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Pomerantz is proud to announce that Partner Emma Gilmore has been named to the National Law Journal’s 2023 list of Plaintiffs’ Attorneys Trailblazers, which honors attorneys who have had a significant impact in their practice area, serving as “agents of change.” Emma successfully took on financial behemoth Deutsche Bank AG in a securities class action alleging that the Bank habitually exempted its high-net worth clients, including former financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, as well as Russian oligarchs reportedly engaged in criminal activities, from any meaningful due diligence. For example, Deutsche Bank continued “business as usual” with Epstein even after learning that 40 underage girls had come forward…
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Pomerantz is proud to announce that Partner Emma Gilmore has been shortlisted for Benchmark Litigation’s 2023 Plaintiff Litigator of the Year award. Benchmark’s annual awards recognize and honor “the country's most distinguished litigators and their firms for their exemplary work over the last twelve months.” In September 2022, Emma scored a major victory for investors by securing a settlement to end a securities litigation against Deutsche Bank AG., The complaint alleges that Deutsche Bank represented that it had robust anti-money-laundering and Know Your Customer policies, when, in reality, it either failed to properly monitor or gave exemptions to high-risk, high-wealth customers…
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For the third year running, Pomerantz has been recognized by Benchmark Litigation as one of the top plaintiffs’ securities litigation firms in the United States. Benchmark has also honored individual Pomerantz partners as litigation stars. Following Benchmark’s “most comprehensive” review of the litigation market to date, featuring a reportedly record-breaking number of firms vying for rankings, Benchmark praised Pomerantz’s “prodigious capacity for cases and its tenacity to keep pursuing them.” Specifically, Benchmark cited the “eye-popping $3 billion settlement” with…
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Pomerantz won an important victory for investors on May 18, 2022, when Judge Jed S. Rakoff of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York denied in large part defendants’ motion to dismiss all claims for securities fraud in Karimi v. Deutsche Bank AG, a securities class action in which Pomerantz is sole Lead Counsel. The complaint alleges that from November 7, 2018 through July 6, 2020 (the “Class Period”), defendants made materially false and misleading statements about its anti-money-laundering (“AML”) deficiencies and didn’t properly monitor or gave exemptions to customers it considered high risk, such as financier and accused sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
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Pomerantz is proud to announce that Partner Emma Gilmore has been named one of the Top 250 Women in Litigation for 2021 by Benchmark Litigation. To identify the “most distinguished women in the world of litigation,” Benchmark pursued a months-long research process that involved one-on-one interviews, client feedback surveys and in-depth investigations into individual litigators’ professional activities. To earn a place among the leading female litigators in the U.S., these attorneys…
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On Monday, June 21, the United States Supreme Court, in a 6-3 decision, handed down its decision in the closely watched Goldman Sachs Group Inc. et al v. Arkansas Teachers Retirement System, et al. (No. 20-222). The Supreme Court ruling on the issue of evidence was in accord with arguments presented by Pomerantz LLP, which had submitted the sole amicus brief on the hotly contested issue: whether, in order to rebut the presumption of reliance originated by the Court in the landmark Basic v. Levinson decision…
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Pomerantz LLP is proud to announce that partner Emma Gilmore has been recognized by the National Law Journal as an Elite Woman of the Plaintiffs’ Bar in 2021 — an award given to only 11 “women lawyers who have consistently excelled in high-stakes matters on behalf of plaintiffs over the course of their careers.” Emma is one of only two women in the field of securities litigation who were so honored this year.
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Pomerantz Partner Emma Gilmore will be a featured speaker at the Practising Law Institute’s upcoming “Securities Litigation 2021: From Investigation to Trial” online program. Recognizing that the landscape of securities litigation is constantly evolving, PLI’s program will take participants through the process — “from the initial government investigation to the filing of the civil cases…
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Pomerantz LLP won a major victory for investors when the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals reversed, in part, the district court’s dismissal of a securities fraud class action against BofI Holding, Inc., now known as Axos Financial Inc., on loss causation grounds. BofI, short for Bank of Internet, operated as the holding company for BofI Federal Bank, now known as Axos Bank. Pomerantz is lead counsel in this litigation, in which it is alleged that BofI misled investors by misrepresenting and omitting material information in their public statements…
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Benchmark Litigation has recognized Pomerantz LLP as one of the top plaintiffs’ securities litigation firms in the U.S. for 2021, and honored individual Pomerantz partners as litigation stars.
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Pomerantz is proud to announce that Partners Emma Gilmore and Murielle Steven Walsh were named to the New York Law Journal’s annual list of Trailblazers for 2020. The list honors “a handful” of New York lawyers who are “truly agents of change.”
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