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Complex
Business Litigation | Government
Enforcement | Intellectual
Property | Securities
What do we do?
We represent public and private companies and their directors and officers in high-stakes, prominent securities and shareholder litigation throughout the nation. We are also regularly called upon by our clients to defend claims related to hostile take-overs, "poison pills" and fiduciary duty claims. Our litigators frequently serve as general or special counsel to public companies and their boards. We are leading players in the defense of the investment management industry, which has faced ever-increasing litigation and regulatory scrutiny in recent years. Ropes & Gray has defended more mutual fund complexes and their independent trustees in market timing, late trading and excessive fee claims than any other law firm.
We also represent clients facing investigations, enforcement investigations and actions, administrative proceedings, and civil and criminal federal court actions initiated by the Securities and Exchange Commission or other regulatory bodies. For a further description of our securities enforcement work click here.
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Rachel
Rubenson (Columbia Law School '07) and Dan Maher (New York
University School of Law '02) work on the State Street litigation
described below. Both are alumni of our summer program. |
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What have we done lately?
- Representing State Street Corporation in several purported
class and individual actions arising out of the subprime mortgage
crisis. Plaintiffs allege that State Street breached its fiduciary
duties as investment manager by exposing certain active fixed
income funds to mortgage-related financial instruments that adversely
affected the funds' investment returns. For a description of
an associate's role in this matter, click here.
- Representing Brooks Automation, a manufacture in the semiconductor
industry, in federal and state litigation related to Brooks'
stock option grant practices. For a description of an associate's
role in this matter, click here.
- Won summary judgment for two mutual fund managers against shareholder
claims in separate federal courts that the managers charged excessive
advisory fees. These decisions served to establish important
new law in the area.
- Representing former officer of a public company with respect to an informal SEC inquiry and a shareholder derivative litigation alleging stock options back-dating. For a description of an associate's role in this matter, click here.
- Obtained Second Circuit Victory for Harvard University in its pursuit of an international class arbitration against a Russian oil and gas company to enforce dividend rights under investments in American Depository Receipts.
- Representing American Dental Partners, a leading business partner
to dental group practices, in securities fraud class actions
and derivative litigation regarding alleged false statements,
click here.
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Thomas Brown (Harvard Law School '06) works with partner
and Securities Litigation practice group leader Randy Bodner on
multiple actions in state and federal court defending Brooks
Automation from charges of stock options back-dating. |
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