Marc I. Gross

Marc I. Gross is Senior Counsel at Pomerantz LLP, where he has litigated securities fraud class actions for over four decades. He served as the Firm’s Managing Partner from 2009 to 2016. Mr. Gross’s major lawsuits include SAC Capital (Steven Cohen—insider trading); Chesapeake Energy (Aubrey McClendon—insider bailout); Citibank (analyst Jack Grubman—false AT&T stock recommendation); and Charter Communications (Paul Allen—accounting fraud). He also litigated market efficiency issues in the firm’s landmark $3 billion recovery in Petrobras.

Mr. Gross also served as President of the Institute of Law and Economic Policy, which has organized symposiums each year where leading academics have presented papers on securities law and consumer protection issues. These papers have been cited in over 200 cases, including several in the United States Supreme Court.

Mr. Gross has addressed numerous forums in the United States on shareholder-related issues, including:

• The Institute for Law and Economic Policy
• Loyola-Chicago School of Law’s Institute for Investor Protection Conference
• National Conference on Public Employee Retirement Systems’ Legislative Conferences
• PLI conferences on Current Trends in Securities Law
• A panel entitled Enhancing Consistency and Predictability in Applying Fraud-on-the-Market Theory, sponsored by the Duke Law School Center for Judicial Studies
• Securities law students at NYU and Georgetown Law schools

Among other articles, Mr. Gross authored Cooking Books? The Valuation Treadmill, 50 Sec. Reg. L. Jrl. 363 (2022); Reputation and Securities Litigation, 47 Sec. Reg. l Jrl. 99 (2019) Back to Basic(s): Common Sense Trumps Econometrics, N.Y.L.J. (Jan. 8, 2018) (with Jeremy Lieberman); and Class Certification in a Post-Halliburton II World, 46 Loyola-Chicago L.J. 485 (2015).

Mr. Gross was honored in 2022 by T’ruah, the Rabbinic Call to Human Rights, for his pro bono work in support of the Coalition of Immokalee Workers in Florida in their battle for recognition by Wendy’s Restaurants, and recently joined the Board of Mainchance, a homeless drop-in shelter operating in Manhattan.

Mr. Gross is a graduate of NYU Law ’76 and Columbia College ’73.

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