Julia Alonzo

Julia Alonzo is a senior counsel in the Litigation Department with a focus on securities and corporate governance litigation. She is experienced in complex securities and white collar litigation matters, including federal securities class actions, derivative lawsuits, internal investigations and federal white collar defense.

Julia maintains an active pro bono practice, with a focus on immigration law, asylum and child welfare issues. In addition, she sits on the associate board of the Brooklyn Defender Services Family Defense Practice, which aims to provide interdisciplinary representation to low-income parents in Brooklyn Family Court.

Firm/Organization: Proskauer Rose LLP

Blogs: Corporate Defense and Disputes, Minding Your Business

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Corporate Defense and Disputes

Ninth Circuit Rejects Adverse-Interest Exception in Fraud-on-the Market Securities Class Actions

By Jonathan Richman & Julia Alonzo

October 27, 2015

Last week, the Ninth Circuit issued a decision that could affect analyses of corporate scienter in securities class actions. The court reversed the dismissal of In re ChinaCast Education Corporation Securities Litigation and held that a malfeasant executive’s knowledge could be imputed to his or her company when the executive acted with apparent authority. The court also observed that, “as a practical matter,” the adverse-interest exception presumptively does not apply in fraud-on-the-market securities class actions.…

Corporate Defense and Disputes

Southern District of Florida Case Challenging Bylaw Requiring Minimum Stake to Sue Dismissed

By Jonathan Richman & Julia Alonzo

October 26, 2015

As we have previously discussed, there has been a growing trend of corporations’ adopting various types of bylaws to define the bounds of shareholder litigation. These include forum-selection bylaws (see here) and fee-shifting bylaws (now prohibited in Delaware for stock corporations as discussed here). A novel approach, utilized by at least three Florida corporations, is a minimum-stake-to-sue bylaw that requires shareholders to hold a certain minimum percentage of a company’s outstanding shares to…

Corporate Defense and Disputes

Demand Futility in Delaware Derivative Actions

By Sarah Gold, Richard Spinogatti, Tanya Dmitronow & Julia Alonzo

October 8, 2014

Introduction written by Tanya Dmitronow and Julia Pizzi. Full analysis written by Sarah Gold and Richard Spinogatti. Although they often involve overlapping issues, shareholder derivative lawsuits are fundamentally different from securities class actions. While the object of a securities class action is to hold the company (and, perhaps, its directors and officers) liable for harming investors and obtain money from the company (or others) as a result, a derivative action seeks relief for the company by asserting the company’s own claim against its…

Corporate Defense and Disputes

Of Wolf Packs, Plans and Pills: Making Puppies Out of Predators

By Ralph Ferrara & Julia Alonzo

September 22, 2014

Remember corporate raiders, green-mailers, and sharks? They have all moved up town and been embraced by ISS and its institutional investor clients as shareholder activists committed to corporate ‘‘reform.’’ Cheap capital and the expanded use of derivatives to accumulate enormous equity positions both quickly and quietly have fueled a binge that has more than tripled activist campaigns over the past four years. Poor governance ‘‘scores’’ are used to threaten board tenure, executive compensation scheme s,…

Julia Alonzo

Ninth Circuit Rejects Adverse-Interest Exception in Fraud-on-the Market Securities Class Actions

Southern District of Florida Case Challenging Bylaw Requiring Minimum Stake to Sue Dismissed

Demand Futility in Delaware Derivative Actions

Of Wolf Packs, Plans and Pills: Making Puppies Out of Predators

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