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Rebecca M. Katz
Rebecca M. Katz is recognized as a leading lawyer in Securities Litigation in the 2008 and 2009 editions of New York Super Lawyers and has lectured on issues involving securities and class action litigation. She recently was a faculty member at Practicing Law Institute’s Securities Litigation & Enforcement Institute 2009, held in New York City on September 29, 2009. She is a former Senior Counsel in the Enforcement Division of the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”), where she served for nearly a decade. At the SEC, she prosecuted major securities cases involving insider trading, market manipulation, and accounting fraud.
Ms. Katz joined Bernstein Liebhard LLP in 2001, and serves on the Plaintiffs’ Executive Committee in In re Initial Public Offering Securities Litigation (which recently settled for $586 million and is subject to court approval). In that capacity, she has supervised attorneys and legal professionals from more than twenty law firms in the discovery process and the day-to-day management of the litigation. Ms. Katz is also the partner responsible for the day-to-day supervision of In re Fannie Mae Securities Litigation and Republic of Iraq v. ABB Ltd., et al., a suit brought on behalf of the Republic of Iraq and the Iraqi people over the corruption of the United Nations Oil for Food Programme, which allowed the Hussein Regime to sell Iraqi oil to buy food, medicine and other humanitarian aid for the Iraqi people, described by a number of important commentators as the largest financial and political fraud in history.
Before joining the Firm, she was associated with Lieff, Cabraser, Heimann & Bernstein, LLP in their New York office, where she served as counsel for plaintiff classes in several securities cases, including Dietrich v. Bauer, a securities class action involving trading in the securities of Scorpion Technologies Inc.
Ms. Katz received her law degree from Hofstra University School of Law, where she was a member of the Hofstra Law Review. She is admitted to the New York State Bar and to the bars of the United States District Courts for the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York, and is a member of the Securities Litigation Committee of the New York City Bar Association.
| Phone: | 212-779-1414 |
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| Fax: | 212-779-3218 |
| Email: | katz@bernlieb.com |
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