Who We Are
About Grant & Eisenhofer P.A.
G&E is one of the nation’s foremost complex litigation boutiques. With a focus on prosecuting fraud, economic torts and class actions, our whistleblower lawyers have recovered over $12 billion dollars for its clients in the last five years, and has repeatedly been named on of the nation’s “Top Ten Plaintiff’s Firms” by the National Law Journal. In 2008, RiskMetrics Group cited G&E for winning the highest average investor recovery in securities class actions of any law firm in the U.S.
With offices in Delaware, New York, and Washington, DC, the firm’s resources encompass more than 150 staff members including whistleblower lawyers, analysts, researchers, and investigators. Our whistleblower attorneys include former federal and state prosecutors along with former large firm litigators and in-house counsel.
G&E serves as corporate governance and securities counsel to some of the nation’s largest state and municipal retirement systems. The firm has been lead counsel in many of the largest securities class action recoveries in U.S. history, including a $3 billion recovery against Tyco International. G&E’s multi-hundred million dollar recoveries against companies such as General Motors, Daimler Chrysler, and Royal Dutch Shell exemplify the firm’s ability to successfully litigate against the largest corporations in the world.
The Head of the G&E Whistleblower Practice
Reuben A. Guttman
A litigator with more than 25 years of experience, Reuben Guttman heads the G&E whistleblower practice. Mr. Guttman, who is a Director at Grant & Eisenhofer, has represented clients in claims brought under the False Claims Act, securities laws, the Price Anderson Act, Department of Energy (DOE) statutes and regulations, the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act (WARN), Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO) and various employment discrimination, labor and environmental statutes. He has also tried and/or litigated claims involving fraud, breach of fiduciary duty, antitrust, business interference and other common law torts.
Mr. Guttman has been counsel in some of the largest recoveries under the Federal False Claims Act, including U.S. ex rel. Johnson v. Shell Oil Co., 33 F. Supp. 2d 528 (ED Tex. 1999), where over $300 million were recovered from the oil industry. He also represented one of the six main whistleblowers in litigation resulting in the government’s September 2009, $2.3 billion settlement with Pfizer Pharmaceutical. Cases brought by Mr. Guttman under the False Claims Act on behalf of a European whistleblower resulted in a $13 million settlement with a Department of Defense contractor.
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Traci L. Buschner
Traci Buschner is a senior counsel at Grant & Eisenhofer. A former state prosecutor, Ms. Buschner has spent the last 13 years representing plaintiffs in complex litigation ranging from class actions to government contract fraud under federal and state false claims acts. She as been involved in multi-million dollar recoveries on behalf of workers under the Federal Fair Labor Standards Act and has served as counsel in False Claims actions, bringing tens of millions of dollars to the United States Government. Ms. Buschner represented one of the six main whistleblowers in False Claims Act litigation against Pfizer, Inc., which resulted in the Government’s recovery of $2.3 billion in 2009.
Ms. Buschner’s practice has involved representation of some of the nation’s largest labor unions and their members. Prior to joining Grant & Eisenhofer, she was an attorney with the Washington, DC office of one of the nation’s largest personal injury and labor firms and also practiced with an Austin, Texas firm where she spear-headed litigation on behalf of victims of asbestos exposure. Read more . . .
Peter B. Andrews
Peter Andrews is an associate at Grant & Eisenhofer. Mr. Andrews’ practice involves complex commercial litigation. Mr. Andrews represents plaintiffs in a variety of matters, including securities class actions, consumer class actions, and Fair Labor Standards Act collective actions. Mr. Andrews also represents whistleblowers in Federal False Claims Act litigation. Read more . . .
T. Talyana Bromberg
Talyana Bromberg is an associate at Grant & Eisenhofer, where she focuses her practice on complex international and national securities fraud litigation. She previously served as a partner at a prominent law firm in Riga, Latvia, where she focused on commercial litigation and arbitration, real estate and property denationalization. She also served as in-house counsel for a U.S.-Latvian joint venture in the exporting and manufacturing sector. Read more . . .
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. Read more . . .
Justin K. Victor
Justin Victor is an associate at Grant & Eisenhofer, focusing on the False Claims Act, class action litigation and antitrust.
Previously, Mr. Victor worked as a summer associate for an international law firm in Chicago, Illinois and London, England, as well as a Judicial Intern for the Honorable T. Jackson Bedford Jr., at Fulton County Superior Court in Atlanta, Georgia. Read more . . .
Jacob Kirkham
Jacob Kirkham is a staff attorney at Grant & Eisenhofer, focusing on securities, class action and false claims litigation. Mr. Kirkham is a 2011 graduate of the Emory University School of Law and a 2008 graduate from Brigham Young University with a degree in corporate finance. During law school, Mr. Kirkham interned at the Georgia Attorney General’s Office and the United States Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Georgia. Read more . . .
Shehzad F. Roopani
Shehzad Roopani is a staff attorney at Grant & Eisenhofer, focusing on False Claims Act litigation and various other complex litigation. With respect to whistleblower representation, Mr. Roopani has been involved with a variety of cases from Medicare/Medicaid Fraud to Bank Fraud. Read more . . .
