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 Manhattan on September 29, 2009.  She is a former senior counsel in the Enforcement Division of the 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 the Firm in 2001, and serves on the Plaintiffs’ Executive Committee in In re Initial Public Offering Securities Litigation, No. 21 MC 92 (S.D.N.Y.), which recently settled for $586 million.  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, No. 04-CV-1639 (D.D.C.), and Republic of Iraq v. ABB Ltd., No. 08 CV 5951 (S.D.N.Y.).

Before joining the Firm, Ms. Katz was associated with Lieff, Cabraser, Heimann & Bernstein, LLP in its New York office, where she served as counsel for plaintiff classes in several securities cases, including Dietrich v. Bauer, No. 95 Civ. 7051 (S.D.N.Y.), 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 practice before 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.

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