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Drawing upon the firm’s ‘culture of excellence and teamwork’, Morrison Foerster’s bi-coastal team provides a very unified approach to corporates and executives (bringing in complementary areas of expertise if necessary), from a range of industry sectors facing down high-stakes securities law class actions and derivative actions. The team is also highly skilled at helping clients navigate their way through government investigations/enforcement actions, where it is able to call upon the expertise of numerous former high-ranking SEC officials, including Michael Birnbaum and Haimavathi Marlier in New York. For private litigation, San Francisco-based Jordan Eth has an impressive track record defending public companies, and their officers and directors, including those within the tech and life sciences sectors. Also based out of the firm’s San Francisco headquarters, Anna Erickson White is, along with up-and-coming partner Ryan Keats, appreciated for her ability to ‘cut to the chase’ and ’deliver results’, both in a litigation setting, as well as for a risk management perspective for boards and management. Washington DC-based James Koukios co-heads the team alongside Eth and Marlier and adds credibility on matters with a white-collar component by virtue of his former high-ranking position at the DOJ.
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- 'The firm has a culture of excellence and teamwork.'
- 'They authentically care for their clients. As the seemingly never-ending legal proceedings take a life of their own, you can continue to focus on what is important to you.'
Key clients
- SoftBank Group
- Cloudera, Inc.
Work highlights
- Representing Cloudera and certain of its officers and directors in a securities class action arising out of Cloudera’s statements about its products’ cloud capabilities and its merger with its former rival, Hortonworks. The California Superior Court granted our motion for summary judgment as to all claims. The federal district court granted our motion to dismiss the second amended complaint, with prejudice. On November 19, 2024, the Ninth Circuit affirmed.
- Representing Evolv Technologies and numerous current and former officers and directors in two securities class actions, including one arising out of an accounting restatement and two derivative actions, all pending in the District of Massachusetts.