Sandy A. Liebhard
Sandy A. Liebhard is a 1988 graduate of Brooklyn Law School and since that time has practiced all aspects of securities law. Mr. Liebhard was recognized as a “local litigation star” for his securities work in Benchmark Plaintiff 2012: The Definitive Guide to America’s Leading Plaintiff Firms & Attorneys.
For more than twenty years, Mr. Liebhard has been successfully representing plaintiffs in complex litigations. For example, he recently served on the Plaintiffs’ Executive Committee in In re Initial Public Offering Securities Litigation, No. 21 MC 92 (S.D.N.Y.) ($586 million recovery). He has been lead or co-lead counsel in such major securities cases as: In re AXA Financial Shareholders Litigation, No. 18268 (Del. Ch.) ($500 million in increased merger consideration); In re Lin Broadcasting Corp. Shareholders Litigation, No. 90-CV-7787 (S.D.N.Y.) (recovering $64 million in increased merger consideration); In re Tenneco Securities Litigation, No. 91-CV-2010 (S.D. Tex.) ($50 million recovery); In re Bausch & Lomb, Inc. Securities Litigation, No. 92-CV-6270 (W.D.N.Y.) (achieving a $42 million recovery for defrauded shareholders); and In re BellSouth Corp. Securities Litigation, No. 02-CV-2142-WSD (N.D. Ga.) ($35 million recovery).
Mr. Liebhard is currently working on several securities fraud class actions against numerous issuers of securities for allegedly misleading investors, including In re Proshares Trust Securities Litigation, No. 09-CV-7505 (S.D.N.Y.) and In re Fannie Mae Securities Litigation, No. 07-CV-1639 (D.D.C.).
Mr. Liebhard is also active in the Firm’s consumer practice, and is serving as interim co-lead counsel in Roberts v. Tishman Speyer, L.P., No. 100956/07 (N.Y. Sup. Ct.), a class action brought on behalf of thousands of tenants who were illegally charged market-rate rents for apartments that should have been rent stabilized under New York City’s Rent Stabilization Law.
Mr. Liebhard devotes a substantial portion of his practice to advising the Firm’s institutional clients as to the most effective strategies for recovering losses or maximizing shareholder value. He supervises a team that monitors and analyzes the investment portfolios of the Firm’s institutional clients and objectively advises whether litigation on an individual or class-wide basis is in the clients’ best interests.
Mr. Liebhard 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.
