DiCello Levitt

DiCello Levitt joins the ranking having made a big play in the securities litigation space by hiring a large group from Robbins Geller Rudman & Dowd LLP. Founding partner Adam Levitt in Chicago has extensive experience in this area of law, but brought in Patrick Daniels and Roxanna Pierce in San Diego and Washington DC respectively to lead the practice, into which five more partners were recruited during 2023. In San Diego, Henry Rosen, who has decades of experience advising both institutional and individual investors, and Brian O’Mara, who handles complex securities, antitrust, and consumer protection litigation in state and federal courts, stand out among them. Clients remark that the firm has ‘outstanding technical skills, and the capacity to listen to clients and to take their concerns on board’, with one picking Pierce for her ’outstanding skills in proactive communications’, and Daniels for his ‘thorough market knowledge, and capacity for confidence building’. In 2023, the firm filed a securities class action seeking damages on behalf of holders of Additional Tier 1 bonds issued by Credit Suisse Group, the collapse of which wiped off $17bn in value from the bonds.