Peter W. Brueggen is a staff attorney based in our New York office focusing on securities and antitrust litigation.

• Representation of municipal issuers of Auction Rate Securities in FINRA arbitrations alleging misrepresentations by underwriters.
• Representation of investors in a mutual fund in an action brought under Section 36(b) of the Investment Company Act against the fund’s advisor, alleging breach of fiduciary duty with respect to excessive fees.
• Special fiduciary representation for the exchange-based class in In re Foreign Exchange Benchmark Rates Antitrust Litigation for a putative class of participants who traded futures and options in the FX market.  The case has already resulted in partial settlements of more than $2.3 billion.
• Representation of a whistleblower in State of New York v. Moody’s Corp., alleging millions of dollars of tax fraud for over a decade regarding domestic and international transactions through the use of a sham captive insurance company.
• Representation of a whistleblower in a qui tam action, State of New York v. Covanta Hempstead Company, alleging that a waste-energy company used improper ash disposal techniques, violative of environmental law.