Kristin M. Feitzinger

Kristin Feitzinger serves as chair of the board of Cornerstone Research. Ms. Feitzinger formerly coheaded the firm’s securities litigation practice, served for many years as head of the Silicon Valley office, and is an experienced member of Cornerstone Research’s board of directors. She has more than three decades of experience addressing securities and valuation issues arising in class actions, breach of contract, and general damages litigation.

Ms. Feitzinger’s experience spans a broad set of industries and all stages of the litigation process, including exposure analysis and settlement estimation; class certification; expert reports and depositions; summary judgment filings; and mediation, arbitration, trials, and regulatory agency hearings. She frequently speaks on issues related to securities class and regulatory actions.

Securities and white collar

A seasoned expert in securities litigation, Ms. Feitzinger has consulted on hundreds of securities cases, including a trial in JDS Uniphase, which resulted in a complete victory for the defendants. She leads large teams to address all aspects of securities litigation, directing research related to class certification, loss causation, materiality (value relevance), and damages issues.

Ms. Feitzinger’s case experience includes a class certification victory for the defense in In re FibroGen Inc. Securities Litigation, as well as summary judgment rulings in Murphy et al. v. Precision Castparts Corp. et al. and In re Cloudera Inc. Securities Litigation. Ms. Feitzinger also consults on Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) matters, analyzing issues such as materiality, loss causation, and damages measures.

Valuation

In addition to her securities expertise, Ms. Feitzinger provides valuation analyses in the context of breach of contract claims, initial public offerings, and merger and acquisition (M&A) deals. She has experience with applying discounted cash flow (DCF), comparable company, and transaction valuation methodologies, among others.

Ms. Feitzinger’s valuation expertise includes assessing the reliability of valuation methodologies and conclusions, analyzing the impact of acquisition-related news on stock prices, and evaluating control premia.

Financial institutions and real estate

Ms. Feitzinger has also addressed a range of financial institutions and real estate matters, including trials involving the Glendale Federal Bank breach of contract case. She has applied her financial expertise to dozens of mortgage-backed securities matters and has addressed issues stemming from the regional banking crisis.