October 24-25, 2014
BLB&G partner Mark Lebovitch participated in the ABA Business Law Section’s “Delaware Business Law Forum,” which was held at The Hotel du Pont in Wilmington, Delaware on October 24-25, 2014. Mr. Lebovitch participated in the panel entitled “A Debate: The Use and Abuse of Director Qualification and Other By-Laws." He discussed claims to board adopted by-laws pertaining to director qualifications, cost shifting and director compensation.
Mr. Lebovitch is primarily responsible for the firm's corporate governance litigation practice, focusing on derivative suits and transactional litigation. He has prosecuted numerous high-profile cases on behalf of institutional investors to preliminary injunctions and to trial, obtaining billions of dollars for investors and achieving unprecedented corporate governance improvements. Mr. Lebovitch also prosecutes securities litigations, and in that capacity was the lead litigation attorney in In re Merrill Lynch Bondholders Litigation, which settled for $150 million, and is a member of the team prosecuting In re Bank of America Securities Litigation, which has settled for $2.425 billion to shareholders. In recognition for his many achievements, Mr. Lebovitch was named one of Lawdragon’s “500 Leading Lawyers in America.”