Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2019
Abstract
In 2010, Morrison v. National Australia Bank Ltd. destabilized the world of securities litigation by denying those who purchased their securities outside the U.S. the ability to sue in the U.S. (as they had previously often done). Nature, however abhors a vacuum, and practitioners and other jurisdictions began to seek ways to regain access to U.S. courts. Several techniques have emerged: (1) expanding settlement classes so that they are broader than litigation classes and treating the location of the transaction as strictly a merits issue that defendants could waive; (2) adopting U.S. law as applicable to securities issued abroad by cross-listed companies (as Israel has done);(3)use of the Netherland’s WCAM statute to effect a global resolution of a settlement class; and (4) coordination between the courts in both jurisdictions in the case of a cross-listed stock. On the horizon is still a more ambitious technique: use of supplemental jurisdiction to permit a class of foreign claimants to be combined with a class of U.S. claimants. Early decisions have divided on this technique. This article suggests guidelines for courts to follow in whether to allow foreign claimants in securities actions to re-enter the U.S.
Disciplines
Comparative and Foreign Law | Dispute Resolution and Arbitration | Law | Securities Law
Recommended Citation
John C. Coffee Jr.,
Global Settlements: Promise and Peril,
22
U. Pa. J. Bus. L
1
(2019).
Available at:
https://scholarship.law.columbia.edu/faculty_scholarship/2292
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Comparative and Foreign Law Commons, Dispute Resolution and Arbitration Commons, Securities Law Commons
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