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Reputation Matters. We’ve Built Ours by Leading the Charge and Delivering Results.

From successfully representing investors in headline securities class actions to obtaining record recoveries in major antitrust cases, our work at Labaton Sucharow LLP has one important unifying theme—clients engage us because of our international reputation for achieving great results with integrity. We’ve earned that reputation through innovative lawyering and a steadfast commitment to professionalism.

For more than four decades, Labaton Sucharow has been breaking legal ground. On behalf of leading institutional investors, we’ve secured record recoveries against corporate offenders in high profile, high stakes securities class actions. To better align our clients’ interests with their continued equity positions in defendant companies, our settlement proposals also typically seek to require defendant corporations to adopt progressive corporate governance reforms to prevent further occurrences of wrongdoing—a new paradigm for settlements.

With more than 60 attorneys, as well as a team of investigators, forensic accountants, securities analysts, and other professionals, our Firm has a track record of excellence -- and an established reputation for integrity.

The firm offers such services as:

Securities Litigation

  • Investing in global securities markets takes trust—trust that corporate officers and managers will grow their companies wisely, and trust that fiduciaries will invest their funds responsibly. When corporate fraud and wrongdoing break that chain of trust, leading institutional investors turn to Labaton Sucharow to obtain recovery on their behalf.
  • Labaton Sucharow has represented public pension funds, hedge funds, U.S. and European financial institutions, and other institutional investors in ground-breaking securities class actions that level the playing field for harmed investors.
  • Since the passage of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 (PSLRA), Labaton Sucharow has placed special emphasis on the representation of public and private institutional investors as lead plaintiffs. As a result, we have been retained by numerous institutional investors and appointed as lead counsel in many high profile cases brought after the enactment of the PSLRA, including In re Bristol-Myers-Squibb Securities Litigation; In re American International Group Inc. Securities Litigation; In re HealthSouth Securities Litigation; and In re St. Paul Travelers Securities Litigation.

Compelling Reform from Corporate Defendants

  • For many of our clients, improving flawed corporate governance structures is as important as securing monetary recoveries for past harms. To that end, when our team considers bringing a case involving allegations of corporate wrongdoing, we do more than weigh the economic harm committed—we also focus on those areas in which we can have the greatest impact on changing the corporate behavior that resulted in shareholder harm.
  • On behalf of the Connecticut Retirement Plans and Trust Funds, we obtained innovative corporate governance improvements in the settlement of the In re Waste Management, Inc. Securities Litigation case, which included measures to strengthen the role and independence of the audit committee, improve accountability through a change in the board structure, and protect whistleblowers.
  • We also obtained key corporate governance concessions in a major securities litigation against Bristol-Myers Squibb Co., including the mandate that the company disclose crucial information regarding the results of clinical studies on all of its drugs marketed in any country throughout the world.
  • Our corporate governance experience encompasses matters involving compensation, director independence, disclosure, and voting of shares. With each case, we consider the concerns of shareholders, and try to compel the adoption of the recommendations of corporate governance experts.