Landau, Eric

Current Employment Position(s)

Partner

Lawyer Overview

Eric Landau's practice focuses on securities litigation and corporate governance. As a trial attorney, Eric represents public and private companies, as well as their directors and officers, against shareholder class and derivative actions before federal and state courts throughout the U.S. As a corporate counselor, he handles issues related to hostile and friendly acquisitions, proxy fights, financial accounting, public offerings, and executive compensation. He regularly serves as legal advisor in conjunction with mergers and acquisitions and as independent counsel for special committees, audit committees, and other subcommittees of boards of directors charged with corporate oversight responsibility.

Recently, in a shareholder class action for breach of fiduciary duty following the announcement of a public merger, Eric and his team defeated class certification, which resulted in a voluntary dismissal of the entire case following the shareholder's unsuccessful appeal. Also recently, Eric and a team of seasoned securities litigators and deal lawyers handled all aspects of a complex international transaction for a prominent spirits company, which involved a stock repurchase and sale, a corporate redomiciliation from the British West Indies to Switzerland, the establishment of a new form of governance structure, and the settlement of three different lawsuits pending in three different countries.

Eric has served as a member of the board of advisors of RAND Corporation's Center for Corporate Ethics & Governance, a Fellow of the Litigation Counsel of America, a delegate to the Ninth Circuit Judicial Conference, and a director of the Orange County Chapter of the Federal Bar Association.

Areas of Practice

• Securities Litigation & SEC Enforcement

Representative Cases

• Alacer Corporation defends derivative claims of self-dealing and corporate waste
• Monterey Gourmet Foods and its Board of Directors defend shareholder class actions involving acquisition by Pulmuone , (2010)
• Novatel Wireless defends shareholder class action and shareholder derivative actions regarding misrepresentations concerning their financial results , (2010)
• Park-Olson Lumber successfully defends against alleged fraudulent investment scheme
• Tracinda Corporation defends shareholder class action

West Practice Categories

Capital Markets, Commodities, Foreign Investment, Private Placements, Public Offerings, Securities Fraud & Insider Trading, Securities Law, Securities Regulation

Bar Admissions

• California
• District of Columbia
• Illinois
• New York

Education

• Washington University-St Louis

Published Works

• Supreme Court Clarifies What It Means To "Make" a Statement for Rule 10b-5 Liability, 2011
• Employee Contact With Opposing Counsel, 2011
• Supreme Court Resolves Circuit Split on Proof of Loss Causation at the Class Certification Stage, 2011
• Supreme Court to Consider Circuit Split on Proof of Loss Causation at the Class Certification Stage, 2011
• U.S. Supreme Court Rules That a Drug’s Adverse Event Reports May be Material to Investors Even Though not "Statistically Significant", 2011
• SEC Proposes Rules for New Whistleblower Program, 2010
• Employee Contact With Opposing Counsel, California Bar Journal, 2010
• Special Committees for Tough Economic Times and Beyond, Vol. 24, No. 3, 2009

Address

3161 Michelson Drive, Suite 800
Irvine, CA 92612-4408

Phones

1.949.553.7517 (Business Phone)

Faxes

1.949.553.7539 (Business Fax)

Emails

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Websites

http://www.jonesday.com