Hannah Ross - New York, NY

Ms. Ross is involved in a variety of the firm’s litigation practice areas, focusing in particular on securities fraud, corporate governance, shareholder rights and other complex commercial matters. She has over a decade of experience as a civil and criminal litigator, and represents the firm’s institutional investor clients as counsel in a number of major pending actions.

Some of the litigations that Ms. Ross is currently prosecuting include the shareholder class action against Bank of America arising from its 2008 acquisition of Merrill Lynch pending in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York. Ms. Ross is also a senior member of the team prosecuting the securities class action against Washington Mutual and certain of its former officers and directors for alleged fraudulent conduct in the thrift’s home lending operations. The complaint against Washington Mutual, filed on behalf of Lead Plaintiff Ontario Teachers, is based on the results of BLB&G’s investigation - one of the most wide-ranging and fruitful ever conducted in this practice area. The complaint presents evidence gathered from eighty-nine (89) confidential witnesses and many previously-undisclosed documents.

Ms. Ross has also been a member of the trial teams in several securities litigations which have successfully recovered over $2 billion on behalf of injured investors. Among other matters, she prosecuted the securities class action against the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation (“Freddie Mac”), as well as In re The Mills Corporation Securities Litigation, In re Delphi Corporation Securities Litigation, In re Affiliated Computer Services, Inc. Derivative Litigation, In re Nortel Networks Corporation Securities Litigation and In re OM Group, Inc. Securities Litigation.

Ms. Ross handles pro bono matters on behalf of the firm and has also served as an adjunct faculty member in the trial advocacy program at the Dickinson School of Law of the Pennsylvania State University.

Before joining BLB&G, Ms. Ross was a prosecutor in the Massachusetts Attorney General’s Office as well as an Assistant District Attorney in the Middlesex County (Massachusetts) District Attorney’s Office.