court in Janus Capital Group, Inc. v. First Derivative Traders, No. 09-525, narrowed the scope of primary liability in federal securities fraud actions to those with “ultimate authority” over the allegedly false statements.
Securities disputes frequently spawn parallel civil, regulatory or even criminal actions or investigations. Effective securities litigators rely on experience and judgment to zealously represent clients while remaining sensitive to the potential implications of positions or strategies to those clients in other settings.
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