Prithvi Hingorani consults on commercial litigation and corporate and regulatory investigations. Mr. Hingorani specializes in matters involving corporate governance, financial institutions, and securities. He supports clients and experts through all phases of litigation.
Mr. Hingorani’s experience includes:
Corporate governance
- Evaluating processes used to prepare public disclosures such as quarterly and annual Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) filings, press releases, and earnings calls, among others
- In The Hertz Corporation et al. v. Frissora et al., assessing the compensation committee’s process in deciding to claw back a former CEO’s compensation
- Analyzing corporate separateness and successor liability issues in a Chapter 11 bankruptcy matter
Financial institutions
- Analyzing alleged mispricing and manipulation of net asset values (NAVs) of mutual funds and exchange-traded funds (ETFs)
- Assessing competition, fees, performance, and services in Section 36(b) mutual fund excessive fee matters
- Valuing carried interest in private equity funds
- Evaluating a private equity management company’s cash flows
- Analyzing monoline insurers’ investments in insured bonds, reinsurance transactions, and reinsurance commutation payments
- Assessing a monoline insurer’s models used to forecast losses related to residential mortgage-backed securities (RMBS)
Securities
- Evaluating class certification issues, including market efficiency and tracing; loss causation and negative causation; disclosure process; and damages in Section 10(b) and Section 11 shareholder lawsuits
- Estimating damages in a dispute related to the valuation of convertible preferred stock
- Analyzing loan performance and damages in litigation involving securitized mortgages