Chet B. Waldman - New York, NY

Overview

Awards and Honors

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Education

Current Employment Position(s)

• Senior Partner

Classes and Seminars

• National Conference of Public Employee Retirement Systems (“NCPERS”)
  
• Georgia Association of Public Pension Trustees ("GAPPT")
  
• Pennsylvania Association of Public Employee Retirement Systems (“PAPERS”)
  
• Surprise Medical Bills: Why You Don’t Want Them And What You Can Do If You Get One, IPPFA Illinois Pension Conference, Galena, IL, May 10, 2023;
  
• Surprise Healthcare Bill Regulatory and Litigation Developments, 14th Annual GAPPT Conference, Buford, GA, March 21, 2023;
  
• Surprise Healthcare Bill Regulatory and Litigation Developments, Opal Group Investment Education Symposium In Conjunction with the Louisiana Trustee Education Council (LATEC), New Orleans, LA, February 16, 2023 ;
  
• Surprise Healthcare Bill Regulatory and Litigation Developments, Koried Plan Sponsor Educational Institute, Key West, FL, January 18, 2023;
  
• Surprise Healthcare Bill Regulatory and Litigation Developments, NCPERS Public Safety Conference, Nashville, TN, Monday October 24, 2022;
  
• The Case for and Against Shareholders Litigating ESG Issues, NCPERS, Washington, D.C., May 25, 2022;
  
• How the Global Financial System Helps the World's Rich Get Richer, The 2018 KORIED Global Summit, Coral Gables, FL, July 12, 2018;
  
• How the Global Financial System Helps the World's Rich Get Richer: Part 2 - The Pandora Papers, KORIED Plan Sponsor Educational Institute, Key West, FL, January 21, 2022;
  
• Class Actions in Latin America and Their Interaction with the U.S. Market, Hispanic National Bar Association, October 2021;
  
• Ten Years After the Financial Crisis, National Association of Police Organizations, Las Vegas, NV, Feb. 5, 2019; and KORIED Plan Sponsor Educational Institute, Key West, FL, Jan. 16, 2019;
  
• 10 Years After the Financial Crisis: Where Do Shareholder Rights Stand?, 12th Annual PAPERS Fall Workshop, Philadelphia, PA, Nov. 27, 2018;
  
• Case Study on Lessons Learned from the Petrobras Bribery Scandal, KORIED Plan Sponsor Educational Institute, Jan. 18, 2018;
  
• The Long and Winding Saga of the Wyly Brothers, NCPERS, New Orleans, LA, Oct. 27, 2014;
  
• More Bad Corporate Behavior - What’s a Fiduciary to do? IPPFA, Lake Geneva, WI,Oct. 2, 2013;
  
• Defending Your Defined Benefit: Capital Stewardship, NCPERS 2013 Annual Conference and Exhibition, Honolulu, HI, May 19, 2013;
  
• U.S. Class Actions: What Are They And Why Are They Necessary? Mexico Investors Forum, Mexico City, Mexico, Nov. 12, 2012;
  
• Gordon Gekko Lives: The Galleon Insider Trading Scandal, Inter-American Bar Association, Isla Margarita, Venezuela, June 6, 2012, and NCPERS Conference, New York, NY, May 7, 2012.

Representative Cases

• Edwards v. McDermott Int'l, Inc., 2021 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 71758 (S.D. Tex. Apr. 14, 2021);
• Lipman v. GPB Capital Holdings, LLC, C.A. No. 2020-0054-SG, 2020 WL 6778781 Del. Ch. (Dec. 3, 2020);
• Bozarth v. Envision Healthcare Corp., 2020 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 117294 (C.D. Cal, June 30, 2020);
• Pub. Empls. Ret. Sys. of Miss. v. TreeHouse Foods, Inc., Case No. 16-cv-10632, 2020 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 32586 (N.D. Ill. Feb 26, 2020);
• MAZ Partners LP v. First Choice Healthcare Sols., Inc., Case No.: 6:19-cv-619-Orl-4OLRM, 2020 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 38799 (M.D. Fl. Feb. 14, 2020);
• MAZ Partners LP v. Shear (In re PHC, Inc. S'holder Litig.), Nos. 17-1821, 17-1904, 2018 U.S. App. LEXIS 18035 (1st Cir. July 2, 2018), cert. denied, 139 S. Ct. 489 (2018); MAZ Partners LP v. PHC, Inc. (In re PHC S'holder Litig.), 762 F.3d 138 (1st Cir. 2014); MAZ Partners LP v. Shear, 2017 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 108678 (D. Mass. July 13, 2017); MAZ Partners LP v. Shear, 2016 WL 4574640 (D. Mass. Sept. 1, 2016); In re PHC, Inc. S'holder Litig., 2012 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 44616 (D. Mass. Mar. 30, 2012);
• Flynn v. Sientra, Inc., 2016 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 83409 (C.D. Cal. June 9, 2016);
• In re Cornerstone Therapeutics Inc. Stockholder Litig., C.A. No. 8922-VCG, 2014 Del. Ch. LEXIS 170 (Del. Ch. Sept. 10, 2014), rev'd sub nom., In re Cornerstone Therapeutics Inc. S'holder Litig., 115 A.3d 1173 (Del. 2015);
• Anwar v. Fairfield Greenwich, Ltd., 09 Civ. 0118 (VM), 2010 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 86716 (S.D.N.Y. Aug. 18, 2010); Anwar v. Fairfield Greenwich, Ltd., 09 Civ. 0118 (VM), 2010 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 78425 (S.D.N.Y. Jul. 29, 2010);
• Watts v. Jackson Hewitt Tax Serv., 579 F. Supp. 2d 334 (E.D.N.Y. 2008);
• Ehrenhaus v. Baker (Wachovia/Wells Fargo), 717 S.E.2d 9, 2011 N.C. App. LEXIS 2161 (N.C. App. Oct. 4, 2011), appeal dism'd, review den'd, 2012 N.C. LEXIS 1099 (N.C. Dec. 12, 2012);
• In re Netsmart Technologies, Inc. Shareholders Litigation, 924 A.2d 171 (Del. Ch. 2007);
• Middlesex Retirement System v. Quest Software, Inc., 527 F.Supp.2d 1164 (C.D. Cal. 2007);
• Corr. Officers’ Benevolent Ass’n of the City of N.Y. v. Express Scripts (In re Express Scripts), 522 F. Supp. 2d 1132 (E.D. Mo. 2007);
• In re Mutual Funds Investment Litigation, 478 F. Supp. 2d 833 (D. Md. Feb. 2007); In re Mutual Funds Investment Litigation, 384 F. Supp. 2d 845 (D. Md. 2005);
• In re Coordinated Title Insurance Cases, 784 N.Y.S.2d 919 (Sup. Ct. Nassau Co. 2004);
• In re Loewen Group Inc. Sec. Litig., No. 98-6740, 2004 WL 1853137 (E.D. Pa. Aug. 18, 2004);
• In re Sunbeam Sec. Litig., 89 F. Supp. 2d 1326 (S.D. Fla. 1999);
• In re WebSecure, Inc. Sec. Litig., 182 F.R.D. 364 (D. Mass. 1998); Nager v. WebSecure, Inc., [1998 Supp. Transfer Binder] Fed. Sec. L. Rep. (CCH) 90,111 (D. Mass. Nov. 26, 1997);
• Zuckerman v. FoxMeyer Health Corp., 4 F. Supp.2d 618 (N.D. Tex. 1998);
• In re JWP Inc. Securities Litigation, 928 F. Supp. 1239 (S.D.N.Y. 1996).

Published Works

Articles

• co-author of the Chapter on "Managing Class Actions" in the American Bar Association's Guide for In-House Counsel: Practical Resource to Cutting-Edge Issues, March 2019.
  

Bar Admissions

• New York, 1986
• U.S. District Court Eastern District of New York, 1988
• U.S. District Court Southern District of New York, 1988
• U.S. Court of Appeals 1st Circuit, 2013
• U.S. Court of Appeals 2nd Circuit, 2022
• U.S. Court of Appeals 8th Circuit, 2020

Other Affiliations

• New York City Bar Association's Consumer Affairs Committee, Member
• Inter-American Bar Association, Council Member
• Law360’s Consumer Protection Editorial Advisory Board for 2023
• Mergers & Acquisition Committee of the New York City Bar Association
• Member of the Securities Litigation Committee