Replies to post #24736 on China MediaExpress Holdings, Inc. (fka CCME)

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The Firm on CCME side:


Securities Fraud Lawyer

Shapiro Haber & Urmy LLP has a well-deserved and hard-earned national reputation for vigorously and successfully vindicating the rights of shareholders and other investors in securities class actions and derivative actions, and obtaining multimillion dollar jury verdicts, arbitration awards and settlements.

Shapiro Haber & Urmy LLP's experience and work as securities litigators has been highly praised by the courts before which they practice:

•Shapiro Haber & Urmy LLP “comes with a wealth of experience and skill in prosecuting class actions.” U.S. West, Inc. v. MacAllister. (D. Colo.).
•“The high quality of representation provided by [Shapiro Haber & Urmy LLP] is evident from the extensive record of this case.” In re Merrill Lynch & Co., Inc. Research Reports Securities Litigation. (S.D.N.Y.).
•Shapiro Haber & Urmy LLP is “highly qualified both generally, and in the specific context of private class actions under the Federal securities laws.” Coopersmith v. Lehman Brothers, Inc. (D. Mass.).
•Shapiro Haber & Urmy LLP is “highly qualified to act as lead counsel for the Class” and “has extensive experience in prosecuting class actions, including as lead counsel.” United States Trust Co. of New York v. Albert. (S.D.N.Y.).
Shapiro Haber & Urmy LLP has been a leader in prosecuting claims on behalf of investors in a variety of contexts, including:

•Securities Fraud Litigation
•Shareholder Derivative Litigation
•Excessive Fee Mutual Fund Litigation
•Ponzi Scheme Litigation
•Mergers, Acquisitions and Business to Business Stock Deals
•Securities Arbitration
Securities Fraud Litigation
More than seventy years ago, in the wake of the Great Depression, Congress enacted two landmark laws to regulate the sale of securities – the Securities Act of 1933 and the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. The Federal securities laws prohibit fraudulent, deceptive, and manipulative practices in the sale of securities. Federal law also requires companies to provide complete and accurate information when a company sells securities in a public offering.

Shapiro Haber & Urmy LLP has extensive expertise championing the rights of investors who have been victimized by securities fraud. Typically, our attorneys represent classes of investors who purchased securities in the open market at prices that were artificially inflated by a company’s false and misleading statements. When the fraud is revealed, stock prices decline, and shareholders can incur significant losses. We also represent classes of investors who purchased securities in public offerings that were marketed by using a registration statement or prospectus that has incorrect, incomplete, or misleading information.

Shapiro Haber & Urmy LLP has recovered many hundreds of millions of dollars for investors. A notable case includes In re Merrill Lynch Analyst Reports Securities Litigation (S.D.N.Y.), in which Shapiro Haber & Urmy LLP served as the court-appointed co-chairman of the Plaintiffs' Executive Committee of a group of more than twenty securities class actions, arising out of false and misleading research reports by Merrill Lynch stock analysts, which settled for $125 million.

Shapiro Haber & Urmy LLP has recovered substantial settlements for defrauded shareholders by prosecuting securities class action suits on behalf of securities holders of:

•Actrade Financial Tech., Inc. ($9.9 million) (settlement approval pending)
•Bank of New England ($6.5 million)
•Bank of New England Bondholders ($8.4 million)
•Biopure Corp. ($10 million)
•Centennial Tech., Inc. (stock and cash with a value of approximately $20 million)
•Digital Equipment Corp. ($5.2 million)
•Inso Corp. ($12 million)
•Kendall Square Research Corp. (cash, stock and warrants, with a total value of approximately $17 million)
•Kurzweil Applied Intelligence, Inc. ($9.625 million)
•Lotus Dev. Corp. ($7.5 million)
•MicroCom, Inc. ($6 million)
•Minoco Oil and Gas Drilling Limited Partnerships ($15 million)
•Molten Metal Tech., Inc. ($13.16 million)
•Monarch Capital Corp. ($5 million)
•Open Environment Corp. ($6 million)
•Razorfish (against CreditSuisse First Boston) ($3 million)
•Pegasystems, Inc. ($5.25 million)
•Picturetel Corp. ($12 million)
•Winstar (againt CreditSuisse First Boston) ($8 million)
Please read more about these successful securities cases and current securities cases.

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The State St Shark - He is the man who know all the tactics since he represented the shorts many many times - the best Harvard has to offer baby - know everyone at the SEC and is loved by all at Obama SEC - fact baby (this bio does not include half his work in the last 12 years):

Thomas G. Shapiro

Education
•1965, BA, Harvard College - magna cum laude
•1969, JD, Harvard Law School - cum laude

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Tom Shapiro has 40 years of experience litigating on behalf of clients in state and federal courts. He has an AV rating from Martindale Hubbell and has been named a Massachusetts Super Lawyer numerous times, most recently in 2010. He has also been named to the national list of Super Lawyers in the Corporate Counsel Edition for securities litigation.

His practice is currently focused on securities and consumer class actions, claims against securities brokers, and business litigation. In the course of his career, his trial and appellate experience has included criminal trials ranging from murder and bank embezzlement to Selective Service (draft) cases, and civil litigation involving trials, arbitrations and appeals of civil rights claims, claims against brokers, securities fraud class actions, consumer class actions, and representation of business owners defrauded in the sale of their businesses and legal malpractice actions. Mr. Shapiro has recovered multimillion dollar verdicts in securities fraud class actions and arbitrations and secured settlements of numerous class actions.

Some of his notable achievements are:

•Obtaining a multimillion dollar jury verdict on behalf of investors in cable television partnerships for fraud and breach of fiduciary duty by the general partner
•Obtaining a multimillion dollar jury verdict on behalf of investors in a well known NYSE company for securities fraud. The verdict was reversed on appeal by a divided Court of Appeals sitting en banc.
•Recovering approximately $15 million on behalf of limited partners in oil drilling partnerships from the partnerships' general partner, independent accounting firm, outside law firm and petroleum geology consultant
•Recovering $15 million for investors from a well known New England bank that became insolvent
•Recovering over $13 million in settlements on behalf of investors in an insolvent technology company
•Recovering over $10 million in settlements with a leading New York securities firm
•Obtaining an arbitration award for more than $1 million on behalf of an investor from an investment firm
•Obtaining jury verdicts for plaintiffs in a legal malpractice action and an employment action
•Successfully representing individuals in SEC investigations for alleged insider trading
•Serving as liaison counsel for consolidated class actions arising from the TX, Inc. computer data breach, one of the largest data breaches to date. The case was settled on favorable terms for TJX customers.
Bar Admissions:
•Commonwealth of Massachusetts
•United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts
•United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
•Supreme Court of the United States
Federal Appellate Court Decisions
•United States v. Lieberman, 608 F.2d 889 (1 Cir. 1979)
•Backman v. Polaroid Corp, 910 F.2d 10 (1 Cir. 1990)
•Geffon v. Micrion Corporation, 249 F.3d 29 (1st Cir. 2001)
•Glassman v. Computervision, 90 F.3rd 617 (1st Cir 1996)
•Shaw v. Digital Equipment Corporation, 82 F.3d 1194 (1st Cir. 1996)
Teaching
•Faculty member on securities litigation panels sponsored by the Practicing Law Institute, ALI-ABA, Massachusetts Continuing Legal Education, Massachusetts Academy of Trial Attorneys and the Boston Bar Association
•Lecturer on securities litigation issues for the American Corporate Counsel Association and at a NASDAQ Financial Executive Conference for senior officers of NASDAQ companies
•Faculty of the Flaschner Judicial Institute's seminar for Massachusetts Superior Court judges on the Trial and Management of Complex Cases
Publications
•"Depositions in Class Actions" in Massachusetts Deposition Practice Manual, published by Massachusetts Continuing Legal Education, 1991
•"Securities Litigation in the Aftermath of In Re Data Access Securities," 24 New. Eng. L. Rev. 537 (1990)
Professional Associations
•Former Chairman of the Federal Practice Committee of the Massachusetts Bar Association
•Member, National Association of Securities and Commercial Attorneys?
•?Member, Massachusetts and Boston Bar Associations