Darren Robbins Email & Phone Number

Darren Robbins is a founding partner of Robbins Geller Rudman & Dowd LLP. Over the last two decades, he has served as lead counsel in more than 100 securities class actions and has recovered billions of dollars for injured shareholders.Robbins served as lead counsel in In re Am. Realty Capital Props., Inc. Litig., a case arising out of ARCP’s manipulative accounting practices, and obtained a $1.025 billion recovery. For five years, he and the litigation team prosecuted nine different claims for violations of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and the Securities Act of 1933, involving seven different stock or debt offerings and two mergers. The recovery represents the highest percentage of damages of any major PSLRA case prior to trial and includes the largest personal contributions by individual defendants in history.Robbins has also obtained significant recoveries in a number of actions arising out of wrongdoing related to the issuance of residential mortgage-backed securities, including a case against Goldman Sachs ($272 million recovery). He also served as co-lead counsel in In re Wachovia Preferred Securities & Bond/Notes Litig., one of the largest credit-crisis settlements involving Securities Act claims ($627 million recovery). Robbins also served as lead counsel in Schuh v. HCA Holdings, Inc. ($215 million recovery).One of the hallmarks of Robbins’ practice has been his focus on corporate governance reform. For example, in UnitedHealth, a securities fraud class action arising out of an options backdating scandal, he obtained the cancellation of more than 3.6 million stock options held by the company’s former CEO and secured a record $925 million cash recovery for shareholders.Robbins is a frequent speaker at conferences and seminars around the world. He also advises institutional investors all over the world on issues related to securities litigation, corporate governance, and investor activism.

Listed skills include Securities Litigation, Securities, Class Actions, Trials, and 10 others.

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  Partner

  Robbins Geller Rudman & Dowd Llp

  May 2004 - Present