Karen Hanson Riebel

Partner Attorney @Lockridge Grindal Nauen Pllp

Minneapolis, MN, US

Karen Hanson Riebel concentrates her practice in the areas of securities and antitrust litigation. She has litigated a number of complex class action matters and represented numerous pension funds and other institutional investors in cases involving corporate fraud.Ms. Riebel spent seven months in Anchorage, Alaska, in 1994, as a member of the trial team that secured a jury verdict for punitive damages in the amount of $5 billion for a mandatory punitive damages class in In re The Exxon Valdez, Case No. A89-0095-CV (D. Alaska). For their efforts, Ms. Riebel and the other members of the trial team were awarded the Trial Lawyers’ For Public Justice Trial Lawyers of the Year award in 1994. Ms. Riebel also has been extensively involved in the processing of over claims filed by class members in the litigation.Representative Cases:In re Countrywide Financial Corporation Securities Litigation No. 07-CV-05295 (C.D. Cal.) — Securities class action which resulted in recovery of $624 million for plaintiffs.Kirk Dahl, et al, v. Bain Capital Partners, LLC, et al,(the Private Equity Antitrust Litigation) No. 07-CV-12388 (D. Mass.)In re Payment Card Interchange Fee and Merchant Discount Antitrust Litigation MDL No. 1720 (E.D. NY)In re Worldcom, Inc. Securities Litigation No. 02-CV-3288 (S.D. NY) — Securities class action which resulted in recovery of $6.13 billion for plaintiffs.In re AOL Time Warner Securities Litigation, MDL No. 1500 (S.D. NY) — Securities class action which resulted in recovery of $2.65 billion for plaintiffs.