Jay Eisenhofer, co-founder and managing director of Grant & Eisenhofer, has been lead counsel in many of the largest securities class action recoveries in history, including the $3.2 billion settlement in the Tyco case, the $450 million settlement in the Global Crossing case, the historic $450 million pan-European settlement in the Shell case, as well as a $300 million settlement with DaimlerChrysler. Mr. Eisenhofer was the lead attorney in the seminal cases of American Federation of State, County & Municipal Employees, Employees Pension Plan v. American International Group, Inc., where the U.S. Court of Appeals required shareholder proxy access reversing years of SEC no-action letters, and Carmody v. Toll Brothers, wherein the Delaware Court of Chancery first ruled that so-called “dead-hand” poison pills violated Delaware law.

Mr. Eisenhofer has served as litigation counsel to many public and private institutional investors, including, among others, California Public Employees Retirement System, Colorado Public Employees Retirement Association, the Florida State Board of Administration, Louisiana State Employees Retirement System, the Teachers’ Retirement System of Louisiana, Ohio Public Employee Retirement Systems, State of Wisconsin Investment Board, American Federation of State, County & Municipal Employees, Service Employees International Union, Amalgamated Bank, Lens Investment Management, Inc. and Franklin Advisers, Inc.

Mr. Eisenhofer was recognized by Directorship Magazine in 2008 as one of the 100 most influential people in the field of corporate governance, a list that included figures like Ben Bernanke, Henry Paulson, Barney Frank, and Warren Buffet. In addition, he has been named by Law Dragon to its list of the top 500 lawyers in America. The National Law Journal has selected Grant & Eisenhofer as one of the top ten plaintiffs’ law firms in the country for the last four years, earning the firm a place in The National Law Journal’s Plaintiffs Firms Hall Of Fame. Mr. Eisenhofer serves as a member of the Advisory Boards for the Program on Corporate Governance at Harvard Law School and the Weinberg Center for Corporate Governance at the University of Delaware.

Mr. Eisenhofer has written and lectured widely on securities fraud and insurance coverage litigation, business and employment torts, directors' and officers' liability coverage, and the Delaware law of shareholder rights and directorial responsibilities. Among the publications he has authored: “The Shareholders Activism Handbook” Aspen Publishers; “Proxy Access Takes Center Stage – The Second Circuit’s Decision in AFSCME Employees Pension Plan v. American International Group, Inc.” Bloomberg Law Reports, Vol. 1, No. 5; “Investor Litigation in the U.S. - The System is Working” Securities Reform Act Litigation Reporter, Vol. 22, #5; “In re Walt Disney Co. Deriv. Litig. and the Duty of Good Faith Under Delaware Corporate Law” Bank & Corporate Governance Law Reporter, Vol. 37, #1; “Institutional Investors As Trend-Setters In Post-PSLRA Securities Litigation” Practicing Law Institute, July, 2006; “In re Cox Communications, Inc.: A Suggested Step in the Wrong Direction,” Bank and Corporate Governance Law Reporter, Vol. 35, #1; “Does Corporate Governance Matter to Investment Returns?” Corporate Accountability Report, Vol. 3, No. 37; “Loss Causation in Light of Dura: Who is Getting it Wrong?” Securities Reform Act Litigation Reporter, Vol. 20, #1; “Giving Substance to the Right to Vote: An Initiative to Amend Delaware Law to Require a Majority Vote in Director Elections,” Corporate Governance Advisor, Vol. 13, #1; “An Invaluable Tool in Corporate Reform: Pension Fund Leadership Improves Securities Litigation Process,” Pensions & Investments, Nov. 29, 2004; and “Securities Fraud, Stock Price Valuation, and Loss Causation: Toward a Corporate Finance-Based Theory of Loss Causation,” Business Lawyer, August 2004.

Mr. Eisenhofer is a graduate of the University of Pittsburgh (1978), and a 1986 magna cum laude graduate of Villanova Law School, Order of the Coif. He was a law clerk to the Honorable Vincent A. Cirillo, President Judge of the Pennsylvania Superior Court and thereafter joined the Wilmington office of Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom. Mr. Eisenhofer was a partner in the Wilmington office of Blank Rome Comisky & McCauley until forming G&E in 1997.