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13 Aug 2008, 10:55 pm
Special thanks to Adam Savett of the Securities Litigation Watch for the complaint in this Fannie Mae Secondary Offering lawsuit. [read post]
10 Jul 2008, 1:55 am
Special thanks to Adam Savett of the Securities Litigation Watch blog (here) for the link to the MRV Communications complaint. [read post]
6 Jul 2008, 12:34 pm
See also Adam Savett's post here on a prior decision in the case. [read post]
22 Jun 2008, 5:06 pm
The Option Backdating Case Resolution Scorecard: Over at the Securities Litigation Watch, Adam Savett has prepared an updated options backdating case resolution scorecard, which can be accessed here. [read post]
10 Jun 2008, 11:07 am
Options Backdating: Cases Now Proceeding From Adam Savett in the RiskMetric's "Governance Blog": Back in February, we took a quick look at the scorecard in the options backdating litigation, tallying up the settlements and dismissals, among other things. [read post]
9 Jun 2008, 2:09 am
It will also be interesting to see if other investor plaintiffs similarly seek to hold the credit rating agencies liable.Special thanks to Adam Savett of the Securities Litigation Watch blog (here) for providing a copy of the HarborView removal petition. [read post]
1 Jun 2008, 10:07 am
Hat tip to Adam Savett of the Securities Litigation Watch blog (here) for providing the heads’ up about the Wireless Facilities settlement Not Just Immune, But Infallible: If you were immensely rich and powerful, you too might well, as did the Sultan of Brunei in 2004, amend the constitution to “declare himself infallible and immune from any obligation to appear in court …and to subject anyone who criticizes him to criminal… [read post]
26 May 2008, 8:58 am
The cases involving outside auditors have tended to be bases where an offering of securities is involved, and the auditors potentially have their own primary liability in connection with the offering.Special thanks to Adam Savett of the Securities Litigation Watch blog (here) for a copy of the National City/Harbor Bank complaint.Run the Numbers: With the addition of last week’s four new subprime and credit-related securities lawsuits, the current tally (refer here) of the… [read post]
17 May 2008, 2:18 pm
And as companies continue to wrestle with these circumstances, additional litigation, like that filed against MGIC, will continue to emerge.Special thanks to Adam Savett of the Securities Litigation Watch blog (here) for a copy of the MGIC complaint.Run the Numbers: With the addition of these two new lawsuits, my running tally (here) of subprime and credit crisis related securities class action lawsuits now stands at 81, of which 41 have been filed during 2008. [read post]
12 May 2008, 8:09 pm
Special thanks to Adam Savett of the Securities Litigation Watch blog (here) for a copy of the Huntington/Sky/Waterfield complaint. [read post]
7 May 2008, 3:44 pm
As Savett discussed in a prior post on his blog (here), one possibility is that the excluded class members might launch a host of individual lawsuits, as Savett shows to be what happened in the Vivendi case.The litigants in the SCOR Holdings case seem to have adopted a two-pronged approach to try to head the castoff foreign litigant problem off at the pass, in a settlement that might truly be described as “global. [read post]
1 May 2008, 3:10 pm
A detailed list of the various pending Tyco opt-out cases, compiled by Adam Savett of the Securities Litigation Watch, can be found here. [read post]
11 Mar 2008, 3:20 pm
The list was passed on to us by Adam Savett (pictured), a RiskMetrics vice president and a former securities litigator who now writes about that world here. [read post]
11 Mar 2008, 9:27 am
Today we released our fifth annual "SCAS 50" report. [read post]
18 Jan 2008, 11:09 am
Adam Savett, Head of Securities Class Action Services for RiskMetrics Group, will host a panel of noted industry experts, including Stuart Grant, Managing Partner at Grant & Eisenhofer, Lyle Roberts, Partner at Dewey & LeBoeuf, and Kevin LaCroix, Director at OakBridge Insurance Services. [read post]
15 Jan 2008, 5:00 pm
According to Adam Savett of Risk Metrics, of the six cases that have gone to verdict since Congress passed substantial securities-fraud litigation in 1995, three have gone for the plaintiffs, and three for the defendants (though one of the defense verdicts was tossed on appeal and currently awaits retrial). [read post]
10 Dec 2007, 3:26 pm
(Thanks to Securities Litigation Watch’s Adam Savett for sending this in.) [read post]
26 Nov 2007, 2:06 pm
It quotes, among others, RiskMetrics Group’s Adam Savett (of Securities Litigation Watch), René Maatman of Dutch pension fund ABP and Association of British Insurers‘ Michael McKersie. [read post]
6 Nov 2007, 11:22 am
And the envelope please Earlier today we released our first-ever Securities Class Action Services (SCAS) 50 Power Rankings Report, which highlights the top 50 plaintiffs law firms by dollar value of securities class action settlements and number of securities class action settlements from 2003 to 2006 in which the law firms served as lead or co-lead counsel. [read post]
3 Jun 2007, 10:58 am
Murray of Murray Frank & Sailer LLP, Adam Savett of Securities Litigation Watch and Stefan Winheller of Winheller Rechtsanwälte for their respective contributions of material. [read post]
