Securities Litigation
NERA economists provide answers to difficult questions arising in:
- Class actions and opt-out suits involving individual securities and funds
- Broker/customer disputes alleging unsuitability and churning
- Valuations of fixed income and derivative products
- Mutual fund and 1940 Investment Act litigation
- Measuring costs of illiquidity
- Bankruptcy and fraudulent conveyance actions
- Derivative suits
- Insider trading and manipulation cases
- Supervisory goodwill litigation
- Practices such as IPO allocations and markup policies
- ERISA actions
- Lost profit allegations
- Development of new financial products
- Strategic consulting for exchanges and securities firms; and
- Impact assessment of proposed regulatory changes.
Our experts have knowledge spanning equity and commodity markets; U.S. government, corporate, municipal and mortgage securities; bonds and currencies of global and emerging markets; and warrants, futures, forwards, swaps, options and other derivatives. We have been retained to assist in liability issues as well as to compute damages, and we participate in arbitration proceedings and alternative dispute resolution as well as traditional litigation.
