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 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 BellSouth Corp. Securities Litigation, No. 02-cv-2142-wsd (N.D. Ga.) ($35 million recovery); 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); and In re Bausch & Lomb, Inc. Securities Litigation, No. 92-cv-6270 (W.D.N.Y.) (achieving a $42 million recovery for defrauded shareholders).

 Mr. Liebhard presently serves as lead counsel in In re Fannie Mae Securities Litigation, No. 07-CV-1639 (D.D.C.), and is currently working on several securities fraud class actions against numerous issuers of securities for allegedly misleading investors, including Hirth v. Proshares Trust, No. 09-cv-7505 (S.D.N.Y.).

Mr. Liebhard is also active in the Firm’s consumer practice, and is serving as interim co-lead counsel in a class action brought on behalf of thousands of tenants 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.