Nicholas Dennany

Nicholas J. Dennany focuses his practice on investigating and analyzing pending and potential complex securities matters and derivative breach of fiduciary duty claims on behalf of the Firm’s institutional investor clients. 
 
For more than five years, Nick has been a key member of the Firm’s Client Monitoring and Case Evaluation Group in which he, together with a team of attorneys and financial analysts, develops and recommends legal strategies to the Firm’s clients to protect and preserve their investments and rights as shareholders. 
 
Nick has also played a key role as a member of the Firm’s securities litigation team and has more than a decade of litigation experience.  He contributed to the Firm’s discovery efforts in In re Genworth Financial Inc. Securities Litigation which resulted in a settlement of $219 million, a record for securities litigations in the Eastern District of Virginia. 
 
Previously, Nick litigated In re MF Global Holdings Limited Securities Litigation in connection with the company’s dramatic collapse on October 31, 2011.  Nick managed the Firm’s staff attorney discovery team through a complex discovery process involving the production of over 46 million pages of documents and dozens of depositions coordinated across multiple MF Global litigations. Plaintiffs secured settlements totaling over $234 million, resolving claims against MF Global’s former officers and directors, underwriter defendants, and MF Global’s outside auditor.

Prior to joining the Firm, Nick was an attorney at a prominent plaintiffs law firm, where he was a member of the teams that successfully litigated and ultimately secured significant settlements in In re Broadcom Corp. Securities Litigation ($173.5 million) and In re NovaGold Resources Inc. Securities Litigation ($28 million CDN).