Mr. Kammerman focuses his practice on securities class action litigation, shareholder derivative litigation, and commercial litigation. Prior to joining Abraham, Fruchter & Twersky, LLP as Of Counsel in 2017, Mr. Kammerman was a partner at Milberg LLP where he practiced for over 14 years. A sample of Mr. Kammerman’s successful litigations include In re CMS Energy Securities Litigation, No. 02-72004 (E.D. Mich.) ($200 million recovery); In re Royal Dutch/Shell Transport ERISA Litigation, No. 04-1398 (D.N.J.) ($90 million recovery); Scheiner v. i2 Technologies, No. 01-0418 (N.D. Tex.) ($87.8 million recovery); and Mich II Holdings LLC v. Schron, No. 600736/10 (Sup. Ct. N.Y. Cnty.) (represented certain defendants in connection with real estate dispute and successfully litigated motion to dismiss all claims against those defendants).
Mr. Kammerman played a leading role in the Platinum Partners Value Arbitrage Fund, LP, et al. v. Chicago Board Options Exchange, Inc. and Options Clearing Corporation, No. 10 CH 54472 (Ill. Cir. Ct. Cook Cnty.) litigation, including litigating the successful appeal leading to the precedent-setting decision, reported at 2012 IL App (1st) 112903 (Ill. App. Ct. 2012), where the Illinois Appellate Court, First District, reversed the previous dismissal of the case on regulatory immunity grounds, and held that regulatory immunity does not apply where self-regulated organizations privately disclose information about the price adjustment of a stock option to selected market participants before that information is made publicly available.
Mr. Kammerman played a pivotal role in the In re Comverse Technology, Inc. Derivative Litigation, No. 601272/06 (Sup. Ct. N.Y. Cnty.) ($62 million recovery), particularly in drafting the appellate briefs which led to the seminal New York Appellate Division opinion, reported at 56 A.D.3d 49 (1st Dept 2008), clarifying the standards of demand futility, and holding that a board of directors loses the protection of the business judgment rule where there is evidence of self-dealing and poor judgment by the directors. He was also a member of the team that litigated the appeal in Tellabs, Inc. v. Makor Issues & Rights, Ltd. before the United States Supreme Court, in which the Supreme Court issued an opinion defining the pleading standard for scienter in all federal securities fraud cases, and is reported at 551 U.S. 308 (2007).
Mr. Kammerman has been selected as a New York Metro Super Lawyer every year from 2014 to the present.
While attending the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, Mr. Kammerman was named an Alexander Fellow, through which he worked as a judicial intern in the chambers of the Honorable Joseph A. Greenaway, Jr., United States District Judge in Newark, New Jersey.
Mr. Kammerman is a member of the bars of the States of New York and New Jersey and is admitted to practice before the United States Courts of Appeals for the Third and Eleventh Circuits and the United States District Courts for the District of New Jersey, Southern and Eastern Districts of New York, and Eastern District of Michigan.
