Atty. Vincent R. Cappucci
Vincent R. Cappucci is a founding partner of the Firm and is Head of its Securities Litigation Practice.
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Vincent R. Cappucci is a Senior Partner based in New York, New York, practicing at Entwistle & Cappucci LLP. They have 41+ years of legal experience, licensed to practice since 1985. Their practice focuses on business, class action, m&a, and litigation. Admitted to practice in New York (1985), U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York (1985), U.S. District Court, Eastern District of New York (1985), and U.S. Court of Appeals, Second Circuit (1986). Educated at Fordham University (J.D. Accounting, 1984) and Fordham University (B.S. Accounting, 1981). Recognitions include AV Preeminent. Serands clients in New York, NY and the surrounding metropolitan area.
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- Vincent R. Cappucci is a founding partner of the Firm and is Head of its Securities Litigation Practice
- Throughout the years, Mr. Cappucci has served as lead counsel in many high profile securities class action and derivative litigations as well as individual actions representing the nation's largest public pension systems, investment advisory firms, hedge funds and proprietary trading firms
- He has a distinguished record of success in securities litigation, having prosecuted cases in his career which have resulted in recoveries in the billions of dollars
- His experience includes a multitude of complex trials, arguments in numerous state and federal appellate courts, appeals to the U.S
- Supreme Court, and mediation and dispute resolution
- Mr. Cappucci has also been named to the Martindale-Hubbell Bar Register of Preeminent Lawyers, for his expertise in securities litigation
- Mr. Cappucci has lectured before associations of the bar and various professional organizations, providing expert commentary on a wide range of securities markets and corporate governance issues
- Recently, Mr. Cappucci addressed law professors from across the country in a discussion on The Future of Securities Fraud Litigation sponsored by the RAND Institute for Civil Justice
- Mr. Cappucci has served as a faculty member of the National Conference on Corporate Governance and Equity Offerings sponsored by the UCLA Anderson School of Management and University of California Rady School of Management
- He has also addressed legal practitioners and financial professionals before the National Association of Public Pension Fund Attorneys, Council of Institutional Investors and The American Conference Institute (Trying and Defending Securities Class Actions), and before International Institutional Investors on Corporate Governance and Shareholder litigation matters at annual conferences of the International Corporate Governance Network ("ICGN"), where he also serves on the Committee on Executive Remuneration
- Mr. Cappucci is the author of numerous articles appearing in a host of publications, including: "Seeking Subprime Solutions: Fed Action, Legislation and Litigation Address the Subprime Mess," The 2007 Global Securitization Guide, May 2008
- "Legislative and Regulatory Developments in U.S
- Securitizations, The 2007 Global Securitization Guide, (May 2007); "Pay, Performance and Proxies: The Latest in Executive Compensation," Institutional Investor Fund Management Legal & Regulatory Report, March 2007; "Shareholder Activism and the Use of Litigation to Accomplish Investment Goals," Institutional Investor Fund Management Legal & Regulatory Report, April 2006; "Corporate Governance: 2005 in Review," Institutional Investor, 2005 Compliance Report; "Securities Class Actions: Settlements," The Review of Securities & Commodities Regulation, October 2003; "Hot Topics in Advertising Law: Investor Fraud," The Association of The Bar of the City of New York, October 22, 2003; "Did I Really Say That?
- The Truth Behind the DaimlerChrysler Merger," NAPPA Report, November 2003; "Beyond the Sarbanes-Oxley Bill: Additional Measures to Increase Corporate Accountability and Transparency," NAPPA Report, September 2002; "Casino Law Is Consistent With Equal Protection," New York Law Journal, March 20, 2002; "Misreading 'Gustafson' Could Eliminate Liability Under Section 11," New York Law Journal, September 22, 1997; "Liability for Excessive Executive Compensation," The Corporate Governance Advisor, March/April 1997; "Must Reliance Be Proven To Certify A Class?," New York Law Journal, August 30, 1996; "Class Action Lawsuits and Securities Fraud: A Plaintiff Lawyer's View of the Litigation Reform Act," Securities Industry News, October 7, 1996; and, "Conflicts Between Rule 23 And Securities Reform Act," New York Law Journal, April 2, 1996
- In addition to membership in various State and National Bar Associations, Mr. Cappucci currently sits on the Second Circuit Courts Committee of the Federal Bar Council and is a member of the New York State Bar Association, the American Bar Association and the Association of Trial Lawyers of America
- Mr. Cappucci received his undergraduate degree from Fordham University with a B.S. in Accounting and his law degree from Fordham University School of Law
- In 2007, he was named a Fordham Law School Centennial Founder and currently serves as Chair of the Law Advisory Committee and is a member of the Dean's Planning Council
- Mr. Cappucci also serves on the Executive Committee of the Fordham University President's Council, a select group of distinguished professionals and philanthropists committed to perpetuating the profile and interests of the University
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Business attorneys advise founders and growing companies on entity formation, contracts, financing, M&A, and dispute resolution.
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