Howard Milton Privette

Practice Details

• Firm Information
  Position

  Partner

  Firm Name

  Snell & Wilmer L.L.P.
• Representative Cases & Transactions
  Cases

  Representative Experience: Acted as lead trial counsel for a three-week Los Angeles federal jury trial in one of the very few securities class actions to ever go to trial anywhere in the United States. He defended the former chairman
  CEO of a publicly traded company against securities claims based on the restatement of two years of revenues. The trial was profiled by the Daily Journal, the Financial Times,
  Law360.
  Served as a member of the trial team for a three-week Orange County federal court trial defending the former chairman
  CEO of a data storage technology company in a civil enforcement action brought by the SEC based on allegations of insider trading
  misstatements relating to the company's revenue guidance. The trial was profiled by the Daily Journal.
  Served as a member of the trial team for a four-week Orange County state court jury trial defending an investment bank against claims it had failed to conduct a 'guaranteed' initial public offering of securities.
  Acted as lead counsel for a large national REIT in a week-long arbitration alleging breaches of several master lease agreements.
  Served as amicus curiae in briefing before the United States Supreme Court on questions related to materiality as an element of federal securities claims.
  Defended a multinational investment bank in putative class actions brought in the Southern District of New York under the Investment Advisers Act, the Securities Exchange Act,
  New York law, alleging claims relating to billions of dollars of auction rate securities. The case was profiled by the American Lawyer
  the Financial Times.
  Represented a global technology leader
  its officers
  directors in multiple actions brought by shareholders in Orange County state
  federal court. The case addressed novel questions concerning the applicability of the federal Securities Litigation Uniform St
  ards Act.
  Defended a regional bank in Orange County Superior Court in a purported shareholder class
  derivative action related to the bank's capital
  dividend policies
  alleged interested-party transactions.
  Defended a former senior executive of an electric vehicle company in consolidated shareholder litigation brought in the District of Delaware under the Securities Act of 1933
  the Securities Exchange Act of 1934.
  Defended a biotechnology company
  its officers
  directors in securities class actions
  a derivative action in Phoenix, Arizona. The plaintiffs alleged failure to disclose that claimed healing rates of the company's flagship product were not supported by clinical data
  that the company's sales force misrepresented the approved uses
  efficacy of the product.
  Defended a public technology company in New York state court against claims of securities violations arising from an offering of the company's stock.
  Defended a dental
  vision benefits company
  its officers
  directors in a class action filed in Orange County federal court. The plaintiffs alleged misstatements concerning the company's accounting
  business prospects.
  Represented the largest shareholder
  former vice chairman of a publicly traded hotel
  gaming company after the company involuntarily redeemed the clients' shares. The matter included lawsuits
  counterclaims in Nevada state
  federal courts based on allegations of Foreign Corrupt Practices Act violations, federal
  state securities violations,
  breach of fiduciary duties.
  Defended an investment management company
  its senior officer in connection with claims of fraud
  civil racketeering based on allegations related to motion picture investments
  loan guarantees.