Litigating Securities Class Actions

Jonathan Eisenberg is a partner with K&L Gates LLP in Washington, D.C. He is the former General Counsel for UBS Wealth Management Americas, and, before joining UBS, spent 12 of the immediately preceding 13 years at Merrill Lynch. At Merrill Lynch, he was General Counsel for Global Markets and Investment Banking Litigation and Co-Head of Global Litigation, Regulatory and Employment Law. In those roles, he was an active participant in many of the seminal securities class actions decided during the last decade, including many that are discussed in this book. He is the author of approximately two dozen articles on securities issues, including "Beyond the Basics: Seventy-Five Defenses Securities Litigators Need to Know," published in the August 2007 issue of The Business Lawyer, and Avoiding Insider Trading Liability, published by Matthew Bender. Jon was the first recipient of the "Litigation-Individual of the Year Award" presented by International Law Office.com and the Association of Corporate Counsel. He is a former chair of the Corporation, Finance and Securities Law Section of the D.C. Bar, a former Chair of the Section Chairs of the D.C. Bar, and a former co-chair of the Civil Litigation and SEC Enforcement Subcommittee of the American Bar Association. He graduated from Cornell University in 1974 and the University Of Virginia School Of Law in 1977.