Page Perry Adds Another Experienced Securities Lawyer, James Evangelista, As Partner
Page Perry, LLC announced today that James M. Evangelista, a nationally known securities and consumer fraud class action and business tort litigation practitioner, had joined the firm as a partner. Mr. Evangelista has over seventeen years of diverse, hands-on, complex commercial and class action litigation experience representing both plaintiffs and defendants in federal and state courts around the United States.
Evangelista was the managing Member of the Atlanta office of Motley Rice LLC and one of its most experienced securities and complex litigation practitioners. Previously, Mr. Evangelista was a partner at Chitwood Harley Harnes LLP, an Atlanta plaintiffs’ securities fraud litigation boutique, after practicing over a decade with Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom LLP and LeBoeuf, Lamb Greene & MacRae LLP.
During his career as a plaintiffs’ attorney, Mr. Evangelista has helped investors and other clients recover over $100 million in losses from securities fraud and other wrongdoing, has fought procedurally and financially unfair acquisitions of public companies and has challenged breaches of fiduciary duty by corporate management and boards of directors. Mr. Evangelista has represented institutional pension funds, corporations and individual investors in securities fraud class action, merger and acquisition, shareholder derivative, and general business tort and commercial litigation matters against public companies such as AT&T, Beazer Homes USA Inc., BellSouth Corp., Cingular Wireless, Coca Cola Enterprises, Inc., Dell Inc., Mirant Corp., New York Community Bankcorp, Spectrum Brands Inc., Verizon, Vonage Holdings Corp., and Washington Mutual Bank.
On the defense side, Mr. Evangelista assisted a substantial number of Fortune 100 and other corporate clients in high profile class action matters and internal corporate investigations including the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company in the Insurance Sales Practices Litigation, Aventis CropScience/Bayer CropScience in the StarLink™ Corn Litigation, and Compaq Computer Company in the Floppy Disk Controller Litigation. Mr. Evangelista also participated in the Independent Counsel's investigation of the United States Justice Department's prosecution of Banca Nazionale del Lavoro for illegal loans to the Government of Iraq (the "Iraqgate Scandal"), the Independent Administrator’s court appointed oversight of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, and in a number of internal corporate investigations.
Boyd Page, senior partner of Page Perry LLC, stated “Jim will be a terrific addition to our firm. His extensive experience investigating corporate wrongdoing and representing both plaintiffs and defendants in complex, financial and fraud-related class and individual litigation will enable us to expand our representation of institutional and individual investors, either on a class basis or otherwise. Indeed, his experience will mesh particularly well with our extensive current efforts to recover investor assets lost due to the subprime mortgage and collateralized debt/mortgage obligation crisis.”
Alan Perry, Page Perry’s other name partner and a former colleague of Mr. Evangelista’s at the Chitwood Harley firm, commented “It will be a pleasure working with Jim Evangelista again. Mr. Evangelista brings with him a strong desire to protect those who have been injured by fraud and greed and to speak out for those who may not otherwise be heard.”
Commenting on his addition to the firm, Mr. Evangelista stated “I am thrilled to advance my securities fraud, class action, and business litigation practice at Page Perry. The firm has an outstanding group of extremely competent, experienced and ethical attorneys that provide a solid platform to prosecute securities fraud and other consumer class litigation. This firm has the breadth, depth and expertise investors should expect in seeking recovery of their losses due to fraud.”
Evangelista earned his B.A. in Economics and Political Science from Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey, in 1988 and his J.D. from Rutgers University School of Law, in Camden, New Jersey, in 1991, where he was Articles Editor of the school’s Law Review and a recipient of its International Law Honors Program Award. Evangelista is admitted to the United States Court of Appeals for the First, Second, Eighth, Ninth and Eleventh Circuits; the United States District Courts for the Northern District of Georgia, Southern and Eastern Districts of New York, and the District of New Jersey; and the State Bars of Georgia, New York, New Jersey, Colorado and the District of Columbia.
Evangelista was the managing Member of the Atlanta office of Motley Rice LLC and one of its most experienced securities and complex litigation practitioners. Previously, Mr. Evangelista was a partner at Chitwood Harley Harnes LLP, an Atlanta plaintiffs’ securities fraud litigation boutique, after practicing over a decade with Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom LLP and LeBoeuf, Lamb Greene & MacRae LLP.
During his career as a plaintiffs’ attorney, Mr. Evangelista has helped investors and other clients recover over $100 million in losses from securities fraud and other wrongdoing, has fought procedurally and financially unfair acquisitions of public companies and has challenged breaches of fiduciary duty by corporate management and boards of directors. Mr. Evangelista has represented institutional pension funds, corporations and individual investors in securities fraud class action, merger and acquisition, shareholder derivative, and general business tort and commercial litigation matters against public companies such as AT&T, Beazer Homes USA Inc., BellSouth Corp., Cingular Wireless, Coca Cola Enterprises, Inc., Dell Inc., Mirant Corp., New York Community Bankcorp, Spectrum Brands Inc., Verizon, Vonage Holdings Corp., and Washington Mutual Bank.
On the defense side, Mr. Evangelista assisted a substantial number of Fortune 100 and other corporate clients in high profile class action matters and internal corporate investigations including the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company in the Insurance Sales Practices Litigation, Aventis CropScience/Bayer CropScience in the StarLink™ Corn Litigation, and Compaq Computer Company in the Floppy Disk Controller Litigation. Mr. Evangelista also participated in the Independent Counsel's investigation of the United States Justice Department's prosecution of Banca Nazionale del Lavoro for illegal loans to the Government of Iraq (the "Iraqgate Scandal"), the Independent Administrator’s court appointed oversight of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, and in a number of internal corporate investigations.
Boyd Page, senior partner of Page Perry LLC, stated “Jim will be a terrific addition to our firm. His extensive experience investigating corporate wrongdoing and representing both plaintiffs and defendants in complex, financial and fraud-related class and individual litigation will enable us to expand our representation of institutional and individual investors, either on a class basis or otherwise. Indeed, his experience will mesh particularly well with our extensive current efforts to recover investor assets lost due to the subprime mortgage and collateralized debt/mortgage obligation crisis.”
Alan Perry, Page Perry’s other name partner and a former colleague of Mr. Evangelista’s at the Chitwood Harley firm, commented “It will be a pleasure working with Jim Evangelista again. Mr. Evangelista brings with him a strong desire to protect those who have been injured by fraud and greed and to speak out for those who may not otherwise be heard.”
Commenting on his addition to the firm, Mr. Evangelista stated “I am thrilled to advance my securities fraud, class action, and business litigation practice at Page Perry. The firm has an outstanding group of extremely competent, experienced and ethical attorneys that provide a solid platform to prosecute securities fraud and other consumer class litigation. This firm has the breadth, depth and expertise investors should expect in seeking recovery of their losses due to fraud.”
Evangelista earned his B.A. in Economics and Political Science from Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey, in 1988 and his J.D. from Rutgers University School of Law, in Camden, New Jersey, in 1991, where he was Articles Editor of the school’s Law Review and a recipient of its International Law Honors Program Award. Evangelista is admitted to the United States Court of Appeals for the First, Second, Eighth, Ninth and Eleventh Circuits; the United States District Courts for the Northern District of Georgia, Southern and Eastern Districts of New York, and the District of New Jersey; and the State Bars of Georgia, New York, New Jersey, Colorado and the District of Columbia.