Stuart Grant

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Stuart Grant, Stuart M. Grant, co-founder of Grant & Eisenhofer P.A. and managing director and co-founder of Bench Walk Advisors, is internationally recognized for his extensive knowledge in the areas of Delaware corporate law, fiduciary responsibility, securities and investments, private equity and fixed income, appraisal remedies, valuation, proxy contests and other matters related to protecting and promoting the rights of institutional investors. He has served as litigation counsel to many of the largest public and private institutional investors in the world. As managing director and co-founder of Bench Walk, a litigation finance company, Mr. Grant employs creative solutions for plaintiffs to pursue complex, meritorious cases that may be costly and lengthy to litigate.

Mr. Grant was the first attorney to argue the provisions of the PSLRA allowing an institutional investor to be appointed as sole lead plaintiff and has served as lead counsel in eight of the ten largest settlements in the history of Delaware Chancery Court.

Among his many accolades, Mr. Grant is consistently ranked in Band 1 of Chambers USA as a leading litigator for his work in Delaware Chancery and securities, regulatory and corporate governance litigation. For the past several years, he has been named to Best Lawyers, ranked as a leading lawyer by Legal 500, and selected for inclusion in Super Lawyers. Mr. Grant, was repeatedly recognized as one of the Top 500 Leading Lawyers in America by Lawdragon, and in early 2019 was inducted into the Lawdragon 500 Hall of Fame. He is rated AV by Martindale-Hubbell, and is recognized by Benchmark Litigation as one of the Top 100 Trial Lawyers. Additionally, The National Law Journal has selected Grant & Eisenhofer to its list of “Elite Trial Lawyers: The 50 Leading Plaintiffs Firms in America” since the commencement of the list.

Just prior to retiring as G&E’s co-managing director in July 2018, Mr. Grant won a jury verdict on behalf of a whistleblower who exposed a scheme by Overstock.com to avoid reporting and remitting to Delaware millions of dollars in dormant gift cards. Following a five-day trial in Delaware Superior Court, Overstock was found to have violated Delaware’s False Claims and Reporting Act over a four-year period. The aggregate amount of unreported gift card balances was just under $3 million.