JOSEPH R. SEIDMAN, JR.

Senior Counsel

Phone: 212-779-1414 Fax: 212-779-3218

Joseph R. Seidman, Jr. has litigated complex class actions for almost 25 years. Mr. Seidman has worked on numerous securities fraud cases from inception through settlement, including: City of Austin Police Retirement System v. Kinross Gold Corp., No. 12-CV-01203-VEC (S.D.N.Y.) ($33 million recovery); In re Beazer Homes U.S.A., Inc. Securities Litigation, No. 07-CV-725-CC (N.D. Ga.) ($30.5 million recovery); In re Tower Group International, Ltd. Securities Litigation, 13-CV-5852 (S.D.N.Y.) ($20.5 million settlement); In re Taser International Securities Litigation, No. C05-0115 (D. Ariz.) ($20 million recovery); Avila v. LifeLock Inc., 15-cv-01398-SRB (D. Ariz.) ($20 million); Bitar v. REV Group, Inc., Case No. 2:18-cv-1268-LA (E.D. Wisc.) ($14.25 million); In re Willbros Group, Inc. Securities Litigation, No. 06-CV-1778 (S.D. Tex.) ($10.5 million recovery); In re KIT Digital, Inc. Securities Litigation, No. 12-CV-4199 (S.D.N.Y.) ($6 million recovery); and Peters v. JinkoSolar Holding Ltd., 11-CV-7133 (S.D.N.Y.) ($5.05 million recovery).

Mr. Seidman was part of the team that successfully litigated an appeal before the Second Circuit Court of Appeals, which reversed a dismissal of the JinkoSolar case and affirmed the materiality standard for securities actions.

Mr. Seidman has represented shareholders in derivative actions, including recovering $16 million for shareholders in a derivative action alleging that certain current and former directors of DeVry Education Group (currently known as Adtalem Global Education, Inc.) breached their fiduciary duties by allowing and approving a misleading advertising campaign.  Mr. Seidman also represented one of the lead plaintiffs in In re Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold, Inc. Derivative Litigation, C.A. No. 8110-VCN (Del. Ch.), which resulted in a $153.5 million recovery that represented the second largest derivative settlement in Delaware.

Mr. Seidman represents a class of direct purchaser plaintiffs in an antitrust action, In re Packaged Seafood Products Antitrust Litigation, Case No. 15-MD-2670 JLS (MDD) (S.D. Cal.). The plaintiffs in Packaged Seafood allege, inter alia, that several seafood companies illegally conspired to raise prices on various tuna products.

Currently, Mr. Seidman represents the City of Atlanta Firefighters’ Pension Fund in Speaks v. Taro Pharmaceutical Industries, LTD, 16-cv-08318-ALC (S.D.N.Y.), where investors allege that defendants inflated Taro’s stock price by representing that Taro’s growth occurred in a highly competitive environment, while Taro secretly colluded with its competition to fix generic drug prices.  Plaintiffs successfully opposed Defendants’ motion to dismiss in September 2018 and discovery is ongoing.

Mr. Seidman received his bachelor’s degree in 1994 from Queens College of the City University of New York and received his J.D. in 1997 from St. John’s University School of Law.

Mr. Seidman is admitted to the Bar of the State of New York. He is also admitted to practice before the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, and the United States District Courts for the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York.