Jordan D. Peterson

Since joining Kirkland, Jordan has been involved in the following matters:

• Representing two pharmaceutical companies in securities class actions relating to alleged anticompetitive conduct concerning the pricing and market for certain generic pharmaceutical products.
• Representing a publicly-traded information technology services company, including throughout a two-week trial, in litigation involving hundreds of millions of dollars in alleged damages related to a spin-off transaction.
• Representing 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.
• Representing a private equity firm and its founder in multiple federal and state securities actions arising from allegedly fraudulent financial reporting by a startup company.
• Represented Fox Corporation and certain former officers and directors of Twenty-First 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 21CF’s $73 billion merger with Walt Disney Company and the separation of Fox Corporation.

Prior to joining Kirkland, Jordan was involved in the following matters:

• Represented Qualcomm Incorporated in antitrust litigation and investigations in the U.S. and abroad, including coordinated litigation against another technology company and the FTC in federal court in California. Tried to verdict action brought by the FTC. 
• Represented Palantir Technologies in multiple lawsuits brought by a shareholder in Delaware Chancery Court and Delaware Superior Court.
• Represented PG&E in litigation with plaintiffs alleging billions of dollars in damages related to wildfires and in related governmental investigations.
• 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.