Brower Piven

A Professional Corporation

With offices in Baltimore County, Maryland and New York City, 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, & "ERISA" Litigation pending in the United 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 lead counsel in pending shareholder litigation challenging the proposed $38 billion take-over of Equity Office Properties Trust, one of the largest going private transactions in business history.  Brower Piven is also currently plaintiffs' court-appointed lead or co-lead counsel in the following federal securities class actions: Freudenberg v. E*Trade Financial Corporation, et al. (S.D. N.Y.); Landmen Partners, Inc. v. The Blackstone Group L.P., et al. (S.D. N.Y.); In Re: Municipal Mortgage & Equity, LLC Securities and Derivative Litigation (D. Md.); Minneapolis Firefighters' Relief Association v. MEMC Electronic Materials, Inc., et al. (E.D. Mo.); The Pennsylvania Avenue Funds v. INYX, Inc., et al. (S.D. N.Y.) Gooden v. Smart OnLine, Inc., et al. (M.D. N.C.); In re Crocs, Inc. Securities Litigation (D. Colo.); Kaplan v. Gaming Partners International, Inc. (D. Nev.); Wagner v. Barrick Gold Corporation, et al. (S.D. N.Y); In re Interlink Electronics, Inc. Securities Litigation (C.D. Calif.); In re FoxHollow Technologies, Inc. Securities Litigation (N.D. Calif.); 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 has been co-lead and/or liaison counsel representing shareholders in merger-related class actions, including the following: Blaz v. Pan Pacific Retail Properties, Inc., et al. (Cir. Ct., Balto. 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., Balto. City); and In re PHH Corporation Transaction Litigation (Cir. Ct., Balto. Co.).  Brower Piven is also plaintiffs’ court-appointed co-lead or liaison counsel in shareholder derivative actions on behalf of shareholders of Bear Stearns & Co., Inc., Citigroup, Inc., and Merrill Lynch & Co., Inc.

Brower Piven is plaintiffs' counsel in the consumer class actions including the following: H&R Block, Inc. "Express IRA" Marketing Litigation (W.D. Mo.), Huff v. Liberty League, International, LLC, et al (C.D. Calif.) (Lead Counsel); Freedman v. Comcast Corp. (Cir. Ct., Balto. City) (Lead Counsel); and Segal v. Fifth Third Bancorp (S.D. Ohio) (Lead Counsel).

Brower Piven's experience is extremely broad and includes counseling and representing both public and non-public corporations and their executives, real estate developers, and large private investors in complex commercial litigation and on corporate governance matters, as well as representing both plaintiffs and defendants in class and non-class action litigation. 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 strategies 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 recovering over $1 billion in past and pending recoveries.