Mr Geoffrey Jarvis > Kessler Topaz Meltzer & Check, LLP > Radnor, United States > Lawyer Profile

Mr Geoffrey Jarvis

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Work Department

Securities Fraud Litigation; Global Securities Litigation; Fiduciary Litigation; Antitrust and Unfair Business Practices; Shareholder Derivative Actions; Mergers and Acquisitions Litigation; Whistleblower Representation; Corporate Governance; Portfolio Monitoring and Claims Filing (SecuritiesTracker™);

Position

Partner

Career

Mr. Jarvis focuses on securities litigation for institutional investors. Mr. Jarvis had a major role in Oxford Health Plans Securities Litigation, DaimlerChrysler Securities Litigation, and Tyco Securities Litigation all of which were among the top ten securities settlements in U.S. history at the time they were resolved, as well as a large number of other securities cases over the past 16 years. Mr. Jarvis has also been involved in a number of actions before the Delaware Chancery Court, including a Delaware appraisal case that resulted in a favorable decision for the firm’s client after trial, and a Delaware appraisal case that was tried in October, argued in 2016, which is still awaiting a final decision.

Mr. Jarvis graduated from Harvard Law School in 1984, and until 1986, Mr. Jarvis served as a staff attorney with the Federal Communications Commission, participating in the development of new regulatory policies for the telecommunications industry. Mr. Jarvis then became an associate in the Washington office of Rogers & Wells (subsequently merged into Clifford Chance), principally devoted to complex commercial litigation in the fields of antitrust and trade regulations, insurance, intellectual property, contracts and defamation issues, as well as counseling corporate clients in diverse industries on general legal and regulatory compliance matters. Mr. Jarvis was previously associated with a prominent Philadelphia litigation boutique and had first-chair assignments in cases commenced under the Pennsylvania Whistleblower Act and in major antitrust, First Amendment, civil rights, and complex commercial litigation, including several successful arguments before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit.  From 2000 until early 2016, Mr. Jarvis was a Director (Senior Counsel through 2001) at Grant & Eisenhofer, P.A., where he engaged in a number of federal securities, and state fiduciary cases (primarily in Delaware), including several of the largest settlements of the past 15 years.  He also was lead trial counsel and/or associate counsel in a number of cases that were tried to a verdict (or are pending final decision).

Memberships

Mr. Jarvis is licensed to practice in Pennsylvania, Delaware, New York and District of Columbia; United States Supreme Court; USCA, First Circuit; USCA, Second Circuit; USCA, Third Circuit; USCA, Fifth Circuit, USDC, District of Delaware, USDC, District of Columbia; USDC, Eastern District of Pennsylvania; USDC, Middle District of Pennsylvania; USDC, Eastern District of New York; USDC, Southern District of New York.

Education

Cornell University, B.A. 1980 – Phi Beta Kappa; Harvard Law School, J.D. 1984, cum laude