Gary E. Cantor

Gary E. Cantor is a shareholder in the Securities practice group at Berger & Montague.  He concentrates his practice on complex securities litigation and securities valuations.

Mr. Cantor served as co-lead counsel in Steiner v. Phillips, et al. (Southmark Securities), Consolidated C.A. No. 3-89-1387-X (N.D. Tex.), (class settlement of $82.5 million), and In re Kenbee Limited Partnerships Litigation, Civil Action No. 91-2174 (GEB), (class settlement involving 119 separate limited partnerships resulting in cash settlement, oversight of partnership governance and debt restructuring (with as much as $100 million in wrap mortgage reductions.))

In recent years, Mr. Cantor played a leadership role in: In re KLA-Tencor Corp. Securities Litigation, Master File No. C-06-04065-CRB (N.D. Cal.) ($65 million class settlement); In re Sepracor Inc. Securities Litigation, Civil Action no. 02-12235-MEL (D. Mass.) ($52.5 million settlement.)  In re Sotheby's Holding, Inc. Securities Litigation, No. 00 Civ. 1041 (DLC) (S.D.N.Y.) ($70 million class settlement); He was also actively involved in the Merrill Lynch Securities Litigation (class settlement of $475 million) and Waste Management Securities Litigation (class settlement of $220 million).

For over 15 years, Mr. Cantor has also concentrated on securities valuations and the preparation of event or damage studies or the supervision of outside damage experts for many of the firm's securities cases.  Mr. Cantor's work in this regard has focused on statistical analysis of securities trading patterns and pricing for determining materiality, loss causation and damages as well as aggregate trading models to determine class-wide damages.

Mr. Cantor was a member of the Moot Court Board at University of Pennsylvania Law School where he authored a comment on computer-generated evidence in the University of Pennsylvania Law Review. He graduated from Rutgers College with highest distinction in economics and was a member of Phi Beta Kappa.