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jeffrey.leibell@gcginc.com
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Jeffrey N Leibell
Vice President, Class Action Services
Jeffrey Leibell joined GCG's class action division in September 2008. He spent approximately thirteen years at Bernstein Litowitz Berger & Grossmann LLP, one of the nation's leaders in representing institutional and other investors in securities fraud and derivative litigation, most recently as the partner responsible for negotiating the terms of documenting and administering that firm's class action and derivative settlements.
At Bernstein Litowitz, he was responsible for effecting and administering over $13.5 billion in class action recoveries, most notably in such high profile cases as: In re WorldCom Inc. Securities Litigation; In re Nortel Networks Corp. Securities Litigation; In re McKesson HBOC, Inc. Securities Litigation; In re HealthSouth Corp. Bondholder Litigation; Ohio Public Employees Retirement System v. Freddie Mac; In re Williams Securities Litigation; In re Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. Securities Litigation; In re El Paso Corporation Securities Litigation; and In re Refco, Inc. Securities Litigation.
Mr. Leibell has worked closely with the Securities and Exchange Commission and its Distribution Consultants in connection with numerous efforts to coordinate joint claims administration and distributions. He also has considerable experience working with damages experts to develop highly complex plans of allocation, including settlements that involved multiple securities with different federal securities claims against different settling defendants for varying claims periods.
Mr. Leibell's practice specialized in prosecuting securities class actions as well as derivative actions involving breaches of fiduciary duty and corporate governance. He has prosecuted a number of significant cases, including McCall v. Scott, the Columbia/HCA Derivative Litigation, which resulted in landmark corporate governance improvements. Prior to attending law school, Mr. Leibell spent over ten years as an auditor for Deloitte & Touche LLP, where he audited "Fortune 500" and other companies in a variety of industries.
A Certified Public Accountant, he received his B.S., cum laude, in Accounting from Brooklyn College of the City University of New York, and a J.D. from Columbia University, where he was the Senior Notes Editor of the Columbia Business Law Review and a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar. Mr. Leibell is the author of "Accountant's Liability in the Savings & Loan Crisis: An Argument in Favor of Affirmative Defenses." Mr. Leibell is a member of the New York State Bar Association and the American Bar Association. |
