Bar & Court Admissions
- Pennsylvania
- New York
- Supreme Court of the United States
- United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
- United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
- United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
- United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
- United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
- United States District Court Eastern District of Pennsylvania
- United States District Court Middle District of Pennsylvania
- United States District Court District of Nebraska
- United States District Court District of Colorado
- United States District Court Central District of Illinois
- United States District Court Eastern District of Michigan
Education
Temple University School of Law, J.D. cum laude, 1992
Columbia University, Columbia College, 1988
Jacob A. Goldberg is the managing attorney of The Rosen Law Firm’s Pennsylvania office. He leads a team of five lawyers, litigating cases alleging violations of the federal securities laws. For over 28 years, Jacob has litigated complex cases at the highest levels, championing the rights of investors, employees and consumers. In 2019 and 2020, Lawdragon named Jacob as one of 500 leading Plaintiff Financial Lawyers. https://www.lawdragon.com/2020/08/25/the-2020-lawdragon-500-leading-plaintiff-financial-lawyers/. Courts have echoed that honor. For example, in Williams v. Globus Medical, Inc., Case No. 16-3607, Judge Michael A. Chagares of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit called “excellent” Jacob’s briefing and oral argument. https://www.ca3.uscourts.gov/oral-argument-recordings-video. Similarly, in Setzer v. Omega Healthcare Investors, Inc., Case No. 19-1095-cv (“In re Omega Healthcare Investors, Inc.”), in which Jacob won reversal of a district court’s order, dismissing the case with prejudice, Judge Debra Ann Livingston of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit praised Jacob’s oral advocacy, commenting, “very well argued.” In that same case, Judge Richard C. Wesley added, “and nicely briefed.” http://www.ca2.uscourts.gov/decisions/isysquery/2421fdac-6765-4574-820b-b06e7a51fe66/141-150/list/. The case is reported at 968 F.3d 204 (2d Cir. 2020).
Among his other notable accomplishments in litigation under the federal securities laws are serving as one of the lead lawyers in In re: Ikon Office Solutions Securities Litigation, (E.D. Pennsylvania) which settled for $111 million then a record result for securities litigation in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. Jacob has also served as lead lawyer in Meyer v. Concordia International (S.D.N.Y.) ($9.25 million settlement); In re Tango, Inc. Sec. Litig. (D. Conn.) ($2.55 million settlement); In re Quadramed, Inc. Sec. Litig. (N.D. Cal.) ($5.25 million settlement); In re Creditrust Corporation Securities Litigation (D. Md.) ($7.5 million settlement); and In re: Ebix, Inc. Sec. Litig. ($6.5 million Settlement).
In addition to serving in a leadership role in many other cases alleging violations of the federal securities laws, Jacob has litigated many cases under state corporation laws, against faithless officers and boards of directors both on behalf of shareholders, in the mergers and acquisitions context, and, derivatively, on behalf of corporations, to remedy harm to the corporation itself. Among the most notable of these cases is Cohen v. Mirage Resorts, Inc., 119 Nev. 1, 62 P.3d 720 (2003), in which Jacob blazed a trail in mergers and acquisitions law under Nevada law. In Cohen, for the first time, the Nevada Supreme Court held that shareholders were entitled to sue to enjoin or to rescind or to receive damages on a merger achieved through wrongful conduct that goes to the approval of the merger. In so holding, the Nevada Supreme Court rejected the contention that absent fraud, shareholders of Nevada corporations were relegated to statutory appraisal rights.
Jacob has also litigated cases under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act on behalf of employees who were injured when the value of their retirement savings collapsed while fiduciaries stood mute. Most notably, Jacob served as co-lead counsel in Bredthauer v. Lundstrom, et al., (D. Nebraska), recovering $4.5 million for participants in an employee stock ownership plan which lost all of its value upon the bankruptcy filing of TierOne Bank. Among Jacob’s other notable litigation achievements was serving as a lead lawyer in Streck v. Allergan, Inc., et al., (E.D. Pennsylvania), alleging violations of the False Claims Act. In the Streck litigation, Jacob co-led a team that defeated the motion to dismiss of four major pharmaceutical manufacturers, even as the United States declined to intervene in the case.
Jacob received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Columbia University. He is a 1992 graduate of Temple University School of Law, cum laude. Jacob is admitted to practice in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, the State of New York, the United States Supreme Court, the United States Courts of Appeals for the First, Second, Third, Fourth, Sixth, and Ninth Circuits and various Unites States District Courts. He is a dual citizen of the United States of America and the Republic of Ireland.
News
- January 10, 2021
- Rosen Law Firm Appointed Lead Counsel in Coty, Inc. Class ActionNovember 25, 2020
- Rosen Law Firm Secures Reversal of the Dismissal of the Omega Healthcare Investors, Inc. Securities Class Action from the United States Court of Appeals for the Second CircuitAugust 3, 2020
- Rosen Law Firm Appointed Co-Lead Counsel in XP, Inc. Class ActionJune 4, 2020
- Rosen Law Firm Appointed Lead Counsel in Tupperware Brands Corporation Class ActionJune 2, 2020
- Rosen Law Firm Defeats Motion to Dismiss in Innocoll Holdings Public Limited Company Class ActionMarch 25, 2020
- Rosen Law Firm Appointed Co-Lead Counsel in Canopy Growth Corporation Class ActionFebruary 11, 2020
- Rosen Law Firm Appointed Co-Lead Counsel in Netflix, Inc. Class ActionFebruary 3, 2020
- January 27, 2020
- Rosen Law Firm Appointed Co-Lead Counsel in Sundial Growers, Inc. Class ActionDecember 23, 2019
- Rosen Law Firm Appointed Lead Counsel in NetApp, Inc. Class ActionNovember 12, 2019
- Rosen Law Firm Appointed Lead Counsel in Burford Capital Limited Class ActionNovember 7, 2019
- Rosen Law Firm Appointed Lead Counsel in Verb Technology Company, Inc. Class ActionOctober 9, 2019
- Rosen Law Firm Appointed Co-Lead Counsel in Box, Inc. Class ActionSeptember 5, 2019
- Rosen Law Firm Appointed Co-Lead Counsel in Beazer Homes USA, Inc. Class ActionAugust 26, 2019
- Larry Rosen, Phil Kim, and Jacob Goldberg Named to the prestigious 2019 Lawdragon 500 Leading Plaintiff Financial Lawyers
- July 1, 2019
- Rosen Law Firm Appointed Co-Lead Counsel in Sonus Networks, Inc. n/k/a Ribbon Communications Class ActionJune 21, 2019
- Rosen Law Firm Appointed Lead Counsel in Corbus Pharmaceutical Holdings, Inc. Class ActionJune 4, 2019
- March 18, 2019
- Rosen Law Firm Defeats Motion to Dismiss in Capitala Finance Corp Class ActionJanuary 8, 2019
- Rosen Law Firm Appointed Lead Counsel in Aceto Corporation Class ActionNovember 30, 2018
- Rosen Law Firm Defeats Motion to Dismiss in Spectrum Pharmaceuticals, Inc. Class ActionSeptember 24, 2018
- Rosen Law Firm Appointed Lead Counsel in InnerWorkings Inc. Class ActionAugust 1, 2018
- Rosen Law Firm Appointed Lead Counsel in Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. Class ActionJune 12, 2018
- May 18, 2018
- Rosen Law Firm Appointed Lead Counsel in Capitala Finance Corp. Class ActionMay 2, 2018
- Rosen Law Firm Appointed Co-Lead Counsel in GoPro, Inc. Class ActionApril 23, 2018
- Rosen Law Firm Appointed Lead Counsel in Tesla, Inc. Class ActionFebruary 2, 2018
- Rosen Law Firm Defeats Motion to Dismiss in Santander Consumer USA Holdings Inc. Class ActionJanuary 3, 2018
- December 28, 2017
- November 27, 2017
- Rosen Law Firm Defeats Dismissal Motion in the Concordia International Corp. Class ActionAugust 2, 2017
- May 2, 2017
- Rosen Attorney Jacob Goldberg will speak at the 5th Tri-State Institutional Investor Forum, NYC on Feb. 22February 21, 2017
- Rosen Law Firm Defeats Motion to Dismiss filed in Caesarstone Ltd. Class ActionJuly 21, 2016
- Rosen Law Firm Appointed Lead Counsel in MannKind Corporation Class ActionMay 19, 2016
- Rosen Law Firm Appointed Lead Counsel in Helix Energy Solutions Group, Inc. Class ActionJanuary 28, 2016
- Rosen Law Firm Appointed Co-Lead Counsel in Globus Medical, Inc. Class ActionJanuary 15, 2016
- Rosen Law Firm Appointed Co-Lead Counsel in Zafgen, Inc. Class ActionJanuary 7, 2016
- Rosen Law Firm Appointed Co-Lead Counsel in Caesarstone Sdot-Yam Ltd. Class ActionNovember 18, 2015
- Rosen Law Firm Appointed Co-Lead Counsel in Uranium Energy Corp. Class ActionOctober 20, 2015
- Rosen Law Firm Appointed Lead Counsel in Sonus Networks, Inc. Class ActionSeptember 21, 2015
- Rosen Law Firm Appointed Lead Counsel in Cellular Biomedicine Group, Inc. Class ActionAugust 3, 2015
- Rosen Law Firm Appointed Lead Counsel in Forcefield Energy, Inc. Class ActionJuly 22, 2015
Cases
- December 18, 2018
- April 17, 2018