Christopher Gold represents class members in complex securities cases, shareholder derivative, consumer fraud and corporate governance litigation.
Christopher Gold is an associate in the Firm’s Boca Raton office. His practice focuses on the representation of corporate shareholders in merger and acquisition and securities fraud litigation, as well as classes of consumers who were harmed by deceptive business practices.
Gold is licensed to practice in Florida at both the state and the federal level and has worked on a number of notable cases, including: In re Sony Gaming Networks & Customer Data Sec. Breach Litig. (S.D. Cal.), involving the massive data breach of Sony’s PlayStation Network in 2011, which settled for benefits valued at $15 million; In re Winn-Dixie Stores, Inc. S’holder Litig. (Fla. 4th Cir. Ct.), which recovered $9 million for former Winn-Dixie shareholders following the corporate buyout by BI-LO, the then-largest merger and acquisition recovery in Florida history; and In re AuthenTec, Inc. S’holder Litig. (Fla. 18th Cir. Ct.), where final approval is pending for a new Florida record, $10 million settlement achieved on behalf of the former shareholders of AuthenTec following a buyout by Apple, which incorporated AuthenTec’s fingerprint technology into the Apple iPhone.
Gold is fluent in Brazilian Portuguese and is currently involved in the Petróleo Brasileiro S.A. – Petrobras matter and the Gerdau S.A. securities litigation pending in the Southern District of New York, in which the Firm was appointed Lead Counsel.
Gold joined the Firm in 2010. He earned a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration from Lynn University and a Juris Doctor degree from DePaul University College of Law. While studying at DePaul, Gold was a member of the Phi Alpha Delta fraternity and served as a Teaching Assistant to Professor Benjamin Alba. During his law school summers, Gold clerked for the Firm, as well as the Chicago insurance defense firm, Sneckenberg, Thompson & Brody.
