With offices in New York City and Baltimore, Maryland, Brower Piven focuses its practice in the areas of complex class action and other representative litigation. The firm's practice areas, while diverse, enable Brower Piven clients to call upon experience and resources available at few firms of its size. Brower Piven clients range from institutional and large private investors, to small and large businesses, to small individual investors and retail consumers. Regardless of the size of the matter, Brower Piven provides every client with the professional service, care, and quality that Brower Piven believes every client deserves.
Attorneys at Brower Piven, some with over 25 years of experience, are nationally recognized in the class action arena. The firm's attorneys have vast experience advising and representing plaintiffs in class actions under the federal securities laws; federal and state consumer protection laws; federal and state antitrust laws; state shareholder and corporate governance laws; federal and state environmental laws; and federal RICO laws. Brower Piven attorneys have served their clients in literally hundreds of actions in virtually every state and federal court in the nation.
Some current matters in which Brower Piven has a leadership role demonstrate the scope of the firm's expertise. Brower Piven is co-lead counsel in the In re Merck Securities, Derivative, and "ERISA" Litigation pending in the Untied States District Court for the District of New Jersey, considered by many the largest federal securities fraud action in terms of damages in history, and co-lead and liaison counsel in the shareholder litigations challenging the proposed $38 billion take-over of Equity Office Properties Trust, one of the largest going private transaction in business history. Brower Piven is also co-lead counsel in the following federal securities class actions: Wagner v. Barrick Gold Corporation et al. (S.D.N.Y); In re Interlink Electronics, Inc. Securities Litigation (C.D. Cal.); In re FoxHollow Technologies, Inc. Securities Litigation (N.D. Cal); Levie v. Sears Roebuck & Co. et al. (N.D. Ill.); and In re Arotech Corp. Securities Litigation (E.D.N.Y.). Brower Piven is or was co-lead and/or liaison counsel representing shareholders in the following merger-related class actions: Blaz v. Pan Pacific Retail Properties, Inc. et al. (Cir. Ct., Balt. Co.); In re Reckson Associates Realty Corp. Shareholders Litigation (N.Y. Sup. Ct., Nassau Co.); In re Fairchild Corp. Shareholders Litigation (Del. Ch.); In re Laureate Education Shareholder Litigation (Cir. Ct. Balt. City); In re PHH Corporation Transaction Litigation (Cir. Ct., Balt. Co.); In re Huntsman Corporation Shareholder Litigation (Del. Ch.). Brower Piven is also counsel in the consumer class action, H&R Block, Inc. "Express IRA" Marketing Litigation, MDL No. 1786 (W.D. Mo.).
The breadth of Brower Piven's experience, which includes extensive experience counseling and representing defendants, corporations and their executives, real estate developers and large private investors in complex commercial litigation, class and non-class action litigation, and on corporate governance matters. The firm's experience on both sides of the bar makes it uniquely qualified to provide its clients with a perspective not available from firms that solely represent plaintiffs or defendants. The success of the strategy pursued by Brower Piven's attorneys in representing their clients over the years has been demonstrated by clients and classes represented by attorneys at Brower Piven attorneys recovering over $1 billion in past and pending recoveries.