Caitlin Moyna is a principal at Grant & Eisenhofer, with over 20 years of experience in U.S. and foreign securities fraud class action and opt-out litigation, shareholder derivative actions, merger litigation, and international arbitration. Ms. Moyna is also Co-Director of the Grant & Eisenhofer ESG Institute.
Currently, Ms. Moyna represents lead plaintiffs in securities class actions against General Electric, Exxon, Snowflake, Verizon, and BioXcel. She previously helped achieve significant recoveries for defrauded investors from Celsius Holdings, Portland General Electric, ProPetro, Santander Consumer USA, Camping World, Career Education and Miller Energy Resources, and prior to her time at G&E, against The Blackstone Group, among many others. She has also represented investors who opt out of securities class actions, including those against Valeant, Merck and Citigroup.
Ms. Moyna also has significant experience in litigating contractual disputes. She represented investors who challenged an early redemption of bonds issued by AgriBank and CoBank. She also represents textbook authors in an action against McGraw Hill challenging a new royalty payment plan which significantly reduces their royalty payments. Her experience also includes representing investors challenging mergers and other corporate actions in the Delaware Court of Chancery.
With Managing Director Jay W. Eisenhofer, Ms. Moyna co-authored two articles concerning alternative entities: “What is the State of Delaware Law as It Relates to the Scope of Fiduciary Duties Owed to Investors in So-Called Alternative Entities?”, Bloomberg BNA, Corporate Accountability Report (Dec. 5, 12, and 19, 2014); and “What Is the Current State of Delaware Law on the Scope of Fiduciary Duties Owed by Hedge Fund Managers to Their Funds and Investors?”, The Hedge Fund Law Report, Vol. 6, Nos. 26 and 27 (Sept. 19 and 26, 2013).
Ms. Moyna currently serves on Law360’s editorial advisory board for securities litigation. She is also a Junior Vice President at the Institute for Law and Economic Policy, a think tank focused on investor litigation.
Prior to joining G&E, Ms. Moyna was associated with Cravath, Swaine & Moore and Ropes and Gray, where she represented corporations in securities fraud class actions and government investigations, as well as a boutique litigation firm specializing in investor representation.
Ms. Moyna is a cum laude graduate of Northwestern University School of Law, where she was elected to the Order of the Coif and served on the Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology, and where she was asked to be the first ever student-writing tutor for the entire first year class of law students. Ms. Moyna received her A.B. from Dartmouth College.