Robert C. Finkel is a graduate of the Columbia Law School, Class of 1981 (where he was a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar), and the Wharton School of Business of the University of Pennsylvania, Class of 1978, where he obtained a B.S. in accounting. Mr. Finkel has twenty years of experience in securities and corporate litigation, with an expertise in accountants' liability. He is admitted to the New York State Bar, the Bar of the United States District Court, Southern and Eastern Districts of New York, Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, and the Tax Court of the United States.

Mr. Finkel was an active participant in Wolf Popper's representation of the plaintiff classes in

• In re Service Corp. International, Case No. H-99-280 ($65 million recovery);
• In re Providian Financial Securities Litigation, MDL 1301 (E.D. Pa.) ($38 million recovery);
• In re TCW/DW North American Government Income Trust, 95 Civ. 0167 (PKL) (S.D.N.Y.) ($30 million settlement);
• In re PictureTel Corp. Securities Litigation, ($12 million settlement);
• In re National TechTeam Securities Litigation, Case No. 97-74587 (E.D. Mich.) ($11 million settlement);
• In re Medical Resources, Inc. Securities Litigation, No. 97-5531 (WHW) (D.N.J.);
• In re Donnkenny Securities Litigation, 96-CV-8452 (MGC) (S.D.N.Y.) ($15 million cash and common stock proposed settlement);
• Rand v. Lorimar Telepictures Corp., 88 Civ. 3179 (LLS) (S.D.N.Y.) (an open market securities fraud action which settled for $6 million) and
• Feinberg v. Empire Blue Cross-Blue Shield, 88 Civ. 2532 (RO) (S.D.N.Y.) (a class action for breach of an insurance contract which settled for $8,800,000).

• In re Medical Care America, Inc. Securities Litigation, Civil Action No. 3-92-CV-1996-R (N.D. Tex.) ($60 million settlement);
• In re Marion Merrell Dow Inc. Securities Litigation, Master File No. 92-0609-CV-W-6 (W.D. Mo.) ($13.85 million settlement);
• In re American Business Computers Corporation Securities Litigation, Docket No. MDL 913 (CLB) (S.D.N.Y.) (settlement for cash and stock valued at $6.5 million);
• Lerch v. Citizens First Bancorp, Inc., Civil Nos. 90-3538, 90-4404 (D.N.J.) ($4.9 million settlement);
• Snapp v. The Topps Company, Inc., Civil Action No. CV-93 0347 (JG) (E.D.N.Y.) ($2.45 million settlement);
• In re Columbia Securities Litigation, 89 Civ. 6821 (S.D.N.Y.) ($25 million settlement);
• In re In-Store Advertising Securities Litigation, Master File No. 90-CIV. 5594 (KC) (S.D.N.Y.) ($9.25 million settlement);
• In re Ivan F. Boesky Securities Litigation, M 21-45 (MP), MDL Dkt. No. 732 (S.D.N.Y.);
• In re Quintel Entertainment, Inc. Securities Litigation, 98 Civ. 3163 (WCC)
• (S.D.N.Y.) ($3.2 million settlement);
• In re Triarc Companies, Inc. Class and Derivative Litigation, Civil Action No. 15746-NC (Del. Ch.) (cash and stock option settlement having an estimated value of $11 million); and
• In re The Drexel Burnham Lambert Group, Inc., Chapter 11 Case No. 90 B 10421 (FGC) (Bankr. S.D.N.Y.).

• In re Cephalon Securities Litigation, [1998 Transfer Binder] Fed. Sec. L. Rep. 90,268 (E.D. Pa. Aug. 12, 1998) (granting class certification of a class broadly defined to include short sellers and option traders);
• In re Anicom, Inc. Securities Litigation, [Current Binder] Fed. Sec. L. Rep. 91,458 (N.D. Ill. May 15, 2001) (denying defendants' motion to dismiss the complaint).
• In re TCW/DW North American Government Income Trust Securities Litigation, 941 F. Supp. 326, 334 (S.D.N.Y. 1996);
• 1997 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 18485 (S.D.N.Y. 1997) (denying defendants' motion to dismiss and motions to reargue, and granting class certification);
• In re Providian Financial Corporation Securities Litigation, 52 F. Supp.2d 826 (E.D. Pa. 2001) (denying defendants' motion to dismiss);
• In re Donnkenny, Inc. Securities Litigation, 171 F.R.D. 156 (S.D.N.Y. 1997) (appointing lead plaintiff);
• In re Gaming Lottery Securities Litigation, [1998 Transfer Binder] Fed. Sec. L. Rep. 90,236 (S.D.N.Y. 1998) (denying defendants' motion to dismiss the complaint); 58 F. Supp.2d 62 (S.D.N.Y. 1999) (granting certification of a class consisting of U.S. and Canadian investors), and [2000-2001 Transfer Binder] Fed. Sec. L. Rep. 91,339 (S.D.N.Y. 2001) (granting summary judgment against the individual defendants);
• Chalverus v. Pegasystems, Inc., 59 F. Supp.2d 26, 231 (D. Mass. 1999) (denying defendants' motion for summary judgment;
• In re Quintel Entertainment Securities Litigation, Inc., 72 F. Supp.2d 283 (S.D.N.Y. 1999) (denying defendants' motion to dismiss).

Mr. Finkel's article entitled "Investor Oversight Over the Issuance of Stock Options," was published in The New York Law Journal on September 20, 2000.

Mr. Finkel became a partner at Wolf Popper LLP effective January 1, 1992.