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Barrack Rodos & Bacine

2001 Market Street
Philadelphia, PA 19103
215-963-0600 (firm)
http://www.barrack.com

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Jeffrey W. Golan, a partner in Barrack, Rodos & Bacine, joined the firm in 1990. After graduating from law school, Mr. Golan served as a Law Clerk for the Honorable Edwin D. Steel, Jr. of the United States District Court Judge in the District of Delaware. After his clerkship, Mr. Golan joined a large firm in Philadelphia, where he concentrated his practice on commercial litigation, including the representation of plaintiffs and defendants in federal securities and antitrust cases. For the last several years, Mr. Golan has been selected as a Pennsylvania "Super Lawyer” in the field of Securities Litigation. In June 2000, he was honored as the “Featured Litigator” in the on-line magazine published by Summation Legal Technologies, the legal software company.

Since joining BR&B, Mr. Golan has been BR&B’s primary attorney in many major securities fraud cases throughout the country. At present, along with Leonard Barrack, he is serving as BR&B’s primary attorney in the In re American International Group, Inc. Securities 2008 Litigation, in which the firm was appointed as a lead counsel for the putative class. He served as BR&B’s lead trial attorney in In re WorldCom, Inc. Securities Litigation, a prosecution that yielded a record-breaking recovery of more than $6.13 billion for defrauded investors and one of the most notable fraud cases ever to go to trial. In April 2005, Mr. Golan led the BR&B team that tried the case against the only non-settling defendant in WorldCom, the company’s former auditor Arthur Andersen LLP. Andersen agreed to settle the claims against it in the fifth week of trial, shortly before closing arguments.

Mr. Golan also served as BR&B’s primary attorney for a number of other significant securities class actions including: the landmark case against Cendant Corporation, which settled for $3.18 billion, at the time, the highest recovery every achieved in a securities fraud class case – a settlement that also included significant corporate governance reforms; the case against DaimlerChrysler, which settled for $300 million; as well as in cases against Employee Solutions, Marion Merrell Dow, General Instrument and One Bancorp, among others.

Mr. Golan also served as the firm’s lead attorney in the securities fraud class action involving Mills Corporation, which settled with the defendant real estate investment trust corporation, its officers and directors, its auditor, Ernst & Young, and a foreign real estate development company for a total of $202.75 million, plus interest, the largest securities class recovery ever in Virginia. In August 2003, Mr. Golan was the lead trial attorney for the firm in an action in the Delaware Chancery Court, Equity Asset Investment Trust, et al. v. John G. Daugman, et al., in which the firm represented Iridian Technologies, Inc. (the world leader in iris recognition technologies) and its common shareholder-elected directors. The case was brought against the company and the common directors in June 2003, prepared for trial within two months under the Chancery Court’s “fast-track” procedures for Board contests, and went to trial by late August 2003.

Mr. Golan has also headed up the firm’s representation of lead plaintiffs in a number of derivative actions stemming from the stock option backdating scandal, and served as the firm’s lead attorney in several cases challenging proposed corporate transactions. He represented institutional and individual lead plaintiffs in a case that challenged the proposed buy-out of Lafarge N.A. by its majority shareholder, Lafarge S.A., which was settled when Lafarge S.A. agreed to increase the buy-out price from the $75.00 per share initially offered to $85.50 per share (a $388 million increase in the amount paid to Lafarge N.A.’s public shareholders) and when Lafarge N.A. agreed to make additional disclosures about the company and the proposed transaction. He was appointed as a co-lead counsel in consolidated shareholder cases challenging the majority shareholder buy-out of Nationwide Financial Services, Inc., where as part of a settlement approved in August 2009 the acquirer raised its offer price from $47.20 per share to $52.25 per share (which the court found had provided an aggregate economic benefit of $232.8 million to NFS shareholders), and in shareholder cases challenging the proposed acquisitions of Wm. Wrigley Jr. Company by Mars, Incorporated and of Commerce Bancorp by The Toronto-Dominion Bank. Mr. Golan also recently served as a co-lead counsel in consolidated shareholder cases challenging PepsiCo’s acquisition of Pepsi Bottling Group. After such lawsuits were filed, PepsiCo increased its offer price from $29.50 to $36.50 per share, which provided PBG’s public shareholders with an additional $1.022 billion in value. The court approved the settlement of the case on June 1, 2010.

Mr. Golan has also served in numerous capacities for the Public Interest Law Center of Philadelphia, including as Vice-Chair of the Board, and on the staff of the Mayor’s Task Force for the Employment of Minorities in the Philadelphia Police Force.

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Presentations:
  • Law Seminars International Workshop, Estimating Damages in Securities Litigation
    May 7, 2007, The Yale Club of New York City, New York, NY
    (Speaker on "Challenges in Proving Damages from the Plaintiff's Perspective")

  • Corporate Governance Seminar, Georgetown Law School
    October 17, 2006 (class of Professor Donald Langevoort)

  • Law Seminars International Workshop, Current Damages Issues in Securities Litigation
    June 5, 2006, The Yale Club of New York City, New York, NY
    (Speaker on "Challenges in Proving Damages from the Plaintiff's Perspective")

  • Law Seminars International Workshop, Estimating Damages in Securities Litigation
    June 6, 2005, Marriott Financial Center, New York, NY
    (Speaker on "Damages from the Plaintiff's Perspective")

  • ALI-ABA's Twelfth Annual Corporate Governance Institute,
    December 1-2, 2005, Fordham University School of Law, New York, NY
    (Speaker on "Due Diligence After WorldCom: Is It Possible to Protect Directors?")

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He lassoed $3 billion for Cendant shareholders, then eclipsed that with $6 billion for WorldCom investors.
— Lawdragon, February 2007






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