Brendan Travers consults on litigation and regulatory investigations involving securities, market manipulation claims, and financial derivatives. Mr. Travers has significant experience analyzing damages and market efficiency issues. He leads teams to support clients and industry and academic experts in all phases of commercial litigation.
Mr. Travers’s experience includes:
Securities litigation
- Consulting on Rule 10b-5, Section 11, and Section 14a matters involving defendants in various industries and across a range of financial products, such as stocks, American depositary receipts (ADRs), bonds, and stock options
- Assessing class certification and merits issues, including analyzing the efficiency of markets for equities, bonds, and options
- Calculating potential damages and settlements in the context of class-wide mediation
Market manipulation and improper trading allegations
- Analyzing large electronic order books and transaction-level data to assess alleged manipulation in equity and options markets
- Assessing the impact of trading restrictions imposed by a retail broker for certain “meme” stocks
- Analyzing the impact of certain types of high-frequency trading on equity prices
- Evaluating hedging and risk management practices for derivatives
- Estimating damages in regulatory investigations