Chuck Dender

Whistleblower, Qui Tam, and False Claims Act representations:

• State of Illinois ex rel. Edelweiss Fund LLC v. Bank of America Capital Corp., et al., 2017L0289 (Ill. Cir. Ct. Cook Cty.), Co-Counsel for Relator (False Claims Act qui tam—fraud involving municipal bond interest rates).
• State of New York ex rel. Edelweiss Fund LLC v. JPMorgan Chase & Co., et al., 100559/2014 (Sup. Ct. New York), Co-Counsel for Relator (False Claims Act qui tam—fraud involving municipal bond interest rates).
• State of California ex rel. Edelweiss Fund LLC v. JPMorgan Chase & Co., et al., No. CGC-14-540777 (Sup. Ct. S.F.), Co-Counsel for Relator (False Claims Act qui tam—fraud involving municipal bond interest rates).
• State of New Jersey ex rel. Edelweiss Fund LLC v. JPMorgan Chase & Co., et al., No. L-885-15 (Sup. Ct. Mercer Cty.), Co-Counsel for Relator (False Claims Act qui tam—fraud involving municipal bond interest rates).
• United States ex rel. Gill v. CVS Health Corp., 18-cv-6494 (SCS/JC) (N.D. Ill.), Co-Counsel for Relator (False Claims Act qui tam—Medicare fraud).
• Represents numerous whistleblowers who were able to detail and quantify the target companies’ financial, accounting, and public disclosure violations in their submissions to, and resulting participation with, the S.E.C. and C.F.T.C.
• Represented a whistleblower and a cooperating witness in an SEC whistleblower action that resulted in a $6,000,000 settlement with a major technology company for violations of the antifraud provisions of Section 17(a)(2) and (3) of the Securities Act of 1933, as well as certain reporting provisions of the federal securities laws. The violations stemmed from the company’s alleged improper inventory management (channel stuffing and grey marketing) and resulting fraudulent revenue recognition practices.
• Represented a whistleblower in an SEC whistleblower action that resulted in a $5,000,000 settlement with a major alcohol producer for violations of the antifraud provisions of Section 17(a)(2) and (3) of the Securities Act of 1933, as well as certain reporting provisions of the federal securities laws. The violations stemmed from the company’s alleged improper inventory management (channel stuffing) and resulting fraudulent revenue recognition practices.

Securities and Financial Services Litigation:

• Represented the Special Litigation Committee of a Fortune 100 company in the Committee’s investigation into a long-running revenue recognition scheme that resulted in numerous material misstatements that were intentionally disseminated to the financial markets and investing public.
• Analyzed and presented the legal and economic damages stemming from the collapse of Lehman Brothers Holdings, Inc. and the asserted value of certain disputed complex derivatives, SWAPS and SWAPtions on behalf of one of the world’s largest financial institutions,
• Represented numerous broker-dealers, funds, and funds-of-funds in litigation, S.E.C. investigations, FINRA actions, SROs, and internal investigations.

Class Actions and Toxic Tort representations:

• Represented approximately 1,600 coal miners in a long-running toxic tort litigation against major international chemical manufacturers, for the manufacturers’ failure to warn about the dangers of isocyanate exposure.

Editor-in-Chief, Cornell International Law Journal

• Wait, wait . . . It Goes to the Weight! A Review of the Damages Considerations in Manpower, Inc. v. Insurance Company of the State of Pennsylvania. Stout, Risius, Ross, 2014 Spring Journal,
• The Practitioner’s Guide to the Sarbanes-Oxley Act. (John J. Huber, et al, eds. Vol.2, 2004) (Co-authored Chapter 3 entitled “Hedge Fund Regulation.”)

Bar Admissions

• New York

Court Admissions

• U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York
• U.S. District Court, Eastern District of New York