Laura Kelly focuses on complex matters related to securities litigation, market manipulation, and valuation. She has supported clients and experts at all stages of litigation and regulatory investigations.
Ms. Kelly’s experience includes:
Securities
- Examining issues related to market efficiency, Comcast, price impact, loss causation, and damages in matters involving Rule 10b-5 and Section 11/12 claims
- Assessing potential damages and conducting analyses for mediation in class action and opt-out litigations
- Working on matters involving common stock, options, bonds, and American depositary receipts (ADRs)
- Analyzing issues related to tracing in the context of Section 11 claims
Market manipulation
- Analyzing money markets and interest rate derivatives data of a major financial institution in connection with Department of Justice (DOJ) and Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) investigations related to alleged LIBOR manipulation
- Analyzing trading patterns and price impact in the context of alleged foreign exchange (FX) and option manipulation
- Investigating allegations of market manipulation in physical and futures markets for various commodities, including analyzing trading and hedging strategies and price impact
Valuation
- Analyzing company and transaction valuations using discounted cash flow and multiples
- Assessing damages related to a contract dispute in the natural gas industry
- Estimating the value of certain loan guarantees for a tax dispute
- Assessing the value of employee stock options and restricted stock awards
- Evaluating deal process issues
- Analyzing financial statements and cost allocation methods to assess profitability of a business unit