Each year FRT helps hundreds of institutional investors participate in non-US securities litigation. As a result, we have a landscape view of how suits in different countries are prosecuted by different organizers. Below we discuss four positive trends we’re seeing and encourage organizers to take advantage of them when structuring future recovery efforts. FOUR POSITIVE TRENDS 1. Representative suits: Half Continue Reading

Securities class actions are under siege in Australia. Political forces led by the Treasurer and Attorney General have cut back investor protections under the continuous disclosure regime and imposed licensing requirements on litigation funders and their financing arrangements. They are now pursuing legislation to force all securities cases into federal court to more effectively ‘reform’ the system and eliminate the Continue Reading