Mueller, Adrienne Ferraro

Current Employment Position(s)

Associate

Lawyer Overview

Adrienne Mueller has experience in a wide range of complex litigation, with a focus on representing companies and their officers and directors in securities, derivative, and shareholder litigation. She also has experience defending clients in litigation brought on behalf of employee benefits plans. In addition to participating in the representation of clients in contests for corporate control, Adrienne regularly advises public and private clients on a variety of matters of corporate governance. Moreover, she has extensive experience defending clients under investigation by the SEC, as well as conducting internal client investigations.

Representative clients in recent public matters include Boykin Lodging Company, Cardinal Health, Diebold, and Xcel Energy. In 2005, Adrienne gained invaluable plaintiff-side experience as part of the 10-week trial of Crowley v. Chait, No. 85-2441 (D.N.J.), which resulted in a jury verdict of $119.9 million for the Vermont Commissioner of Banking, Insurance, Securities and Health Care Administration, as the receiver of Ambassador Insurance Company. The judgment was secured against Ambassador's former president and CEO and the accounting firm of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP on the basis of allegations of corporate mismanagement and accounting malpractice and was recently affirmed by the Third Circuit Court of Appeals.

Licensed to practice before the Ohio Supreme Court, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Ohio, and the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals, Adrienne also has represented clients in a number of other federal jurisdictions. She is a member of the Ohio State and Cleveland Metropolitan Bar Associations.

Areas of Practice

• Securities Litigation & SEC Enforcement
• Trial Practice
• Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation
• Securities Fraud Class Actions
• Shareholder Derivative Actions
• Accounting & GAAP Issues
• Class Action Litigation

Representative Cases

• Boykin Lodging resolves shareholder action
• Cyro-Cell's board of directors successful in defense of dissident shareholders attempt to remove incumbent directors , (2009)
• Diebold resolves ERISA stock drop action
• Diebold securities litigation dismissal upheld by Sixth Circuit , (2009)
• Federated Department Stores obtains dismissal of securities litigation
• Medhost defends corporate governance action filed by stockholder
• MTC Technologies defends fiduciary duty claims arising from merger with BAE Systems , (2009)
• National City Bank defends against class action relating to recording of mortgage releases
• National City Bank defends securities, derivative and ERISA litigation arising from dislocations in the credit and real-estate markets
• Vermont Insurance Commissioner as receiver of Ambassador Insurance wins U.S. Court of Appeals affirmance of $119.9 million jury verdict and $182.9 million judgment for auditing malpractice against PricewaterhouseCoopers
• Xcel Energy obtains dismissal of securities fraud, derivative and ERISA actions

West Practice Categories

Administrative Law, Affirmative Action -- Employee, Americans with Disabilities Act -- Employee, Bankruptcy Litigation, Business & Commercial Law, Capital Markets, Class Actions, Commodities, Complex Litigation, Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) -- Employee, Employee Rights -- Employee, Employment Contracts -- Employee, Employment Discrimination -- Employee, Employment Law -- Employee, Family Medical Leave Act (FMLA) -- Employee, Federal Appellate Practice, Federal Claims Court, Federal Employer,'s Liability Act (FELA) -- Employee, Federal Trial Practice, Foreign Investment, International Trade Litigation, Litigation & Appeals, Military & Veterans Appeals, Multidistrict Litigation, Municipal Employment -- Employee, Occupational Safety & Health Act (OSHA) -- Employee, Patent Litigation, Pensions, Benefits & Compensations -- Employee, Private Placements, Public Offerings, Securities Fraud & Insider Trading, Securities Law, Securities Regulation, Sexual Harassment -- Employee, State Appellate Practice, State Trial Practice, Tax Litigation, Taxation Law, US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, US Supreme Court, Wage & Hour Laws -- Employee, Whistleblower -- Employee, Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (WARN) Act -- Employee, Wrongful Termination -- Employee

Bar Admissions

• Ohio

Education

• Ohio State University
• Wooster (The College of)

Address

North Point
901 Lakeside Avenue
Cleveland, OH 44114-1190

Phones

1.216.586.7370 (Business Phone)

Faxes

1.216.579.0212 (Business Fax)

Emails

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Websites

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