Jennifer Hadley Catero serves as Co-Chair of the firm’s commercial litigation practice and corporate governance litigation group. Jennifer handles complex commercial litigation with an emphasis on corporate governance litigation, banking, consumer financial services and securities litigation, FINRA arbitration proceedings, shareholder derivative litigation, D&O litigation, class actions, internal investigations, and privacy and data security issues. She also advises clients on compliance issues regarding consumer financial products and services.
Her corporate governance litigation practice includes the representation of directors, officers, shareholders, members, and partners in various business enterprises in disputes arising from the performance of duties, the sale or dissolution of a business, valuation, distribution, divestiture, takeover battles, challenges to mergers and acquisitions and financing transactions, and matters related to change in control, such as potential derivative actions and breach of fiduciary duty claims.
Jennifer’s securities practice includes the representation of a number of financial institutions, including retail and investment banks, commercial lenders, underwriters, broker-dealers, investment advisors, and publicly traded and privately held companies in federal court, state court, and SRO arbitrations. She has represented these clients in matters involving claims for violations of federal and state registration and securities fraud statutes, directors’ and officers’ liability, shareholder derivative litigation, unsuitability, selling-away, churning, unauthorized trading, and failure to supervise. Jennifer’s practice also includes the representation of shareholders, officers, directors, and corporations in connection with shareholder derivative litigation, D&O litigation, and internal investigations.
Her financial services litigation practice includes the representation of national and local banks, merchant processing and service organizations, credit card issuers, mortgage lenders, automobile finance servicing organizations, and securities broker-dealers in matters throughout the West. She has represented these clients in matters involving lender liability claims that include loan commitments, bad-faith dealing, termination of credit and wrongful acceleration of foreclosure, Truth in Lending Act (TILA), Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA), Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act (RESPA), Home Ownership Equity Protection Act (HOEPA), Electronic Fund Transfer Act (EFTA), Equal Credit Opportunity Act (ECOA), Community Reinvestment Act (CRA), Uniform Commercial Code (UCC), Unfair Debt Collection Practices Act (UDCPA), consumer fraud statutes, demand deposit account disputes involving check fraud, check kiting presentment and clearing issues, business torts and breach of contract issues. She has represented credit card issuers in disputes involving allegations of fraudulent transactions, authorized users, reversed charges, application of payments, interest rate disclosures and modifications, change in terms and fees and disclosures for related products and services. She has also represented merchant processors in litigation involving holdbacks, unauthorized business lines, termination, fees, commissions for merchant processor sales representatives, and contract disputes involving merchant account agreements. She also advises clients on privacy issues arising from the collection and use of consumer non-public personal financial information.