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6 Mar 2007, 10:40 am
For the fourth year, my company (ISS' Securities Class Action Services) has issued its "SCAS 50" report. [read post]
27 Mar 2007, 8:35 am
Yesterday, the Supreme Court granted certiorari to consider whether secondary actors can be held liable to shareholders under a "scheme" liability theory. [read post]
9 May 2007, 11:27 am
The companion paper to our webcast today is now available for public consumption here. [read post]
25 Mar 2009, 8:07 am
According to Adam Savett, Head of RiskMetrics' Securities Class Action Services, "We can expect the number of new cases filed, and thus eventual settlements to continue trending at or above historical levels, due in part to the ongoing expansion of the fallout from the credit crisis. [read post]
20 Dec 2008, 8:02 am
RiskMetrics’ Globalization in Securities Class Actions (registration required), authored by Adam T. [read post]
13 Feb 2011, 11:18 am
"There are some bottom feeders on the plaintiffs' side," said Adam Savett, a director at the Claims Compensation Bureau LLC, which monitors class-action claims for investors. [read post]
2 Mar 2007, 1:23 pm
The comparitive law paper Disney in a Comparative Light (author; with thanks to Adam Savett, now at Securities Litigation Watch, for the notification) explores a number of differences between Delaware and German corporate law, using cases against The Walt Disney Company (NYSE: DIS; opinion) and Mannesmann AG (opinion and press release, both in German) as a starting point. [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 Oct 2010, 1:49 am
According to information compiled by Adam Savett, the Director of Securities Class Actions at the Claims Compensation Bureau, since the enactment of the PSLRA, there have only been nine securities class action lawsuits based on post-PSLRA conduct that have actually been tried to a jury verdict. [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]
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]
28 Apr 2011, 4:58 pm
About the Author: Adam Savett is the Director of Securities Class Actions for Claims Compensation Bureau. [read post]
20 Nov 2008, 1:54 am
As Adam Savett points out on his Securities Litigation Watch blog (here), this procedure, pursued in parallel with a U.S. filed lawsuit, could permit claimants to use the Ontario procedure to circumvent the PSLRA’s stay of discovery. [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]
29 Dec 2009, 2:51 pm
According to data that Adam Savett of the Securities Litigation Watch has been maintaining (here) , and with the addition of the Broadcom class action settlement, the 23 options backdating related settlements total approximately $1.94 billion. [read post]
29 Jan 2010, 11:03 am
As reflected in data compiled by Adam Savett on the Securities Litigation Watch (here) since the enactment of the PSLRA in 1995, a total of nine securities class action lawsuits (counting Vivendi) have been tried to verdict. [read post]
8 Apr 2010, 6:08 am
Adam Savett, the director of securities class-action services for RiskMetrics Group, a risk-management and research firm, says plenty of unknowns remain in a lot of cases, like whether defendants who lost motions to dismiss will try to settle or take their chances at trial. [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]
8 May 2009, 8:48 am
Click here for a writeup from AmLaw’s Andrew Longstreth; here for Kevin Lacroix’s take at the D&O Diary; and here for more from Adam Savett’s Securities Litigation Watch blog; here for a story from the Chicago Trib. [read post]
5 Jan 2009, 1:00 am
Special thanks to Adam Savett of the Securities Litigation Watch blog (here) for providing a copy of the Stipulation of Settlement. [read post]
