Carol V. Gilden

Carol V. Gilden is a Partner in Cohen Milstein’s Securities Litigation & Investor Protection practice group. She represents public pension funds, Taft-Hartley pension and health and welfare funds, and other institutional investors in securities class actions, transaction, and derivative litigation, and individual actions, as well as in foreign securities litigation. She also litigates other types of complex litigation and class actions in state and federal courts nationwide.

Ms. Gilden is an industry leader and client champion, spearheading some of the most novel securities disputes in the financial markets, resulting in aggregate recoveries in excess of several billion dollars for investors. Her guiding principle – those who commit fraud on the financial markets should be held accountable.

Ms. Gilden has been court-appointed lead, co-lead, or executive committee counsel on numerous high-profile securities cases, including MF Global, in which the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit held that companies that make false, misleading statements cannot hide behind risk disclosures in an attempt to escape liability, and for which she was named in the National Law Journal’s Hot Plaintiffs Firm of the Year; and IntraLinks – one of the first securities class actions to be certified following the Supreme Court’s decision in Halliburton II, providing a roadmap for obtaining class certification to other cases. She is currently Co-Lead Counsel in two groundbreaking antitrust lawsuits involving two of the world’s largest financial markets.