Jordan D. Peterson, P.C.

Securities Litigation

• Representing Crown Laboratories, Inc., and Revance Therapeutics, Inc. in securities litigation arising out of Crown’s completed acquisition of Revance.
• Representing WEBTOON Entertainment, Inc. and certain of its directors and officers in securities lawsuit and related derivative case concerning alleged misstatements in the company’s registration statement about revenues and exposure to foreign currencies.
• Representing Sumo Logic and certain of its officers in securities litigation arising out of Francisco Partners’ $1.7 billion take-private acquisition of Sumo Logic, a SaaS analytics platform to enable reliable and secure cloud-native applications. Secured dismissal without prejudice of claims alleging the stock was undervalued in the merger.
• Represented Lannett Company in a securities class action in Pennsylvania federal court relating to alleged anticompetitive conduct concerning the pricing and market for certain generic pharmaceutical products. Won motion to stay the class action and secured an interlocutory appeal on class certification. Dismissed following Lannett's emergence from Chapter 11.
• Represented Amneal Pharmaceuticals and certain of its current and former officers and directors in putative class action litigation alleging Securities Act violations relating to its merger with Impax Laboratories. Settlement achieved.
• Represented Credit Suisse as national coordinating counsel in dozens of actions in multiple federal and state courts brought by private and governmental plaintiffs related to billions of dollars in securities.*

M&A / Corporate Governance Litigation

• Representing SOC Telemed in litigation regarding breaches in post-closing agreements related to SOC Telemed’s acquisition of Access Physicians Management Services Organization.
• Representing cryptocurrency company and its officers in a putative class action in the Delaware Chancery Court alleging breach of fiduciary duty and related claims arising from a multi-billion dollar corporate transaction. In 2024, the court granted Kirkland’s motion to compel arbitration and stayed the action.
• Represented a publicly-traded information technology services company in litigation involving hundreds of millions of dollars in alleged damages related to a spin-off transaction. Tried to verdict.
• Represented Whiting Petroleum Corporation and several of its officers and directors in shareholder litigation, a putative class action alleging breach of fiduciary duty and a related books and records demand stemming from its $6 billion merger with Oasis Petroleum. Defeated a motion to enjoin the stockholder vote on the proposed merger in the class action in the Delaware Court of Chancery, and all related cases were voluntarily dismissed.
• Represented HGGC, LLC and one of its affiliated funds in a putative class action filed in the Delaware Court of Chancery arising from its $446 million take-private acquisition of Nutraceutical International Corporation. Settlement achieved.
• Represented Fox Corporation and certain former officers and directors of 21st Century Fox, including Rupert Murdoch and his sons, and won dismissal in June 2020 of a shareholder derivative lawsuit filed in the Delaware Court of Chancery arising out of 21st Century Fox’s $73 billion merger with The Walt Disney Company and the separation of Fox Corporation.
• Represented Palantir Technologies in multiple lawsuits brought by a shareholder in the Delaware Court of Chancery and Delaware Superior Court.*
• Represented multiple clients in defending Section 220 and other similar books and records actions brought by shareholders.

Other Commercial Litigation

• Defending Constellation Brands and a number of its subsidiaries in two lawsuits in New York federal court alleging breach of contract and trademark infringement arising out of a licensing agreement with Modelo de Mexico, an Anheuser-Busch InBev company.
• Represented a private investment firm in a $100 million dispute brought by a terminated former partner alleging more than a dozen contractual and equitable claims. Tried to verdict. The arbitration panel denied all of the former partner’s claims for damages and found that he was in breach and had to return millions in escrowed severance.
• Represented Qualcomm Incorporated in antitrust litigation and investigations in the U.S. and abroad, including coordinated litigation against another technology company and the Federal Trade Commission in federal court in California. Tried to verdict action brought by the Federal Trade Commission.*
• Representing Caterpillar in defending and prosecuting applications under Section §1782 seeking to obtain discovery for use in a foreign proceeding. Defeated the petition seeking discovery of Caterpillar in 2022 and argued appeal in the Seventh Circuit.
• Represented PG&E in litigation with plaintiffs alleging billions of dollars in damages related to wildfires and in related governmental investigations.*

*Representations occurred prior to joining Kirkland