Lydia Ferrarese
Lydia Ferrarese is an associate at Grant & Eisenhofer, where she focuses on securities litigation on behalf of institutional investors. Ms. Ferrarese has represented sophisticated institutional investors in high-profile international securities fraud class action, In re Parmalat Securities Litigation, and her efforts contributed to the firm’s successful settlement against financial institutions and Parmalat in that case.
Prior to joining Grant & Eisenhofer, Ms. Ferrarese (who received her initial law degree in Italy) served as a visiting attorney with several prominent law firms in New York, Boston and Los Angeles. She was also an Associate at international law firms in Milano and Bologna, Italy. Ms. Ferrarese drafted numerous agreements and opinions on corporate issues for major Italian and multi-national corporations, focusing on Mergers and Acquisitions.
Ms. Ferrarese received her LL.M. in Corporate, Banking and Finance Law at Fordham University School of Law in New York City, and her J.D. equivalent from the University of Bologna, Italy in 1993. She was a contributing writer and editor of the “Guide for the Italian Importer to the United States” by Michael Doland, 2000, and editor of the articles, “Dissolution of a Corporation and Minority Shareholders’ Rights” Le Societa’, Ipsoa, May 2001 and “Rules on class actions: Comparative Analysis between the Italian Law and the U.S. Law,”
La Responsabilita’ Civile, Utet, August 2008.