Joseph A. Fonti focuses his practice on securities class action litigation. Currently, Mr. Fonti is actively involved in prosecuting In re HealthSouth Securities Litigation, In re Broadcom Corp. Securities Litigation, In re Celestica Inc. Securities Litigation and Caisse de Depot du Quebec v. Vivendi et al.

Mr. Fonti has successfully litigated complex civil and regulatory securities matters, including obtaining a favorable judgment after trial. Prior to joining Labaton Sucharow, Mr. Fonti was an attorney at Bernstein Litowitz Berger & Grossmann LLP, where he prosecuted securities class actions on behalf of institutional investors, including class actions involving WorldCom, Bristol-Myers, Omnicom, Biovail, and the mutual fund industry scandal. Mr. Fonti’s work on these cases contributed to historic recoveries for shareholders, including the $6.15 billion recovery in the WorldCom litigation and the $300 million recovery in the Bristol-Myers litigation, alleging accounting fraud and improper inventory practices.

Mr. Fonti began his legal career at Sullivan & Cromwell, where he represented several Fortune 500 corporations, focusing on securities matters and domestic and international commercial law. Mr. Fonti also represented clients in complex investigations conducted by federal regulators, including the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.

Over the past several years, he has represented victims of domestic violence in affiliation with inMotion, an organization that provides pro bono legal services to indigent women.

Mr. Fonti earned a B.A., cum laude, from New York University in 1996 and a J.D. from New York University School of Law in 1999, where he was active in the Marden Moot Court Competition and served as a Student Senator-at-Large of the NYU Senate. As a law student, he served as a law clerk to the Honorable David Trager, United States District Court Judge for the Eastern District of New York.

Mr. Fonti is admitted to practice in New York, as well as the United States District Courts for the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York, the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth and Eleventh Circuits and the United States Supreme Court.