In re Merrill Lynch & Co., Inc. Securities, Derivative & ERISA Litigation

Berger Montague served as co-lead counsel and obtained a recovery of $475 million in 2009 for the benefit of the class in one of the largest recoveries arising out of the U.S. financial crisis. The case was litigated in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York and captioned In re Merrill Lynch & Co., Inc. Securities, Derivative & ERISA Litigation, No. 07-cv-9633(JSR)(DFE) (S.D.N.Y.).

U.S. District Court Judge Jed Rakoff, in reviewing and approving the settlement, noted that the lead counsel had made “very full and well-crafted” and “excellent submissions”; that there was a “very fine job done by plaintiffs’ counsel in this case”; and that this was “surely a very good result under all the facts and circumstances.”

In re Merrill Lynch & Co., Inc. Securities, Derivative & ERISA Litigation, No. 07-cv-9633(JSR)(DFE) (S.D.N.Y. July 27, 2009).

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