Adam K. Doerr

• Represented plaintiffs in redistricting litigation that led to the redrawing of North Carolina’s legislative districts and was appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court in Moore v. Harper.

• Represented national retailer in multidistrict litigation involving class and collective actions based on alleged violations of the Fair Labor Standards Act and the state labor laws of 19 different states.

• Represented investors in settlement of derivative claims regarding over $300 million in real estate investments formed by U.S. Congressman Robert Pittenger; obtained approval of settlement by 51 real estate LLCs with over 1,400 individual members, including creation of new corporate entity to hold carried interest and negotiation of agreements with new manager.

• Obtained dismissal of leading university from class action litigation filed in the Northern District of California regarding the Varsity Blues investigation into college admissions.

• Represents public companies, LLCs and investors in internal corporate disputes, including breach of fiduciary duty claims, and books and records demands under both Delaware and North Carolina law.

• Represented a Fortune 500 retailer in a putative national class action brought by tens of thousands of individual store managers, including an interlocutory appeal in the Fourth Circuit and a petition for certiorari to the U.S. Supreme Court. 

• Represented governor of North Carolina in challenging proposed constitutional amendments; successfully obtained injunction based on failure of ballot language to inform voters about proposed changes to the North Carolina Constitution.

• Regularly defends board members, corporations and private equity firms against shareholder lawsuits challenging public company mergers, including litigation over eight different public company transactions in recent years.

• Represented Wachovia Corp. and its directors in successfully defending a suit challenging Wachovia's $15 billion merger with Wells Fargo. Ehrenhaus v. Baker, 2008 NCBC 20 (2008) (refusing to enjoin the merger), on appeal after settlement, 717 S.E.2d 9 (N.C. Ct. App. 2011) (upholding non opt-out settlement), 776 S.E.2d 699 (N.C. Ct. App. 2015) (rejecting further challenge to settlement).

• Filed multiple briefs with the U.S. Supreme Court, including an amicus brief for the Cato Institute supporting the victim of a police shooting, a petition for certiorari in a major class action, and an opposition to certiorari in a case raising First Amendment issues. 

• Litigated complex fraud and other claims in multiple forums following collapse of massive Ponzi and accounting fraud scheme.

• Obtained dismissal, without discovery, of four separate cases filed in three different courts by shareholders regarding the decline in Wachovia’s share price; successfully defended results on appeal. Rivers v. Wachovia, 665 F.3d 610 (4th Cir. 2011); Browne v. Thompson, 727 S.E.2d 637 (N.C. Ct. App. 2012); Rice-Marko v. Wachovia, 728 S.E.2d 301 (S.C. Ct. App. 2012); Harris v. Wachovia, 2011 NCBC 3 (N.C. Bus. Ct. 2011).

• Defended Duke Energy Corp. in multijurisdictional litigation regarding its $32 billion merger with Progress Energy Corp. In re Progress Energy Shareholder Litigation, 2011 NCBC 44 (2011).

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