Noah Wortman Email & Phone Number

Philadelphia, Pa, Us

Greater Philadelphia , Pennsylvania, Us

I founded NRW Consulting LLC in 2018 to bring my extensive experience in assessing and analyzing corporate misconduct in the financial markets, as well as to expand my commitment to finding global litigation and shareholder engagement solutions to investors and consumers across the world.NRW Consulting supports, recommends, and creates pathways to recovery for global investors and consumers harmed by corporate misconduct, including securities fraud, market manipulation, and violations of global regulatory requirements.

London, England, Gb

Lexolent is the world’s first globally coordinated network for legal finance professionals. It provides a unique platform for Lexolent's network members and have created a marketplace where capital meets origination.

Bromley, Gb

The Global Class Actions & Mass Torts Conference by Perfect Law LTD brings together over 200 of the foremost preeminent practitioners, judges, academics, funders, experts, service providers and industry supporters in the class actions and mass torts space from the US, Canada, the UK, Israel, Australia, and across Europe.

The Collective Redress Lawyers Association (“CORLA”) is dedicated to safeguarding and enhancing access to justice for claimants who have been harmed by wrongful conduct and who are seeking to vindicate their rights on a collective basis.CORLA believes that group litigation is an effective means of providing claimants with access to justice, but that the current regime and practice is in need of improvement and reform. CORLA provides a forum to gather together specialist legal practitioners in the field of collective redress in order to advocate for this reform. It also facilitates dialogue and the sharing of best practice among the broad range of those involved in claimant-side group litigation, including civil society, consumer rights groups, academics and funders. It will develop training and knowledge sharing in the field of collective redress and will organise specialist events on the issues faced by practitioners.

London, Gb

Pogust Goodhead is a global law firm passionate about championing justice for the victims of wrongdoing by big corporations.Headquartered in London, Pogust Goodhead comprises more than 100 experienced lawyers in offices across the UK, USA, Brazil and the Netherlands. Our team represent clients globally in cases relating to securities and shareholder rights, competition and cartel claims, environmental disasters, data and privacy breaches, consumer rights and many other forms of global collective redress. We help people take on the world’s largest corporations and support them every step of the way to make sure they receive the justice they deserve.As fierce advocates for environmental and social justice as well as corporate governance reform, we find solutions where others can’t. We fight for justice when others won’t.

London, Gb

The ICGN Global Stewardship Committee is focused on fiduciary duties, shareholder rights, shareholder meetings, company monitoring, voting engagement and investment mandates.The International Corporate Governance Network (ICGN) was established in 1995 as an investor-led organization. The ICGN's mission is to promote effective standards of corporate governance and investor stewardship to advance efficient markets and sustainable economies worldwide. Its policy positions are guided by the ICGN Global Governance Principles and Global Stewardship Principles, which are implemented by: - Influencing policy by providing a reliable source of investor opinion on governance and stewardship; - Connecting peers at global events to enhance dialogue between companies and investors around long term value creation; and - Informing dialogue through education to enhance the professionalism of governance and stewardship practices.

London, Gb

The ICGN's Shareholder Responsibilities Committee ("SHREC") is active in influencing international policy developments regarding the stewardship responsibilities of shareholders. In particular, current areas of focus include: (1) ICGN guidance on institutional investor responsibilities; and (2) model mandate terms setting out a contractual template between asset owners and asset managers.

Schiphol, North Holland, Nl

As Senior Manager, Collective Redress at Omni Bridgeway, I continued to leverage my experience advocating for investors worldwide, promoting corporate governance and investor stewardship, and implementing strategies to achieve collective redress. I strived to provide access to justice for global institutional investors (including financial institutions, superannuation, sovereign wealth, and pension funds) and others via litigation funding strategies and teaming with highly qualified colleagues, counsel, experts and advisers across a myriad of areas and across the globe. These include global shareholder litigation (class/group, opt-out/direct and opt-in), antitrust/competition/cartel litigation, complex financial or commercial litigation, global privacy/data breach litigation, and global patent litigation.Omni Bridgeway is a global leader in dispute resolution finance, with expertise in civil and common law legal and recovery systems, and operations spanning Asia, Australia, Canada, Europe, the Middle East, the UK and the US. Omni Bridgeway offers dispute finance from case inception through to post-judgment enforcement and recovery. Since 1986 it has established a proud record of funding disputes and enforcement proceedings around the world. Omni Bridgeway is listed on the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX:OBL) and includes the leading dispute funders formerly known as IMF Bentham Limited, Bentham IMF and ROLAND ProzessFinanz.

Schiphol, North Holland, Nl

I joined Omni Bridgeway in July 2018 as Business Development Manager (Global Investor Recoveries) to leverage my extensive experience advocating for global investors, promoting corporate governance, and implementing strategies to achieve collective redress.I split my time between Philadelphia and London with a global remit covering North America, the UK and Europe, Australia and Asia. I am responsible for account management with Omni Bridgeway’s international network of institutional investors (including financial institutions, superannuation, sovereign wealth, and pension funds) to recover their investment losses, for example, through shareholder or bondholder class/group actions.Omni Bridgeway is a global leader in dispute resolution finance, with expertise in civil and common law legal and recovery systems, and operations spanning Asia, Australia, Canada, Europe, the Middle East, the UK and the US. Omni Bridgeway offers dispute finance from case inception through to post-judgment enforcement and recovery. Since 1986 it has established a proud record of funding disputes and enforcement proceedings around the world. Omni Bridgeway is listed on the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX:OBL) and includes the leading dispute funders formerly known as IMF Bentham Limited, Bentham IMF and ROLAND ProzessFinanz.

Washington, Dc, Us

Appointed as member of CII's Markets Advisory Council for 2020 and again for 2021. The Markets Advisory Council advises the board and staff on investment, legal, financial reporting and other trends. All are representatives of Associate Member organizations.CII is a nonprofit, nonpartisan association of U.S. asset owners, primarily pension funds, state and local entities charged with investing public assets and endowments and foundations, with combined assets of $4 trillion. Our associate members include non-U.S. asset owners with more than $4 trillion in assets and a range of asset managers with more than $35 trillion in assets under management. CII is a leading voice for effective corporate governance, strong shareowner rights and vibrant, transparent and fair capital markets. CII promotes policies that enhance long-term value for U.S. institutional asset owners and their beneficiaries.

Las Vegas, Nevada, Us

The Sovereign Wealth Fund Institute's ("SWFI") Event Advisory Board provides counsel on the planning and organization of events as well as the formation of strategic partnerships. The board helps foster a global institutional investor community through shaping the dialogue at SWFI events and facilitating relationship building.The SWFI is a global organization designed to study sovereign wealth funds, public pensions, superannuation funds, central banks and other long-term public investors in the areas of investing, asset allocation, risk, governance, economics, policy, trade and other relevant issues. It provides specialized services such as research and consulting to various corporations, funds and governments.

West Sussex, Gb

I joined Goal Group in June 2013, bringing my extensive experience and expertise in assessing and analyzing potential corporate misconduct in the financial markets, as well as my commitment to finding litigation solutions for investors worldwide. I first served as Goal Group’s Director of Global Business Development and was then appointed Goal Group’s Chief Operating Officer, Americas in December 2014. In October 2016, I was appointed as Managing Director, Americas and as Goal Group’s Global Head of Class Action Services. I was responsible for the company’s operations and strategic vision in the Americas, and also led the company’s worldwide initiatives in securities and antitrust class action litigation services on behalf of it global institutional investor clientele.Additionally, I participated in several shareholder advocacy and corporate governance organizations and have addressed audiences globally on the topics of shareholder legal redress, recovery, rights and responsibilities.With headquarters in London and offices in Philadelphia, New York, San Francisco, Melbourne and Hong Kong, Goal Group is the leading class action claims recovery and international tax reclamation services specialist. We have a truly blue-chip client base including many of the world's largest global custodians, asset managers, private banks, pension funds, local government authorities, hedge funds, investment banks, prime brokers and fund managers spread widely across the Americas, EMEA and Asia Pacific. We monitor client assets with a total value in excess of £8 trillion.

West Sussex, Gb

I joined Goal Group in 2013 and now serve as Chief Operating Officer, Americas, responsible for implementing the Company’s strategic vision in the Americas.Additionally, I participate in several shareholder advocacy and corporate governance organizations and have addressed audiences globally on the topics of shareholder legal redress, recovery, rights and responsibilities.

West Sussex, Gb

With headquarters in London and offices in Philadelphia, New York, San Francisco, Melbourne and Hong Kong, Goal Group is the leading class actions and tax reclamation services specialist. We have a truly blue-chip client base including many of the world's largest global custodians, asset managers, private banks, pension funds, local government authorities, hedge funds, investment banks, prime brokers and fund managers spread widely across the Americas, EMEA and Asia Pacific. We monitor client assets with a total value in excess of £8 trillion.As Director of Global Business Development at Goal Group, I continue to develop opportunities, liaise and collaborate with law firms worldwide for Goal Group's institutional investor clientele regarding their global options in securities class action litigation, opt-out and opt-in actions, direct and group actions, shareholder derivative actions, and competition and antitrust litigation.

London, Gb

Part of team that established the Investor Protection Litigation department (n/k/a Securities Litigation department) for London-based Stewarts Law. Responsibilities included identifying, researching, developing, marketing and initiating shareholder class actions arising from possible breaches of fiduciary duties and violations of the federal securities laws. Additionally, research, identify and recommend lead plaintiff opportunities for the firm’s European clients in pending securities class actions.Integral member of firm’s institutional investor client development team. Closely work with senior partners in London office towards development and retention of institutional investor clients. Regularly direct and assist international investor clients in analysis of transactional data to determine eligibility in class action and/or opt-out litigation. Additionally, work with certain of the firm’s referral counsel in the development of American institutional investor participation in possible litigation in the U.K. and Europe.Also, drafted summaries and memoranda to aid firm in advising and pitching litigation strategy to institutional investor clients.Regularly consulted by attorneys in firm’s Competition Litigation department regarding research and discussion of parallel American litigation. Also, consulted by U.K. attorneys regarding issues of American legal or general research.Develop and maintain extensive network of relationships with outside counsel to formulate case ideas, bring new matters, and forge co-counsel relationships.

Wilmington, Delaware, Us

Responsibilities included identification, research and initiation of shareholder class action lawsuits arising from possible breaches of fiduciary duties by boards of directors in M&A transactions and also violations of the federal securities laws, including cases brought under the PSLRA and “proprietary” shareholder derivative actions. Representative matters included: In re Chiquita Brands Int’l, Inc. Alien Tort Statute and S’holder Derivative Litig. (Plaintiffs alleged that Chiquita repeatedly and systematically violated federal law prohibiting transactions with recognized global terrorist organizations. Among other things, the settlement provided substantial and important corporate governance reforms relating to Chiquita's board oversight and management of compliance with federal law involving Chiquita’s overseas business.); Manville Personal Injury Trust v. Blankenship (shareholder derivative action brought on behalf of Massey Energy Co. against its board and certain of its officers for breach of fiduciary duties arising from alleged conscious failures to cause Massey not to comply with applicable environmental and worker-safety laws and regulations; and In re Evergreen Ultra Short Opportunities Fund Sec. Litig. (securities class action alleging violations of the Securities Act of 1933 and settled for $25 million in December 2012).Instrumental in the initiation of firm’s marketing and client development program. Drafted and issued press releases alerting shareholders of firm’s investigations of M&A transactions and potential securities fraud. Acted as first contact for shareholders responding to press releases and was primary person responsible for retention of firm’s individual shareholder clients. Maintained relationships with firm’s individual shareholder clients from pre-filing through settlement, including, but not limited to, explanation of all phases of litigation process, case update conference calls, and analysis of clients’ securities transactions.

Puerto Rico, Us

Integral member of the Delaware office’s case starting and potential new matter department. Identified and researched possible securities fraud in the financial markets for potential shareholder litigation. Also drafted various research memos and assisted in the drafting of briefing for class action litigation pending in the Delaware Court of Chancery and other state and federal courts nationwide.

Radnor, Pa, Us

Securities Fraud Class Actions and Lead Plaintiff Jurisprudence - Drafted lead plaintiff motions, supporting memoranda and pleadings filed in federal courts nationwide; worked closely with co-counsel in multiple jurisdictions regarding pending lead plaintiff applications; and analyzed competing lead plaintiff applications. Oversaw and analyzed individual and institutional clients’, domestic and foreign, trading histories, including preparation and calculation of clients’ financial losses in securities trading on worldwide stock exchanges. Worked closely with Business Development Department to develop firm’s proprietary institutional client portfolio monitoring program.

New York, Ny, Us

Complex Mass Torts and Insurance Litigation - Assisted in representation of major insurance company in defense of lead paint litigation in New York City area.

Securities Fraud Class Actions, Shareholder Derivative Lawsuits and Consumer Fraud -Drafted pleadings and correspondence; met with and worked closely with witnesses, experts and co-counsel; conducted extensive document review in multiple cases; assisted with preparations and taking/defending depositions; conducted online and library legal research; and coordinated with counsel in potential new matter development.

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