Securities & Shareholder Litigation
Rhoads & Sinon represents corporations, as well as individual officers and directors, in actions for fraud and misrepresentation brought by shareholders. Our securities litigators monitor the rapid changes in regulatory, legislative, and judicial environments as they relate to potential civil and criminal exposure.
We represent corporate and individual clients in arbitrations, civil litigations, and investigatory and disciplinary proceedings before state and federal regulators, involving, among other things, claims for suitability, fraud, and churning, arising under the Securities Act of 1933, Securities Exchange Act of 1934, and corresponding state laws, as well as other federal and state laws covering such conduct. We have substantial experience before both the SEC and the NASD, as well as in arbitration proceedings under the rules of the American Arbitration Association. We have been involved in numerous class action securities lawsuits, many times achieving complete vindication of our clients and in other circumstances creating groundbreaking settlement vehicles.
We also regularly advise corporate clients, directors and individual shareholders in litigation arising from disputes about the management, sale or dissolution of a business. We represent both public and private companies throughout Pennsylvania and the United States. We have been involved in both pursing and defending claims arising from bank and corporate mergers and acquisitions, going private transactions, breach of fiduciary duty litigation, forced buy-outs of minority shareholders, freeze out transactions, shareholder derivative litigation and fraud and corporate mismanagement claims.