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Julia Alonzo

Senior Counsel
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Julia Alonzo is a senior counsel in the Litigation Department with a focus on securities and corporate governance litigation. She is experienced in complex securities and white collar litigation matters, including federal securities class actions, derivative lawsuits, internal investigations and federal white collar defense.

Julia maintains an active pro bono practice, with a focus on immigration law, asylum and child welfare issues. In addition, she sits on the associate board of the Brooklyn Defender Services Family Defense Practice, which aims to provide interdisciplinary representation to low-income parents in Brooklyn Family Court.

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Supreme Court to Consider Securities Class Action Issue

By Peter Duffy Doyle and Julia Alonzo on Posted in Financial Services, Securities Class Action, Securities Litigation
On December 11, 2020, the United States Supreme Court granted certiorari in a shareholder securities litigation against Goldman Sachs.[1] On appeal, Goldman argues that federal securities law permits issuer defendants in purported class actions to rebut the presumption of reliance where the alleged misstatements are of such a generic nature that they could not be … Continue Reading

Ninth Circuit Rejects Adverse-Interest Exception in Fraud-on-the Market Securities Class Actions

By Julia Alonzo and Jonathan Richman on Posted in Securities Litigation
Last week, the Ninth Circuit issued a decision that could affect analyses of corporate scienter in securities class actions. The court reversed the dismissal of In re ChinaCast Education Corporation Securities Litigation and held that a malfeasant executive’s knowledge could be imputed to his or her company when the executive acted with apparent authority. The … Continue Reading

Southern District of Florida Case Challenging Bylaw Requiring Minimum Stake to Sue Dismissed

By Julia Alonzo and Jonathan Richman on Posted in Corporate Governance
As we have previously discussed, there has been a growing trend of corporations’ adopting various types of bylaws to define the bounds of shareholder litigation. These include forum-selection bylaws (see here) and fee-shifting bylaws (now prohibited in Delaware for stock corporations as discussed here). A novel approach, utilized by at least three Florida corporations, is … Continue Reading

Demand Futility in Delaware Derivative Actions

By Julia Alonzo, Richard Spinogatti, Sarah Gold and Tanya Dmitronow on Posted in Securities Litigation
Introduction written by Tanya Dmitronow and Julia Pizzi. Full analysis written by Sarah Gold and Richard Spinogatti. Although they often involve overlapping issues, shareholder derivative lawsuits are fundamentally different from securities class actions. While the object of a securities class action is to hold the company (and, perhaps, its directors and officers) liable for harming investors and … Continue Reading

Of Wolf Packs, Plans and Pills: Making Puppies Out of Predators

By Julia Alonzo and Ralph Ferrara on Posted in Corporate Governance
Remember corporate raiders, green-mailers, and sharks? They have all moved up town and been embraced by ISS and its institutional investor clients as shareholder activists committed to corporate ‘‘reform.’’ Cheap capital and the expanded use of derivatives to accumulate enormous equity positions both quickly and quietly have fueled a binge that has more than tripled … Continue Reading
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