Securities and Corporate Governance Litigation
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Recent Developments
- The Financial Times included the Finisar class certification decision in its 2019 list of North America Most Innovative Litigation Firms
- I spoke at the 25th Annual Stanford Directors' College on June 24, 2019
- I wrote an article on the Supreme Court's Emulex M & A "decision" published in the May 2, 2019 Daily Journal
- I gave a presentation on securities litigation on a November 2018 podcast
- Again defeated class certification in securities case on the basis of a lack of price impact -- only the second time this has been ordered in an efficient market security since Halliburton II. In re Finisar Corp Sec. Litig., No. 11-0152, 2019 WL 2247750 (N.D. Cal. May 24, 2019)
- Dismissal of mass-plaintiff securities case affirmed by Ninth Circuit on January 7, 2019. Strudley v. Santa Cruz County Bank, No. 5:15-cv-05106-EJD, 2017 WL 4355129 (N.D. Cal. Sept. 29, 2017)
Recent articles and presentations
Basic Guide To The Safe Harbor
As introduced at the 25th Annual Stanford Directors' College on June 24, 2019
Strategies for defense attorneys to address Emulex demurral
Published in Daily Journal May 2, 2019
Securities Litigation Podcast presentation
November 20, 2018
What Is 10b-5?
Securities and Exchange Commission Rule 10b-5 (17 C.F.R. ยง240.10b-5) is the legal foundation for most US federal law securities fraud claims.
The Rule states:
It shall be unlawful for any person, directly or indirectly, by the use of any means or instrumentality of interstate commerce, or of the mails or of any facility of any national securities exchange,
(a) To employ any device, scheme, or artifice to defraud,
(b) To make any untrue statement of a material fact or to omit to state a material fact necessary in order to make the statements made, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading, or
(c) To engage in any act, practice, or course of business which operates or would operate as a fraud or deceit upon any person,
in connection with the purchase or sale of any security.