Based out of its Chicago office, the team at Vedder is adept at defending publicly traded companies and their directors and offices across a plethora of private securities class action litigation, including shareholder derivative suits and self-regulatory industry proceedings. Thomas Cimino co-heads the team beside Anthony Ashley; Cimino Jr. often engages in proceedings before the US securities and Exchange Commission and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission. Other key team members of the team include Brooke Conner, who is well-placed to defend suits alleging fraud or breaches of fiduciary duty.
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Testimonials
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- ‘The Team at Vedder Price knows how to win at trial. They understand the law, they understand the government's strategy, and they understand how a jury thinks. They are able to simplify complex issues and communicate them in an easy-to-understand way so as to show very clearly why the government's theories are wrong.’
- ‘They work hard, and they care about justice. They want to fight and not just negotiate deals.’
Key clients
- U.S. Bancorp Fund Services, LLC
- Vikram Luthar
- James Whitcomb
- Frost and Miller
- Caedrynn Conner
- Jed Wood
- Gregoire Tournant
- Stephen Buyer
Work highlights
Representing U.S. Bancorp Fund Services in investor litigation stemming from the $1 billion Infinity Q fund mismarking scheme, where we successfully obtained dismissal of key Securities Act claims in a high-profile case raising novel questions about fund administrator liability.
Representing former Archer Daniels Midland CFO Vikram Luthar in federal and state securities and derivative actions alleging accounting fraud and misstatements about a business segment’s profitability that plaintiffs claim led to a 25% stock drop and over $8 billion in lost market value.
Representing former SH Parent, Inc. (Parallel) CFO James Whitcomb in a derivative lawsuit alleging that he and others conspired with William “Beau” Wrigley, Jr. in a self-dealing scheme that depleted company assets and led to its bankruptcy following a failed SPAC transaction.
Practice head
Thomas Cimino; Anthony Ashley
Other key lawyers
Nusra Ismail; Adam Schwartz; Junaid Zubairi; Jeffrey Ansley; Rachel Copenhaver; Joshua Dunn; Brooke Conner