| Biography | Dominic J. Auld joined Labaton Sucharow with over seven years of experience in the area of large-scale securities class action litigation on behalf of major institutional investors. He has also worked in the areas of environmental and antitrust litigation. Mr. Auld is primarily responsible for working with the client and case development departments in identifying and analyzing investment-related cases on behalf of investors harmed by the conduct at issue. He also actively litigates on files directly involving his client base. Mr. Auld is charged with developing and managing the Firm's outreach to pension systems and sovereign wealth funds outside the United States and in that role he regularly advises clients in Europe, Australia, Asia and across his home country of Canada. Mr. Auld is a frequent speaker and panelist on topics such as Sovereign Wealth Funds, Corporate Governance, Shareholder Activism, Fiduciary Duty, Corporate Misconduct, SRI, and Class Actions. As a result of his expertise in these areas, he has become a sought-after commentator for issues concerning public pension funds, public corporations, and federal regulations. Mr. Auld is a regular speaker at law and investment conferences, including most recently the IMF (Australia) Shareholder Class Action Conference in Sydney and the 2011 Annual International Bar Association meeting in Dubai. Additionally, Mr. Auld is frequently quoted in newspapers such as The Financial Times, The New York Times, USA Today, The Times of London, Thee Evening Standard, The Daily Mail, The Guardian, and trade publications like Global Pensions, OP Risk and Regulation, The Lawyer, Corporate Counsel, Investments and Pensions Europe, Professional Pensions, and Benefits Canada. Recently Mr. Auld published an article on custodian bank fees and their impacts on pension funds globally in Nordic Regions Pensions and Investment News magazine and was interviewed by Corporate Counsel for a feature article on rogue trading. Mr. Auld is on the front line of reforming the corporate environment, driving improved accountability and responsibility for the benefit of clients, the financial markets and the public as a whole. Prior to joining Labaton Sucharow, Mr. Auld practiced securities litigation at Bernstein Litowitz Berger & Grossmann LLP, where he began his career as a member of the team responsible for prosecuting the landmark WorldCom action which resulted in a settlement of over $6 billion. He also has a great deal of experience working directly with institutional clients affected by securities fraud; he worked extensively with the Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan in their actions In re Nortel Networks Corporation Securities Litigation, In re Williams Securities Litigation and In re Biovail Corporation Securities Litigation - cases that settled for a total of over $1.7 billion. In the last two years, Mr. Auld has focused his practice on client relationships and development, and regularly advises large worldwide institutional investors on their rights and avenues of recovery available in the U.S. Courts and elsewhere. As a law student at Lewis and Clark Law School in Portland, Oregon, Mr. Auld served as a founding member of the law review, Animal Law, which explores legal and environmental issues relating to laws such as the Endangered Species Act. Noteworthy Media Roundtable Discussion with Jordan A. Thomas and Dominic J. Auld on How U.S. Financial Reforms and Recent Whistleblower Provisions Impact Global Financial Institutions The True Price of Trusting Custodians Dominic J. Auld Quoted in Corporate Counsel
(October 4, 2011) Dominic J. Auld Quoted in The Guardian
(September 27, 2011) Dominic J. Auld Quoted in Law360
(September 15, 2011) Dominic J. Auld Quoted in Bloomberg Business Week Ongoing Cases In re Computer Sciences Corporation Securities Litigation |