Fainna Kagan

Fainna Kagan is an associate at the firm’s New York office, where she focuses on complex securities fraud cases brought on behalf of institutional and individual investors.

Ms. Kagan received her Bachelor of Arts in Psychology from UCLA and her Juris Doctor from Brooklyn Law School. While attending Brooklyn Law School, Ms. Kagan worked as a summer associate at the Firm and interned at the New York Stock Exchange, the New York County District Attorney’s Office and the Kings County District Attorney’s Office.

Since joining the firm, Ms. Kagan has served on the team that successfully litigated Hall v. The Children's Place Retail Stores, Inc., No. 07-cv-08252 (S.D.N.Y.), which recently settled for $12 million. Currently, Ms. Kagan is actively involved in several federal securities class actions, including Plumbers and Pipefitters Local Union No. 630 Pension-Annuity Trust Fund v. Arbitron, Inc., No. 08-cv-04063 (S.D.N.Y.); Seidel v. Noah Education Holdings, Ltd., No. 08-cv-09203 (S.D.N.Y.); Citiline Holdings, Inc. v. iStar Financial Inc., No. 08-cv-03612 (S.D.N.Y.); Alaska Laborers Employers Retirement Fund v. Scholastic Corp., No. 07-cv-07402 (S.D.N.Y.); and Plumbers & Steamfitters Local 773 Pension Fund v. Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce, No. 08-cv-08143 (S.D.N.Y.).

Ms. Kagan’s published works include: Circuit Endorses Fact-Specific Approach to Materiality, N.Y.L.J. (March 26, 2009); Meaning of Second Circuit’s “W.R. Huff” for Investment Advisors, N.Y.L.J. (January 30, 2009); Back to “Novak”: Confidential Witnesses in Fraud Actions, N.Y.L.J. (October, 20, 2008); “Oscar”: Misinterpretation of Fraud-on-the-Market-Theory, N.Y.L.J. (July 17, 2008); “Tellabs” and SDNY: Plaintiff’s Perspective, N.Y.L.J. (March 25, 2008); and Collateralized Debt Obligations: Burden Is on Defendants, N.Y.L.J. (January 25, 2008).