Andrew Morganti

Biography

Mr. Morganti has handled virtually all aspects of the plaintiff-side litigation and has argued motions in various U.S. state courts, the U.S. Federal District Court for the Southern District of New York, Northern and Central Districts of California, as well as Canada’s Ontario Superior Court of Justice, Ontario Court of Appeal, and Alberta and Quebec Superior Courts.

Mr. Morganti has been a guest lecturer in over a dozen conferences, including for the American Bar Association, University of Michigan Law, Ontario Bar Association, Offshore Alert (the Journal), and has been published in peer review journals, such as, Ellen Meriweather and Andrew Morganti, Emerging Trends in Certification of Antitrust Class Actions in Canada, ABA Antitrust, Vol. 24, No. 3, Summer 2010.  He has also served as a Vice Chair and Chair of the State Bar of Michigan’s Antirust Section as well as the Vice Chair of the American Bar Association’s Class Actions and Derivatives Suit Section.

Mr. Morganti was the founder of Morganti & Co., P.C., which had offices in Toronto and Montreal, Canada, and Den Haag, Netherlands. He previously and proudly practiced law at the firms of Milberg Weiss Bershad & Schulman, LLP (New York, New York), Finkelstein Thompson & Loughran, LLP (Washington, District of Columbia), and Miller Faucher Cafferty and Wexler, LLP (Ann Arbor, Michigan), where he focused his practice upon representing investors and small business owners in Antitrust and Shareholder Lawsuits.

Prior to joining Berger Montague, Mr. Morganti’s law firm in Canada was recognized as one of the top-50 shareholder class action law firms by ISS between 2017 and 2021, and lead counsel to several leading investor-supportive court decisions across Canada that distinguishes shareholders’ rights in Canada different from the United States, including Kaynes v. BP PLC, 117 OR (3d) 685; Paniccia v. MDC Partners Inc., 142 OR (3d) 421; Wong v. Pretium Resources, 139 OR (3d) 353; as well as being lead counsel in the first statutory shareholder claim in Alberta, Canada, identified as Stevens v. Ithaca Energy Inc., 2019 ABQB 474 (certifying a class of investors that purchased shares on the TSX, London’s AIM, and U.S.’ OTC markets) and in Quebec, Canada, identified as Cattucci c. Valeant Pharmaceuticals International Inc., 2017 QCCS 3870 (settling over $120 million).

Mr. Morganti is routinely involved in representing European investors in Canadian class actions as well as representing investors in micro-cap shareholder litigation such as in Kauf v. Colt Resources, Inc., 2019 ONSC 2179, where he recovered close to 50% of certain German class members’ losses that purchased shares on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange.