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Jeffrey P. Campisi is involved in representing the firm’s institutional and individual clients in securities and shareholder actions.
Mr. Campisi is currently representing individual or institutional clients in several securities class actions, including the Arkansas Teacher Retirement System in the securities class action pending in Federal Court in Saint Louis, Missouri, relating to Monsanto Company’s allegedly false representations about its Roundup and glyphosate-based herbicide business, and Monsanto’s seeds and traits business (Rochester Laborers Pension Fund v. Monsanto Company, et al.) (10cv1380) (Eastern District of Missouri); the Tennessee Consolidated Retirement System in the In re 2008 Fannie Mae Securities Litigation concerning Fannie’s alleged failure to manage and understand risk, leading to the Company’s massive losses and take-over (conservatorship) by the U.S. government in September 2008 (08cv7831) (Southern District of New York); and an individual investor in a securities class action against Arena Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a San Diego, California-based biotechnology company, relating to Arena’s allegedly false and misleading representations about the Company’s experimental new drug for weight loss and weight maintenance, lorcaserin (Schueneman v. Arena Pharms., et al., (10cv1959) (Southern District of California).
Mr. Campisi has represented the State Teachers’ Retirement System of Ohio in In re Merrill Lynch & Co., Inc. Securities, Derivative and ERISA Litigation (S.D.N.Y.) (07CV9633) ($475 million recovered); the Virginia Retirement System in In re Escala Group, Inc. Securities Litigation (S.D.N.Y) (06CV3518) ($18 million in cash and stock recovered); and the Los Angeles City Employees’ Retirement System in In re Sequenom, Inc. Securities Litigation (S.D. Cal.) (09cv921) ($43 million in cash and stock recovered, as of February 4, 2010). Mr. Campisi has recently represented investors in shareholder actions involving allegations of breach of fiduciary duties in connection with corporate transactions In re Progress Energy (N.C. State Court) (challenging merger between Progress and Duke Energy) and Cardiac Science Corporation (Delaware Chancery Court and Washington State Court) (challenging tender offer for all Cardiac Science shares and merger with foreign company).
Mr. Campisi is a graduate of Villanova University School of Law (summa cum laude), where he was a member of the Villanova Law Review and the Order of the Coif. Mr. Campisi earned a B.A. from Georgetown University (cum laude). Mr. Campisi served as a law clerk to the Honorable Herbert J. Hutton, United States District Judge for the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.
Mr. Campisi is admitted to the Bar of the State of New York and the United States District Courts for the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York and is a member of the American Bar Association, the New York State Bar Association, the American Association for Justice and the Nassau County Bar Association.
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