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Jay W. Eisenhofer
Direct Dial: (302) 622-7050
E-Mail: jeisenhofer@gelaw.com
Jay Eisenhofer, founder and managing partner of G&E, 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, and the historic $450 million pan-European settlement in the Shell case. 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 been prominently featured in Law Dragon’s formidable ‘Law Dragon 500’ list of leading litigators in America. Treasury and Risk Management magazine selected Mr. Eisenhofer as one of the 100 Most Influential People in Finance. The National Law Journal has selected Grant & Eisenhofer as one of the top ten plaintiffs’ law firms in the country for the last three years. Mr. Eisenhofer has served as litigation counsel to many of the largest public and private institutional investors in the world, including CalPERS, Colorado Public Employees Retirement Association, the Florida State Board of Administration, the Teachers’ Retirement System of Louisiana, Ohio Public Employees Retirement Systems, Stichting Pensioenfonds ABP, and Franklin Advisers, Inc. He is currently lead counsel in the securities class actions involving Apple Computer and Marsh & McLennan, among others.
Mr. Eisenhofer is a graduate of the University of Pittsburgh (1978), and Villanova University School of Law, magna cum laude (1986), 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.
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.
Bar Admissions:
- Delaware
- New Jersey
- New York
- Pennsylvania
- United States Circuit Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
- United States Circuit Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
- United States Circuit Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
- United States Circuit Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
- United States Circuit Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit
- United States District Court for the District of Delaware
- United States District Court for the District of New Jersey
- United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania
- United States District Court for the Southern District of New York
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