Javier Bleichmar co-founded BFA and leads the firm’s U.S. Case Evaluation and U.S. Securities Litigation teams. He brings a decades-long career of litigation success to his prosecution of large-scale securities class and shareholder actions on behalf of institutional investors. Over the course of his career, Javier has secured significant recoveries for clients and the classes they represent, while achieving landmark and sweeping corporate governance improvements.
Javier has consistently been recognized as one of the nation’s leading plaintiffs’-side financial lawyers. He has been named a Titan of the Plaintiffs’ Bar by Law360, a SuperLawyer by Thomson Reuters, and a Leading Plaintiff Financial Lawyer by Lawdragon, and has been “recommended” in the field of securities litigation by the Legal 500. Most recently, Javier was profiled by The New York Law Journal, Forbes, Fortune, and CT Insider for his work achieving landmark outcomes.
Javier played a leading role in prosecuting the firm’s derivative stockholder action against Tesla’s Board of Directors in Delaware Chancery Court, resulting in a historic resolution valued at $919 million–the largest derivative settlement in Delaware history. He also spearheaded the securities class action against Teva Pharmaceutical Industries, Ltd., recovering $420 million for investors.
Other significant resolutions include the $234 million recovery in In re MF Global Holdings Limited Securities Litigation on behalf of BFA client Her Majesty the Queen in Right of Alberta in connection with MF Global’s collapse and bankruptcy, the $129 million for investors in the securities class action against Granite Construction Inc. that involved the company’s restatement of financial results in 2020, and successfully representing the Metropolitan Transportation Authority in an action against Allianz Global Investors U.S., L.L.C. that centered on Allianz’s now-defunct Structured Alpha funds, which toppled one of Allianz’s U.S. subsidiaries.
Javier has co-authored several articles concerning developments in the securities class action, group action and investor protection landscapes in the U.S. and globally, and has been published by The New York Law Journal, as well as in newsletters for the National Association of Public Pension Attorneys, the National Council on Teacher Retirement, and the National Conference on Public Employee Retirement Systems, among others.
Javier is a native Spanish speaker and fluent in French.