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The Rise and (Coming) Fall of "F-Cubed" Securities Litigation |
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With increasing frequency, the plaintiffs’ bar has been filing what are being called “f-cubed” securities fraud cases in U.S. courts: cases on behalf of foreign plaintiffs against foreign companies for trading on foreign exchanges. Dozens of such cases have been filed in the past few years, and they have met with some success. Two of the biggest securities class-action settlements in recent years, in fact, have involved foreign companies and classes that included foreign investors in those companies: Nortel Networks, which paid some $2.2 billion, and Royal Ahold, which settled for $1.1 billion. To be sure, many of the recent f-cubed cases have been dismissed. But enough have survived to make plaintiffs’ lawyers’ efforts to recruit foreign clients worthwhile.... |
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Engage Volume 9, Issue 1, February 2008 |
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Is the U.S. Legal Regime Undermining American Competitiveness? - Event Audio/Video |
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The Federalist Society's Corporations Practice Group presented this panel discussion at the 2007 Annual National Lawyers Convention on November 15, 2007. The panelists included Hon. David D. Aufhauser of UBS Global, Prof. Richard A. Epstein of the University of Chicago Law School, Prof. Douglas W. Kmiec of Pepperdine University School of Law, Hon. George J. Terwilliger III of White & Case LLP, and former Deputy U.S. Attorney General, and Mr. François-Henri Briard of Delaporte, Briard & Trichet and President of the the Federalist Society's Paris Chapter as the moderator. |
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The Independence of Federal Prosecutors - Event Audio/Video |
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The Federalist Society's Criminal Law Practice Group presented this panel discussion at the 2007 Annual National Lawyers Convention on November 15, 2006. The panelists included Hon. Bob Barr of Liberty Stategies LLC, Hon. Jamie Gorelick of Wilmer Hale, Mr. Andrew C. McCarthy of the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies, Prof. John C. Yoo of UC Berkeley, Boalt Hall School of Law, and Hon. Merrick B. Garland of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit as the moderator. |
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