Robert David Weber

Practice Details

• Firm Information
  Position

  Partner

  Firm Name

  Sheppard Mullin
• Representative Cases & Transactions
  Cases

  Experience: Representative Cases: Won a federal court bench trial for a Taiwanese investor against a Nasdaq-listed LED chip manufacturer that had failed to honor the terms of a securities purchase agreement. The judgment included a 100% award of claimed damages, plus pre-judgment
  post-judgment interest.
  Won dismissal of a federal court lawsuit in which a Russian real estate mogul attempted to collect an $84 million arbitral award against a Liechtenstein trust.
  Won a multi-million dollar arbitration award on behalf of a real estate investor in a dispute concerning the proper distribution of proceeds from the sale of two large developments in Orange County, California.
  Obtained the complete dismissal on summary judgment for the directors of the nation's largest Korean-American bank in a shareholder derivative action. Successfully defended the decision in an appeal to the California Court of Appeal
  Successfully defended a multinational manufacturer against claims of fraud
  misrepresentation in connection with a loan agreement, which proceeded in a Hong Kong arbitration.
  Won a complete dismissal on summary judgment for a Hong Kong investment bank in a $100 million-plus securities fraud lawsuit filed in the Central District of California arising from an IPO on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange
  Successfully defended an AMEX-traded Chinese company
  several of its officers
  directors in a securities class action involving allegations that, among other things, the company's finances as reported in its SEC filings did not correspond with financial results the company reported to the SAIC,
  that the company overpaid for several significant assets
  Won dismissal of a federal shareholder derivative action against the officers
  directors of a Tennessee-based oil
  gas producer,
  successfully defended the decision on appeal.
  Represented an analyst in a federal defamation suit brought by a public company
  its chairman seeking over $100 million in damages. Obtained complete dismissal of the case by winning an Anti-SLAPP Motion to Strike
  Reported Decisions: Takata v. Riot Blockchain, et al., 2022 WL 1058389 (D. N.J. 2022)
  Gaynor v. Miller, et al., 205 F.Supp.3d 935 (E.D. Tenn. 2016)
  In re: Resonant Inc. Securities Litigation, 2016 WL 1737959
  Tribank Capital Investments, Inc. v. Orient Paper, Inc., 2013 WL 4200898 (C.D. Cal. August 14, 2013)
  In re New Energy Systems Securities Litigation, 2014 WL 5002741 (S.D.N.Y. September 30, 2014)
  Campbell v. Weihe Yu, et al., 25 F.Supp.3d 472 (S.D.N.Y. 2014)
  Lukas v. McPeak, 730 F.3d 635 (6th Cir. 2013)
  Lukas v. McPeak, 2012 WL 4359437 (E.D. Tenn. 2012)
  Chung v. Nara Bancorp, Inc., et al., 2012 WL 290359 (Cal.App. 2 Dist. February 01, 2012)
  Medifast, Inc. v. Minkow, 2011 WL 1157625 (S.D. Cal. March 29, 2011)
  Latshaw v. Trainer Wortham & Co., Inc., 452 F.3d 1097 (9th Cir. 2006)
  Bryant v. Roblee, 153 S.W.3d 626 (Tex.App.-Amarillo 2004)