Mike is practice leader of the firm’s Securities and Corporate Litigation Group, focusing on the areas of complex litigation with a special emphasis in securities and healthcare.
Securities and Corporate: Represented companies, financial institutions and accounting firms in class action securities and derivative cases.
Healthcare: Represented national healthcare companies, including HCA, Inc.; IASIS Healthcare; Ardent Health Services; AmSurg Corp.; and HealthSpring, Inc.
Recent matters include:
- Lead counsel for Morgan Keegan defendants in In re Morgan Keegan Open-End Fund Litigation (United States District Court, Western District of Tennessee, CA 2:07-2784-SHM-dkv); and In re Morgan Keegan Closed-End Fund Litigation (United States District Court, Western District of Tennessee, CA 2:07-2830-SHM-dkv);
- Lead counsel for independent directors in:
- In re Merrill Lynch & Co., Inc. Research Reports Securities Litigation (U.S.D.C., Southern District of New York);
- In re Merrill Lynch & Co., Inc. Internet Strategies Fund Securities Litigation (U.S.D.C., Southern District of New York);
- In re Merrill Lynch & Co., Inc. Global Technology Fund Securities Litigation (U.S.D.C., Southern District of New York)
- In re Merrill Lynch & Co., Inc. Focus Twenty Fund Securities Litigation (U.S.D.C., Southern District of New York);
- Represented HCA, Inc. In re HCA, Inc. Shareholder Litigation (Davidson County Chancery Court, Nashville, TN) 2006;
- Represented national accounting firms in numerous securities class actions that were successfully resolved;
- Obtained arbitration award in Denver of over $10 million for shopping center developer;
- Negotiated over $15 million recovery for hospital company in dispute over failed software installations;
- Obtained arbitration award in Chicago for national financial services firm denying a $9 million fraud and breach of contract claim; prevailed on counterclaim and obtained monetary damages for breach of contract;
- Obtained arbitration awards in Knoxville and Nashville for upholding contractual provisions for major healthcare companies;
- Obtained dismissal with prejudice of national accounting firm in securities class action litigation brought in New York federal court;
- Obtained summary judgment dismissal of Merrill Lynch & Co. in securities class action litigation brought in Florida federal court by shareholders of mutual fund.
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