JEFFREY M. HABER

Jeffrey M. Haber received his B.S. from the State University of New York at Buffalo in 1985, graduating magna cum laude, with departmental honors, and as a Phi Beta Kappa.  He received his J.D. in 1988 from Hofstra University School of Law, where he was a notes and comments editor for the International Property Law Journal.  Mr. Haber is recognized as a leading lawyer in securities litigation by Super Lawyers magazine in the Fall 2008, 2009 and 2010 editions of New York Super Lawyers, and in the 2011 Super Lawyers Business Edition in the litigation practice area for his work in securities litigation.  In addition, Mr. Haber was recommended in The Legal 500 in 2010.

Upon graduation from law school, Mr. Haber was associated with a Manhattan law firm where he represented plaintiffs and defendants in a variety of complex securities, commodities, and shareholder litigations in state and federal courts across the country.  In 1991, Mr. Haber became associated with, and later a member of, a New York plaintiffs’ firm, Harwood Feffer LLP, where he represented plaintiffs in complex securities and consumer fraud class actions, antitrust class actions, and shareholders’ rights litigation.  In April 2000, Mr. Haber joined the Firm as a partner, concentrating his practice in complex class action litigation involving securities fraud and shareholders’ rights.  In his career, Mr. Haber has been a member of multiple trial teams in civil cases, and has conducted numerous securities arbitrations before the NASD and NYSE.

Mr. Haber concentrates on securities class action litigation, securities arbitration, and is one of the Firm’s partners leading the Firm’s qui tam/whistleblower litigation practice.  Mr. Haber is currently lead counsel in In re Tremont Securities Law, State Law and Insurance Litigation, No. 08-CV-11117 (S.D.N.Y.) (settlement in excess of $100 million), in which the Firm represents investors who lost millions of dollars in hedge funds that invested with Bernard L. Madoff, as well as Kinnett v. Strayer Education, Inc., No. 10-CV-2317-T-23MAP (M.D. Fla.) which alleges that the defendant, a for-profit school, made false statements and material omissions concerning student enrollment growth and student recruiting.  In addition, Mr. Haber is currently representing the Trustee of the Actrade Liquidation Trust in two lawsuits; the first, Meer v. Aharoni, No. 5141-CC (Del. Ch.), is an action against Actrade’s former chairman for misappropriation of funds and fraud resulting in the ultimate collapse of Actrade; the second, Meer v. Deloitte & Touche, LLP, No. 11-CV-06994 (HB) (S.D.N.Y.), is a malpractice action against Actrade’s accountant for failing to conduct proper audits.  He was also the partner responsible for the day-to-day supervision of In re Royal Dutch/Shell Transport Securities Litigation, No. 04-374 (JAP) (D.N.J.).

Mr. Haber has been lead counsel, co-lead counsel, or a member of an executive committee in a number of notable and successful class actions, which collectively resulted in millions of dollars in settlements to the respective classes, including:  In re Marsh & McLennan Cos., Inc. Securities Litigation, No. 04-CV-8144 (CM) (S.D.N.Y.) ($400 million recovery); In re Royal Dutch/Shell Transport Securities Litigation, No. 04-374 (JAP) (D.N.J.) (minimum value to the class of U.S. shareholders of $138.3 million with a potential value of more than $180 million, in addition to a $350 million European settlement for which the court recognized the Firm as a “substantial factor” in bringing about); In re Taxable Municipal Bonds Litigation, No. 90 MD 0863 (E.D. La.) ($110 million); In re Banc One Securities Litigation, No. 00-CV-0019 (N.D. Ill.) ($45 million); In re Beazer Homes U.S.A., Inc. Securities Litigation, No. 07-CV-725-CC (N.D. Ga.) ($30.5 million); In re Lumenis Securities Litigation, No. 02-CV-1989 (S.D.N.Y.) ($20.1 million); In re Gilat Satellite Networks, Ltd. Securities Litigation, No. 02-CV-1510 (E.D.N.Y.) ($20 million); In re JDN Realty Corp. Securities Litigation, No. 00-CV-10192 (N.D. Ga.) ($16.8 million); In re Terayon Communication Systems, Inc. Securities Litigation, No. C-00-1967 (N.D. Cal.) ($15 million); In re Willbros Group. Inc. Securities Litigation, No. 06-CV-1778 (S.D. Tex.) ($10.5 million); and Cheney v. Cyberguard Corp., No. 98-CIV-6879 (S.D. Fla.) ($10 million).

Mr. Haber also has been lead counsel, co-lead counsel, or a member of an executive committee in a number of successful shareholders’ rights litigations, including:  In re The Times Mirror Co. Shareholders Litigation, No. 94-CV-4632 (C.D. Cal.) (settlement benefit in excess of $20 million); In re Home Shopping Network Inc. Derivative Litigation, No. 87-248-CIV-T-13A (M.D. Fla.) (settlement benefit in excess of $20 million); Edge Partners L.P. v. Dockser, No. 95-CV-1818 (D. Md.) (settlement benefit in excess of $11 million); and In re Archer Daniels Midlands Corp. Derivative Litigation, No. 14403 (Del. Ch.) (corporate governance reforms and monetary benefit in excess of $8 million).  Mr. Haber further served as lead counsel in a precedent-setting decision under the Investment Company Act of 1940 regarding the independence of directors serving on multiple boards of mutual funds operated by the same investment company.

Recently, Mr. Haber authored “Does the PSLRA’s Notice Requirement Apply Solely to PSLRA Claims?  Poptech v. Stewardship Investment Advisors – A Case of First Impression in the Second Circuit,” Securities Litigation Report, December 2010/January 2011; and “Schleicher v. Wendt Impact:  The Seventh Circuit Splits with the Fifth Circuit on Class Certification Requirements,” Securities Litigation Report (with Associate Amy L. Abate), October 2010.

Mr. Haber is admitted to the Bar of the State of New York, the United States Courts of Appeals for the Second and Sixth Circuits, the United States District Courts for the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York, the Western District of Pennsylvania, and is a member of the Securities Regulation Committee of the New York City Bar Association.