Shannon L. Hopkins

Shannon L. Hopkins is a partner of the Firm. Ms. Hopkins manages the Firm’s Connecticut office. She was selected in 2013 as a New York “Super Lawyer” by Thomson Reuters.

For more than a decade Ms. Hopkins has been prosecuting a wide-range of complex class action matters in securities fraud, mergers and acquisitions, and consumer fraud litigation on behalf of individuals and large institutional clients. Ms. Hopkins has played a lead role in numerous shareholder securities fraud and merger and acquisition matters and has been involved in recovering multi-million-dollar settlements on behalf of shareholders, including:

• In re Force Protection, Inc. S’holder Litig., C.A. No. A-11-651336-B (D. Nev. 2015), $11 million shareholder recovery
• Craig Telke v. New Frontier Media, Inc., C.A. No. 1:12-cv-02941-JLK (D. Co. 2015), $2.25 million shareholder recovery
• Shona Investments v. Callisto Pharmaceuticals, Inc., C.A. No. 652783/2012 (NY Sup. Ct. 2015), shareholder recovery of $2.5 million and increase in exchange ratio from 0.1700 to 0.1799
• E-Trade Financial Corp. Securities Litig., No. 07-cv-8538 (S.D.N.Y. 2007) ($79 million recovery for the shareholder class)
• In re Cogent, Inc. S’holder Litig., (Del. Ch. 2010)($1.9 million shareholder recovery and corrective disclosures relating to the Merger).
• In re CMS Energy Sec. Litig., Civil No. 02 CV 72004 (GCS) (E.D. Mich. Sept. 6, 2007) ($200 million recovery)
• In re Sears, Roebuck and Co. Sec. Litig., No. 02-cv-07527 (N.D. Ill. Jan. 8, 2007) ($200 million recovery)
• In re El Paso Electric Co. Sec. Litig., Civil Action No. 3:03-cv-00004-DB (W.D. Tex. Sept. 15, 2005) ($10 million recovery)
• In re Novastar Fin. Sec. Litig., 4:04-cv-00330-ODS (W.D. Missouri Apr. 14, 2009) ($7.25 million recovery)

The quality of Ms. Hopkins work has been noted by courts. For example, in In re Health Grades, Inc. Shareholder Litig., C.A. No. 5716-VCS, in which Ms. Hopkins was significantly involved with the briefing of the preliminary injunction motion, then Vice Chancellor Strine “applaud[ed]” co-lead counsel for their preparation and the extraordinary high-quality of the briefing.

In addition to her legal practice, Ms. Hopkins is a Certified Public Accountant (1998 Massachusetts). Prior to becoming an attorney, Ms. Hopkins was a senior auditor with PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, where she led audit engagements for large publicly held companies in a variety of industries.