Investor & shareholder rights lawyers

Joseph A. Fonti’s practice joins pension-fund and investor stewardship with class certification, appellate advocacy, and trial-ready securities litigation.

David R. Scott represents public funds and other investors in securities, mortgage-backed-securities, corporate-governance, and cross-border recovery matters.

Andrew Stoltmann represents investors in arbitration and securities cases and advocates reforms addressing unpaid FINRA awards and investor recovery.

Jonathan D. Uslaner represents investors in securities class actions and separate investor claims, with a record spanning Wells Fargo, Bank of America, Cobalt, and Genworth.

Daniel E. Baron advises on private-market data, financial technology, securities, fund governance, digital assets, and cross-border transactions.

Julie G. Reiser represents institutional investors in securities and derivative cases, including the Countrywide mortgage-backed-securities settlement and Alphabet workplace-governance litigation.

Max W. Berger represents institutional investors in securities-fraud and shareholder cases involving corporate gatekeepers, governance reforms, settlement administration, and distribution.

Stuart L. Berman leads Kessler Topaz’s global shareholder-litigation practice, guiding public funds and other large investors through active claims, group proceedings, and direct actions across jurisdictions.

Spencer A. Burkholz has tried securities claims to a jury and litigated structured-finance, health-care, banking, and drug-distribution cases for investors.

Joel Friedlander prosecutes Delaware stockholder cases through trial and appeal, with a record including Rural/Metro, Activision Blizzard, and Mindbody.

Nicole Lavallee represents public funds and other investors in securities class actions, direct actions, and derivative litigation.

Hannah Ross represents investors in securities litigation involving investigation, discovery, trial preparation, and settlement evaluation.

Darren J. Check helps public funds and other large investors identify securities claims, manage portfolio data, and choose among class, direct, opt-in, arbitration, and cross-border recovery paths.

Joseph W. Cotchett represents investors in financial litigation and has more than six decades of trial experience.

Joseph J. Tabacco Jr. represents investors in securities, mortgage-backed-securities, and benchmark-rate litigation, including CalPERS and IndyMac matters.

Jason A. Forge’s securities practice combines appellate reversals, jury verdicts, and discovery-driven preparation against major public companies.

Michael J. Dowd has taken disputed securities facts through jury trial, post-trial judgment, appeal, remand, and a final class resolution.

Serena P. Hallowell leads direct actions and securities cases for major investors, with a record spanning class recoveries, opt-outs, and New Jersey RICO claims.

Jonathan Gardner represents public pension funds and other investors in securities matters involving Uber, Barrick, Hewlett-Packard, Endo, Lehman Brothers, MF Global, and options backdating.

John Rizio-Hamilton litigates securities matters involving Signet, Archegos, banks, bonds, iRhythm, and Silvergate and co-leads his firm’s securities department.

Salvatore J. Graziano builds securities cases through deep factual records, trial preparation, and a prosecutor’s instinct for the story judges and juries need to understand.

Emma Gilmore’s securities practice combines cross-border evidence development, appellate doctrine, and close control of the pleading record.

James A. Harrod treats cross-border securities work as a problem of mapping: identify the transaction, the governing law, the available forum, and the investor’s actual recovery path before litigation begins.

Michael B. Eisenkraft litigates securities and antitrust matters involving trading systems, market structure, mortgage-backed securities, and complex financial products.