Representing investors in class actions and individual actions, the securities team at Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, LLP handles a wide range of securities claims including federal securities, breach of fiduciary duty, and market manipulation claims. The practice group is well experienced in representing various clients including insurance companies, pension funds, investment managers, and sovereign wealth funds. The team is led by Los Angeles-based Jeremy Andersen, and New York-based Daniel Brockett, Avi Perry, and Jesse Bernstein. Andersen handles major antitrust and commodity exchange act cases. Brockett has experience representing institutional clients in cases against Wall Street banks, Perry focuses on defending companies and individuals under investigation by federal and state law enforcement authorities, and Bernstein is capable of handling opt-out actions.
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Key clients
- Desktop Metal
- Stock Lending Class Action
- VRDO Class Action
- Currenex Class Action
- Hound Partners Offshore Fund, LP, Hound Partners Long Master, LP, and Hound Partners Concentrated Master, LP
- Various RMBS Matters
- TradeInvest Asset Management Co. (BVI) Ltd., First Ocean Enterprises SA and Techview Investments Ltd.
- CWCapital Cobalt Vr Ltd.
- American General Life Insurance Company and The Variable Annuity Life Insurance Company
- Highfields Capital
Work highlights
Representing funds affiliated with Hound Partners in opt-out securities fraud action against Valeant Pharmaceuticals and PwC, alleging failure to disclose price gouging and controlled pharmacy network; obtained confidential settlement with PwC and favorable summary judgment ruling paving way for 2026 trial.
Filed large-scale antitrust class action in SDNY on behalf of XTX Markets and class members against Currenex, State Street, Goldman Sachs, and others, alleging anticompetitive conspiracy involving superpriority trading privileges on FX platform; survived motion to dismiss on fraud, antitrust, and RICO claims.
Secured trial victory and specific performance order requiring Nano Dimension to complete $300m acquisition of Desktop Metal, defeating activist investor's attempt to terminate deal based on national security agreement; established favorable precedent for deal certainty and specific performance remedies.
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Dan Brockett; Jeremy D. Andersen; Avi Perry; Jesse Bernstein