S&C Co-Chair Robert Giuffra Jr. was shortlisted for “Securities Litigator of the Year” in Benchmark Litigation’s 2025 U.S. Awards, after winning the award last year. The awards recognize “the country’s most distinguished litigators and their firms for their exemplary work over the past 12 months.”
In the past year, Bob achieved important victories for clients in a range of complex securities litigations, including for:
- Volkswagen AG and its affiliates, reaching a highly favorable resolution of an SEC lawsuit and ending the last significant legal action related to Volkswagen’s diesel matters in the United States. After Bob narrowed the case, the SEC agreed to dismiss the claims against Volkswagen AG and its former CEO with prejudice, leaving only a settlement of non-fraud charges with a U.S. financing subsidiary. Volkswagen resolved the SEC’s claims for just $48.75 million, roughly seven percent of the $700 million sought by the SEC, according to Reuters.
- Allianz SE and its U.S. subsidiary, Allianz Global Investors U.S. (AGI-US), which obtained the dismissal with prejudice of all claims brought by a putative class of investors in ADRs. The plaintiffs had sued after AGI-US pled guilty to securities fraud based on three rogue portfolio managers’ misrepresentations to investors in AGI US’s Structured Alpha Funds, which collapsed in 2020, leading to billions in investor losses.
- The Republic of Argentina, which obtained a ruling that it does not owe more than $650 million to hedge funds that speculated on its GDP-linked securities.
- Ericsson, as the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit affirmed the dismissal with prejudice of a proposed securities class action against the company, its CEO, and its former CFO and chief legal officer. The court held that the defendants were not required to disclose an internal investigation into Ericsson’s activities in Iraq.
A fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers and the International Academy of Trial Lawyers, Bob has been consistently recognized as a leading litigator in the United States over the past decade. The American Lawyer selected him as “Litigator of the Year” in 2014 and as “Litigator of the Week” eight times since June 2011. He is an eleven-time Law360 MVP, the most for any lawyer since Law360 started naming MVPs, and was recognized as a “Distinguished Leader” in 2021 by New York Law Journal. He served as Chief Counsel of the U.S. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs and was a primary drafter of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Chambers USA ranks Bob as a “Star Individual” for New York Securities Litigation.