Javier Bleichmar concentrates his practice in the area of securities class action litigation.  Since joining Labaton Sucharow, Mr. Bleichmar was instrumental in securing a $77 million settlement in the In re St. Paul Travelers Securities Litigation II on behalf of the Lead Plaintiff, the Educational Retirement Board of New Mexico.  Most recently, he has been a member of the team prosecuting securities class actions against British Petroleum and The Bear Stearns Companies, Inc.

Mr. Bleichmar is very active in educating European institutional investors on developing trends in the law, particularly the ability of international investors to participate in securities class actions in the United States. Through these efforts, many of Mr. Bleichmar’s European clients were able to join the Foundation representing investors in the first securities class action settlement under a recently enacted Dutch statute against Royal Dutch Shell.

Prior to joining Labaton Sucharow, Mr. Bleichmar practiced securities litigation at Bernstein Litowitz Berger & Grossmann LLP, where he prosecuted securities actions on behalf of institutional investors. He was actively involved in the In re Williams Securities Litigation, which resulted in a $311 million settlement, as well as securities cases involving Lucent Technologies, Inc., Conseco, Inc. and Biovail Corp.

Mr. Bleichmar graduated from Phillips Academy, Andover in 1988, earned a B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania in 1992 and a J.D. from Columbia University Law School in 1998. He was a managing editor of the Journal of Law and Social Problems. Additionally, he was a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar. As a law student, Mr. Bleichmar served as a law clerk to the Honorable Denny Chin, United States District Court Judge for the Southern District of New York.

After law school, Mr. Bleichmar authored the article “Deportation As Punishment: A Historical Analysis of the British Practice of Banishment and Its Impact on Modern Constitutional Law,”14 Georgetown Immigration Law Journal 115 (1999).

Mr. Bleichmar is admitted to practice in New York and the United States District Courts for the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York.

Mr. Bleichmar is a native Spanish speaker and fluent in French.