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Consumer Fraud
Antitrust
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EDUCATION

  • The University at Albany, SUNY (B.A. magna cum laude, 1988)
  • Columbia Law School (J.D. 1991)

ADMISSIONS

  • New York State Bar
  • United States District Courts for the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York
  • United States Courts of Appeals for the Second, Third, Fourth, Fifth, Eighth, and Ninth Circuits
  • The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, First Judicial Department
  • The United States Supreme Court
Daniel Hume
Managing Partner
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  • 10 Kirby McInerney Attorneys recognized on 2022 Super Lawyers and Rising Stars Lists
    10/07/2022

    Thomson Reuters’ Super Lawyers has recognized five KM attorneys as New York Metro Super Lawyers and five as Rising Stars.

  • Kirby McInerney Achieves 3rd Circuit Victory Reviving State-Law Fraud Claims in Merck Opt-Outs
    09/12/2019 | Law360

    The Third Circuit on Thursday revived fraud claims brought under state law by investors that opted out of class actions involving Merck & Co. Inc.’s statements about cholesterol drugs. 

  • Kirby McInerney LLP Announces $20,000,000 Settlement of Singapore Pinnacle Notes Litigation with Morgan Stanley
    11/14/2014

    Kirby McInerney, representing a class of plaintiffs, filed papers today with United States District Judge Jesse M. Furman of the Southern District of New York seeking preliminary approval of a settlement in the case Ge Dandong et al v. Pinnacle Performance Limited et al.

  • Morgan Stanley, Investors Settle Dispute Over ‘Rigged’ Notes 
    11/12/2014 | Law360

    Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC has reached a settlement with a putative class of investors suing over $139 million in allegedly defective mortgage-backed securities, it told a New York federal judge, and expects to hand in the deal on Friday.

  • Kirby McInerney Profiled in Law360’s Most Feared Plaintiffs Firms List
    10/10/2013 | Law360

    Powered by a hard-hitting securities practice that took in nearly a billion dollars for its clients last year, Kirby McInerney LLP has recently racked up an impressive series of wins, including the landmark $590 million settlement of a securities class action targeting Citigroup Inc., earning it a spot on Law360’s Most Feared Plaintiffs Firms list.

  • 2d Cir. To Hear Case of Investors Who Trumped Morrison
    01/27/2012 | Reuters

    You have to give the lawyers at Kirby McInerney a lot of credit. In a case called Dandong v. Pinnacle Performance, they represent a group of Singapore investors who bought complex notes issued by a Cayman Islands-based Morgan Stanley vehicle that sold the Singapore-registered securities only in Singapore, under a contract that called for disputes to be litigated in Singapore.

  • Investor Suit Against Morgan Stanley Moves Ahead
    01/26/2012 | The Singapore Business Times

    Discovery proceedings have finally started more than a year after a group of Singapore investors sued Morgan Stanley for allegedly selling rigged Pinnacle Notes as ​‘safe, conservative​’ investments.

  • Burnt S’pore Investors Get Their Day in US Sun
    11/03/2011 | The Singapore Business Times

    A group of Singapore investors of Morgan Stanley’s failed Pinnacle Notes have scored a major legal victory after a US federal judge ruled that their class action lawsuit can proceed in New York.

  • Morgan Stanley Must Face Lawsuit Over Failed Debt
    11/03/2011 | Reuters

    A federal judge ordered Morgan Stanley to defend against a lawsuit by Singapore investors that accused it of selling them risky debt that was designed to fail.

  • Morgan Stanley Wants Sing-a-poor to Disappear
    04/21/2011 | New York Post

    Morgan Stanley is trying hard to keep a potentially embarrassing lawsuit, filed on behalf of a group of Singapore investors, from being heard in the US. The investors — regular folks who risked their pension money — are claiming they were cheated out of $158 million when Morgan Stanley created a security filled with collateralized debt obligations (CDOs) that they allege was designed to go broke and benefit the company.