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24 July 2017
Svetlana Starykh, et al.
In a guest post published on the Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance and Financial Regulation blog, NERA Senior Consultants Stefan Boettrich and Svetlana Starykh review their 2016-year end findings and provide a mid-2017 update on trends in securities class actions. In the 2016-year end report, Recent Trends in Securities Class Action Litigation: 2016 Full-Year Review, the authors noted that the “pace of securities class action filings was the highest since the aftermath of the 2000 dot-com crash” and that the growth “in filings was dominated by federal merger objections.” A review of the 2017 data shows that the surge in securities class-action filings has continued in the first half of 2017.
Mid-2017 Highlights include: