Our Attorneys

fter law school, Mr. Fredericks clerked for the Hon. Robert S. Gawthrop III of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, and then spent seven years practicing securities and complex commercial litigation as an associate at Simpson Thacher & Bartlett and Willkie Farr & Gallagher before moving to the plaintiffs’ side of the bar in 1997.

Mr. Fredericks has represented investors as a lead or co-lead counsel in over two dozen securities class actions, notably In re Rite Aid Securities Litigation (E.D. Pa.) (total settlements of $323 million, including the then-second largest securities fraud settlement ever against a Big Four accounting firm); In re Sears Roebuck & Co. Securities Litigation (N.D. Ill.) ($215 million settlement announced, subject to judicial approval); and Irvine v. Imclone Systems, Inc. (S.D.N.Y.) ($75 million settlement).  Mr. Fredericks has also successfully represented several institutional clients (including Mexico’s TV Azteca and Australia’s Australis Media Group) in private commercial disputes at both the trial and appellate level.  See, e.g., National Broadcasting Co. v. Bear Stearns & Co., et al., 165 F.3d 184 (2d Cir. 1999); News Ltd. v. Australis Holdings Pty. Limited, 728 N.Y.S. 2d 667 (1st Dep’t 2001) and 742 N.Y.S. 2d 190 (1st Dep’t 2002).

Mr. Fredericks has been a panelist on a variety of litigation programs sponsored by various organizations, including the Practising Law Institute (PLI) and the American Law Institute/American Bar Association (ALI/ABA).  He is a member of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York, and a former chairman of the Association’s Committee on Military Affairs and Justice.