The Australian Class Action Landscape

Cases, Developments & Trends of Interest to Investors

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The Australian Class Action Landscape

Please join ISS Securities Class Action Services and Maurice Blackburn Lawyers, a leading Australia-based plaintiff class action firm, for a detailed discussion on Australian cases, developments, and trends of interest to institutional investors and pension funds from across the globe. Specifically, the event will cover current cases that investors should strongly consider joining and meaningful recent events, including:

  • Investigation into the Crown Resorts Ltd (ASX: CWN) class action expansion based on explosive evidence from the recent NSW Casino inquiry
  • Parliamentary Inquiry into litigation funding regulations
    • How did it come about and what is it aiming to achieve?
    • What are the critical issues that need to be addressed in the CA regime?
    • Outcomes of the inquiry
  • Worley Ltd (ASX:WOR) – the second Australian shareholder case to reach a jury verdict
    • What are the potential impacts of this – can we expect to see a new trend?

The event will be led by Jeff Lubitz, Executive Director, ISS SCAS, and Miranda Nagy, Principal Lawyer, Maurice Blackburn.

For those who may not have the opportunity to join the webinar live, please register and a link to the recorded event will be provided.

WEBINAR

December 9, 2020
10:00am AEDT | 8:00am JST | 8:00am KST

December 8, 2020
6:00pm EST | 5:00pm CST | 3:00pm PST

This event is limited to institutional investors
and pension funds only.

SPEAKERS

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JEFF LUBITZ

Executive Director, ISS Securities Class Action Services

Jeff Lubitz is Executive Director of ISS’ Securities Class Action Services (SCAS), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Institutional Shareholder Services. In this capacity, Jeff works closely with the world’s largest mutual funds, hedge funds, asset managers, and pension funds. Jeff is Managing Editor of all SCAS thought leadership, overseeing the production of webinars, events, white papers, and reports, including a newly added “This Week in Securities Class Actions” posting. Jeff is a frequent speaker at industry events on the complex topic of global securities litigation and a contributor to the press with commentary featured in Reuters, Fortune, Bloomberg Law, Law360, and elsewhere. Jeff earned his B.A. from The American University and a MBA from Tulane University.

The Australian Class Action Landscape

MIRANDA NAGY

Principal, Maurice Blackburn Lawyers

Miranda Nagy is a Principal Lawyer in Maurice Blackburn’s class actions department in Sydney. She is a leading lawyer in complex litigation around consumer protection and corporate accountability in Australia. Currently she leads two class actions on behalf of over 400,000 superannuation fund members alleging breaches of trustee duties in the implementation of the MySuper reforms, including the first against Colonial First State Investments Limited. In recent years, she has also led a class action against listed wine company Treasury Wine Estates, for breach of its continuous disclosure obligations, which settled in 2017 for $49 million; and been responsible for the conduct and successful resolution of several securities class actions against listed companies as well as in a number of public interest cases including a class action on behalf of children unlawfully arrested by NSW police.

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