BLB&G Partner Sean Coffey participated in a panel on securities litigation
at the 2008 PLUS D&O Symposium, an event to be held at the Marriott Marquis Hotel in New York,
NY on February 6th & 7th, 2008.
As a speaker on the panel entitled, “Securities Litigation: Class Actions,
Derivative Suits and Enforcement Proceedings in 2007,” Mr. Coffey drew from
his vast experience in successfully prosecuting many of the most high profile
commercial litigations in recent history to shed light on new developments in this field
and how they relate to D&O liability.
Mr. Coffey is responsible for spearheading some of the most notable fraud cases to ever go to
trial, including In re WorldCom, Inc. Securities Litigation
and BFA Liquidation Trust v. Arthur Andersen, LLP,
achieving billions of dollars in record-breaking recoveries for defrauded
investors. In both of these cases, Mr. Coffey took the same defendant--
former Big Four accounting firm Arthur Andersen LLP-- to trial, obtaining a
$65 million recovery from Andersen for its role as Worldcom's former auditor; and a $217 million settlement
in the BFA Liquidation Trust case. Mr. Coffey currently serves as court-appointed Lead
Counsel representing investors in the Omnicom,
HealthSouth,
Merck,
Refco,
Delphi, and
Converium litigations, and
copyright holders in the Premier League v. YouTube class action.
For more information about this event, please visit the Professional Liability Underwriting Society’s website at
www.plusweb.org.
For more information about Mr. Coffey or the firm, please contact us at blbg@blbglaw.com.
