Lou Gottlieb has successfully represented institutional and individual investors in numerous securities and consumer class action cases, resulting in cumulative settlements well in excess of $500 million.

Mr. Gottlieb was an integral part of the Firm’s representation of the Connecticut Retirement Plans and Trust Funds in In re Waste Management, Inc. Securities Litigation, which resulted in a $457 million settlement, one of the largest settlements ever achieved in a securities class action. The settlement also included corporate governance enhancements, including an agreement by management to support a campaign to obtain shareholder approval of a resolution to declassify its board of directors, and a resolution to encourage and safeguard whistleblowers among the company’s employees.

Mr. Gottlieb has led litigation teams in the Metromedia Fiber Networks, Maxim Pharmaceuticals, and PriceSmart securities fraud class action litigations as well as a consumer breach of contract class action against New York Life Annuities. He is also helping to lead major class action cases against the company and related defendants in In re American International Group Inc. Securities Litigation, In re Royal Bank of Scotland Group plc Securities Litigation, and in In re Satyam Computer Services, Ltd. Securities Litigation.

Mr. Gottlieb has made presentations on punitive damages at Federal Bar Association meetings and has often spoken on securities class actions for institutional investors.

Mr. Gottlieb graduated first in his class from St. John’s School of Law. Prior to joining Labaton Sucharow, he clerked for the Hon. Leonard B. Wexler of the Eastern District of New York, and he was a litigation associate with Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom. He has also enjoyed a successful career as a public school teacher and as a restaurateur.