Scott+Scott specializes in the investigation and prosecution of complex actions across the globe – recovering billions for our clients. The Firm has extensive experience litigating securities fraud, antitrust, and other complex cases and is a pioneer in structured finance monitoring for client portfolios. Scott+Scott’s proprietary PT+ monitoring service has been providing our institutional investor clients with comprehensive monitoring, superior tracking, and unparalleled securities analysis at no cost for more than 20 years.
Scott+Scott has extensive experience litigating across the following practice areas internationally:
Antitrust + Competition
$2.3 Billion in US settlements for market manipulation
Securities Litigation
Novel investment recovery under The Trust Indenture Act
Consumer Litigation
Data Breach case with $50 Million settlement
Corporate Governance
Record-setting sexual harassment settlement of $310 Million in corporate reforms
Scott+Scott has been offering our proprietary global monitoring service to clients, free of charge, for over 20 years. Our internal investigations team informs our client with recommendations and helps discover critical evidence and intelligence that support our litigation efforts.
Scott+Scott is pleased to announce the approval of a landmark settlement of $80M in an investor class action against some of the world’s largest banks, including Citigroup, UBS, NatWest, Bank of America, and Meryll Lynch, securing a total $120M in recovery and resolving the case in its entirety. In the long-running lawsuit In re European Government Bonds Antitrust Litigation filed in the United District Court of the Southern District of New York on behalf of three pension funds, Scott+Scott, along with co-counsel, alleged that the defendants conspired to fix European government bond prices.
Read MoreThe trial in the Car Delivery Charges legal action against a shipping cartel brought by Mark McLaren, class representative acting on behalf of UK consumers and businesses who purchased or leased new cars and vans between October 2006 and September 2015 will commence on Monday 13 January 2025 at 10:30am at the Competition Appeal Tribunal (CAT). The trial is scheduled to last for nine weeks. The trial is against the two remaining defendant shipping companies in the cartel, MOL and NYK who represent 47.7% of the cartel.
Read MoreScott+Scott Amsterdam on behalf of the Take Back Your Privacy Foundation (TBYP) today initiated legal proceedings at the Amsterdam court against Tinder Ireland and Match Group Inc., alleging that the companies for years violated data privacy laws and harvested sensitive personal data of their users for financial gain. According to the lawsuit, Tinder routinely collects much more sensitive private information from its users than necessary, for example by geotracking while using the app.
Read MoreUnited States District Court Judge Richard Seeborg of the Northern District Court of California, San Francisco Division, last week granted a landmark $200 million settlement reached with Uber Technologies, Inc. on behalf of a class of investors represented by Scott+Scott and other law firms as co-counsel. The long-running case involved the production and review of hundreds of thousands of Uber’s documents and dozens of depositions throughout the United States, including of Uber’s officers and directors. The $200 million settlement will be paid out to investors who purchased Uber shares shortly after the company went public.
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