Jay C. Gandhi specializes in complex business litigation, with a primary emphasis on securities litigation matters and officer and director liability, and a secondary emphasis on real estate cases.

His securities litigation practice includes representing corporations, mutual funds, officers and directors, and investors in federal and state securities lawsuits, shareholder class actions, derivative lawsuits, and regulatory investigations and enforcement proceedings.



Mr. Gandhi’s securities litigation engagements include:

• The chairman of the board in a $2 billion “going private” transaction for the world’s largest fresh fruit and vegetable producer; shareholders filed several class action lawsuits across four jurisdictions, alleging a breach of fiduciary duty in connection with the proposed price.
• The CEO of a computer network company in federal securities fraud class action lawsuits, state merger and acquisition lawsuits, a shareholder derivative action, and an SEC investigation arising from several restatements of earnings.
• A large mutual fund investment company and its board of trustees in several class action securities lawsuits filed in California, Colorado, Texas, Illinois, and New York, and governmental actions by the SEC, the New York Attorney General’s office, and the Colorado Attorney General’s office regarding market timing, late trading, and related issues.
• A large mutual fund complex, including the investment company, its advisor, and their officers and directors, in federal securities fraud class action lawsuits in California, Delaware, and Wisconsin, and a state shareholder derivative action regarding “fair value pricing” and prospectus disclosures.
• The company, a provider of living wound healing products and bioengineered surgical products, its CEO and CFO in a state securities fraud lawsuit arising from a multi-million dollar private placement.

Mr. Gandhi regularly writes and speaks in the area of securities litigation, and general litigation overall.

He is a co-author of the book “SECURITIES LAW CLAIMS: A PRACTICAL GUIDE” (Oceana Pub. 2004).

Mr. Gandhi’s other recent publications include: Quashing the Tag-Along Derivative Lawsuit, ASSOCIATION OF CORPORATE COUNSEL NEWSLETTER (Third Quarter 2005); Daou II Reshapes Circuit's Securities Litigation Picture, LOS ANGELES DAILY JOURNAL (Aug. 2, 2005); Perjury Trips Aside, Pitfalls Abound in Parallel Actions, LOS ANGELES DAILY JOURNAL (April 27, 2005); Silicon Slippage? Ninth Circuit Shows Signs of Relaxing Pleading Standards in Fraud Claims, THE RECORDER (July 19, 2004); The Clone Derivative Lawsuit, ORANGE COUNTY LAWYER MAGAZINE (Vol. 46, No. 7 July 2004); Market Timing Scandal May Lead to Variable Insurance Annuities, LOS ANGELES DAILY JOURNAL (June 16, 2004); Royal Carves New Path in Discovery-Stay Terrain, LOS ANGELES DAILY JOURNAL (April 5, 2004); and Throwing SLUSA’s Doors Wide: Federal Preemption of State Securities Fraud Claims After S.E.C. v. Zandford, ABTL REPORT, VOL. V NO. 1 (Spring 2003).

Mr. Gandhi is also a regular lecturer, having recently addressed the American Corporate Counsel Association (ACCA) in its annual “Recon 2007 Program: New Laws for In-house Counsel to be Aware (and Beware) of in 2007” and ACCA’s Roundtable on revenue recognition and securities litigation. He also served as faculty for the National Institute of Trial Advocacy’s (NITA) seminar on “Law and Motion Practice.”

Mr. Gandhi was named a “Rising Star Lawyer” for the past four consecutive years – 2004, 2005, 2006, and 2007 – in the “Super Lawyers” Edition of Los Angeles Magazine. “Rising Stars” are considered the top 2.5% of all lawyers under the age of 40 practicing in Southern California.

Mr. Gandhi is an alumni of the Trial Attorney Partnership with the Orange County District Attorney’s office where he worked on a full-time basis as a volunteer Deputy District Attorney prosecuting crimes, including first chairing multiple jury trials.

Mr. Gandhi also served for one year as a judicial law clerk to the Honorable Kenneth M. Hoyt, United States District Court, Southern District of Texas (Houston Division).

Mr. Gandhi received his J.D. degree from the University of Southern California Law School in 1997, where he graduated Order of the Coif and received American Jurisprudence awards in commercial law and real estate law. While in law school, he served as an editor of the Southern California Interdisciplinary Law Journal. He received his B.A. degree, with honors, in Business Administration (Marketing) and Philosophy from California State University, Fullerton in 1994.

Mr. Gandhi sits on the Board of Directors of the Federal Bar Association of Orange County.

Mr. Gandhi is also actively involved with the Orange County Bar Association’s Business Litigation Section, and the Association of Business Trial Lawyers. He is a former President of the South Asian Bar Association of Southern California.

Mr. Gandhi is committed to youth education and development, and is a former Board of Director of the Boy Scouts of America’s Learning for Life and the Camp Fire USA Orange County Council.

Vijay Bondada was president of NASABA from 2004 to 2005 and was a member of NASABA’s original founding executive committee. Mr. Bondada is Senior Corporate Counsel in the Legal Division of Pfizer Inc., the world’s largest pharmaceutical manufacturer. Based in the company’s New York headquarters, he coordinates and manages various nation-wide complex litigation matters involving several of the company’s key therapies and also represents Pfizer’s interests with respect to its insurance coverage and risk management portfolios. Mr. Bondada also serves as Pfizer global liaison for litigation matters pending in Asia, Africa, Europe, Australia and South America.

Prior to joining Pfizer, Mr. Bondada worked at some of the country’s premier law firms, including Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom LLP, Reed Smith LLP and Dickstein Shapiro LLP. Mr. Bondada’s practice at these firms was devoted to the representation of multiple Fortune 100 companies in complex products liability, securities and insurance coverage matters. He is a graduate of Temple University School of Law.

Mr. Bondada is a former president of the South Asian Bar Association of New York. He is a current director for the NASABA Foundation and serves as a member of the ABA Presidential Advisory Panel on Diversity.

Anil K. Chaddha (University of Michigan B.A. 1992; Cornell University J.D. 1995; Cornell University Masters of Industrial Labor Relations 1996) is a labor and employment attorney with the General Electric Company. After 6 years in private practice, Anil joined GE in 2002 as lead labor counsel for GE Transportation in Erie, PA. In 2005, Anil was promoted to an Executive labor and employment position at GE Corporate Headquarters in Fairfield, CT reporting to GE's Senior Executive Labor Counsel. Anil currently provides counsel on compliance with employment and labor laws, including termination, discipline, leaves of absence, wage and hour issues, union matters, and other employment issues; provides defense for employment charges, grievances, and lawsuits; and develops company wide employment compliance initiatives. Anil also provides counsel on employee privacy issues in the U.S. and internationally.

Anil is the NASABA Corporate Counsel Committee Chair and a member of SABA Connecticut. He has been an active member of the GE Asian Pacific American Forum (APAF). Anil was a past Vice President of the Rochester NY chapter of the Association of Indians in America. In 2006, the South Asian Bar Association of New York awarded Anil its "Legal Trailblazer Award."

Suchitra Narayen is a Senior Director with the Global Sales and Services legal group of Sun Microsystems, Inc. She joined Sun in 1999, initially supporting a number of product and service groups with respect to inbound licensing and product release issues. In her current role, she oversees outbound sales, services and licensing transactions, manages the Sun Business Governance system, and develops legal processes to address liability, IP ownership, pricing indemnity and other customer-facing issues. She has also pioneered the use of offshore legal resources to enhance productivity and improve cost effectiveness.

She is a versatile and effective attorney with a demonstrated record of success and broad international experience handling both substantive legal and operational responsibilities.

In addition to her legal role, Suchitra is a Certified Sigma Black Belt and the Master Black Belt for the Sun Legal and Compliance department. In this role, she helped to design and implement a global open source review process and tool, an automated way to deploy online "click" agreements, an online contract summary tool, and other legal processes and tools.

Suchitra is a Gold Medalist who received her LL.B from the University of Calgary and is admitted to practice in Alberta, Canada and California. Prior to joining Sun, Suchitra was a senior litigation associate at Pettit & Martin and Coudert Brothers and the Managing Litigation Attorney at Acer America. She handled a wide variety of commercial, construction, energy, government contracts, IP and insurance coverage matters. At Acer, she also managed complex M&A/restructuring matters in addition to IP, employment and commercial litigation.

Ramona E. Romero is Managing Counsel - Operations and Partnering at E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Company. In that leadership role, she is responsible for all facets of DuPont Legal’s partnering program, including vendor and law firm selection, firm performance evaluation, internal and external case assignment, rate negotiations and matter conflict resolution. Her operational responsibilities include litigation budget management, supervising DuPont Legal’s e-discovery team, overseeing legal technology initiatives, and briefing DuPont’s outside auditors and Company management on litigation matters to facilitate compliance with Sarbanes-Oxley. Before she accepted her current assignment in May 2005, Ramona managed complex commercial and antitrust litigation and oversaw DuPont Legal’s Diverse Supplier Program. Ramona speaks frequently throughout the United States and Canada on topics as diverse as antitrust law, litigation technology, outside counsel management, and diversity in the legal profession.

Prior to joining DuPont, Ramona practiced at Crowell and Moring in Washington, DC for ten years. There, she represented companies facing criminal investigations, civil fraud litigation, government contract disputes and complex commercial and antitrust actions.

Ramona has been active in numerous community and professional organizations. For example, she served on the Board of Directors of the American Red Cross in the Delmarva Peninsula, was a co-founder and director of the Dominican American National Roundtable and served as President of the Hispanic Bar Association of the District of Columbia. She currently serves on the Board of Governors of the Hispanic National Bar Association and on the Advisory Council of the National Association of Minority and Women Owned Law Firms.

Ramona received her undergraduate degree from Barnard College, Columbia University. She obtained her J.D. from Harvard Law School, where she was a teaching assistant for Federal Litigation, an associate editor for the International Law Journal and a student attorney and director of the Prison Legal Assistance Project.