Stuart M. Grant
Direct Dial: (302) 622-7070
E-Mail: sgrant@gelaw.com
Stuart M. Grant is a founder and managing partner of Grant & Eisenhofer. His practice consists primarily of representing institutional investors nationwide in securities and corporate governance litigation, proxy contests, and other related matters. Mr. Grant has successfully argued on behalf of institutional investors in many groundbreaking cases including: Gluck v. CellStar (in which State of Wisconsin Investment Board was the first institution named as lead plaintiff pursuant to the PSLRA over the objection of first filed plaintiffs), and In re Digex stockholders litigation (in which lead plaintiff provisions were established in Delaware, and in which plaintiffs achieved the largest settlement in Delaware Chancery Court history). Most recently, Mr. Grant was lead trial counsel in the six-week securities class action trial of In re Safety-Kleen Corp. Bondholders Litigation, which resulted in judgments holding the company's CEO and CFO jointly and severally liable for nearly $200 million, and settlements with the remaining defendants for $84 million.
Mr. Grant is a frequent speaker on securities issues, particularly from the institutional investor perspective, at the Practising Law Institute, the Council of Institutional Investors and at other securities fora. In 2004, he taught at PricewaterhouseCoopers/University of Delaware Directors' College. Mr. Grant has also testified on behalf of institutional investors before the SEC and before the Third Circuit Panel on Appointment of Class Counsel. He has published numerous articles on securities litigation including: "Appointment of Lead Plaintiff Under the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act" 1070 PLI/CORP. 547 (1998); Practising Law Institute, 1998; "Appointment of Lead Plaintiff Under the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act: Update 2000" 1199 PLI/CORP. 455 (2000); Practising Law Institute, 2000; "Appointment of Lead Plaintiff Under the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act: Update 2001" 1269 PLI/CORP. 689 (2001); "Appointment of Lead Plaintiff Under the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act: Update 2002" 1332 PLI/CORP. 695 (2002); "Appointment of Lead Plaintiff Under the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act: Update 2003" 1386 PLI/CORP. 553 (2003); "The Role of Foreign Investors in Federal Securities Class Actions" 1442 PLI/CORP. 91 (2004); "Institutional Investors and Section 18 of The Exchange Act" The Review of Securities & Commodities Regulation, Vol. 33, No. 5, Standard & Poor's, March 14, 2000; and "Class Certification and Section 18 of the Exchange Act" the Review of Securities and Commodities Regulation, Vol. 35, No. 21, Standard & Poor's, December 11, 2002.
Prior to forming Grant & Eisenhofer in 1997, Mr. Grant was a litigation partner in the Wilmington office of the Philadelphia-based firm of Blank Rome Comisky & McCauley, and prior to that an associate at Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom, LLP. Since 1994, he has been an Adjunct Professor of Law at the Widener University School of Law in Wilmington, leading a securities litigation seminar for third-year law students, and is also a Certified Teacher for the National Institute of Trial Advocacy (NITA). Mr. Grant graduated in 1982 cum laude from Brandeis University with a B.A. in Economics and received his J.D. from New York University School of Law in 1986. He served as Law Clerk to the Honorable Naomi Reice Buchwald in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York.
Bar Admissions:
- Delaware
- Massachusetts
- New York
- Pennsylvania
- District of Columbia
- United States Supreme Court
- U.S. Court of Appeals for the 1st Circuit
- U.S. Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit
- U.S. Court of Appeals for the 3rd Circuit
- U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit
- U.S. Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit
- U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit
- U.S. District Court for the District of MA
- U.S. District Court for the District of DE
- U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of NY
- U.S. District Court for the Western District of NY
- U.S. District Court for the Southern District of NY
- U.S. District Court for the Northern District of NY
- U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of PA
- U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of MI
- U.S. District Court for the District of DC
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