Nathan W. Bear

Nathan W. Bear advises institutional investors, including Taft-Hartley funds, public and multi-employer pension funds, fund managers, insurance companies and banks on a global basis. He currently focuses on new business development.

Mr. Bear has an active role in cases that go to the heart of the current worldwide financial crisis, including Countrywide/Bank of America, Goldman Sachs and Credit Suisse, as well as numerous structured investment vehicle (SIV), collateralized debt obligation (CDO) and credit default swap (CDS) transactions and related litigation. He initiated a lawsuit against Moody’s, Standard & Poor’s and Morgan Stanley, which resulted in the first major ruling upholding fraud allegations against the credit rating agencies and a SIV arranger. He also provides counsel on issues related to “best practices” in the corporate governance of publicly traded companies around the world.

Mr. Bear earned his undergraduate degree in Political Science from the University of California at Berkeley, where he was the proud recipient of the prestigious Alumni Scholarship. Upon graduation, he joined PricewaterhouseCoopers as a management consultant, primarily advising Fortune 500 companies. During his tenure at PricewaterhouseCoopers, Mr. Bear also counseled venture-backed software companies, each of which was successfully acquired by a publicly traded corporation.

Mr. Bear earned his Juris Doctor degree from the University of San Diego School of Law, where he was the recipient of the Copley Press Scholarship and served as a judicial extern to the Honorable Richard D. Huffman of the California Court of Appeal.

Mr. Bear’s career at Robbins Geller commenced with the litigation of complex securities fraud class actions. He served on the team that successfully litigated In re Cardinal Health, Inc. Sec. Litig., No. C2-04-00575 (ALM) (S.D. Ohio). At the time, the $600 million settlement in Cardinal Health was the tenth-largest settlement in the history of securities fraud litigation and remains the largest recovery in a securities fraud action in the Sixth Circuit. Mr. Bear was also a key member of the litigation team responsible for In re Accredo Health, Inc. Sec. Litig., which recovered $33 million for investors, settling weeks before a trial date.

Mr. Bear is based at the Firm’s headquarters in San Diego and is frequently resident in the Firm's London office.