Primary Job Title Partner & Director of Institutional Relations Primary Organization 
Kessler Topaz Meltzer & Check
Location Wayne, Pennsylvania, United States Regions Greater Philadelphia Area, Great Lakes, Northeastern US Gender Male Also Known As DARREN J. CHECK
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DARREN J. CHECK, a partner of the Firm, concentrates his practice in the area of shareholder litigation and client relations. Mr. Check manages the Firm’s Portfolio Monitoring Department and works closely with the Firm’s Case Evaluation Department.
Currently, Mr. Check consults with institutional investors from around the world with regard to
their investment rights and responsibilities. He currently works with clients in the United States, Canada, the Netherlands, Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Finland, United Kingdom, Italy, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, France, and Australia.
Mr. Check assists Firm clients in evaluating and analyzing opportunities to take an active role in shareholder litigation, arbitration, and other loss recovery methods. This includes U.S. based litigation and arbitration, as well as an increasing number of cases from jurisdictions around the globe. With an increasingly complex investment and legal landscape, Mr. Check has experience advising on traditional class actions, direct actions, non-U.S. opt-in actions, fiduciary actions, and arbitrations to name a few. Mr. Check is frequently called upon by his clients to help ensure they are taking an active role when their involvement can make a difference, and that they are not leaving money on the table.
Mr. Check regularly speaks on the subjects of shareholder litigation, corporate governance, investor activism, and recovery of investment losses at conferences around the world.
Mr. Check has also been actively involved in the precedent setting Shell settlement in the Netherlands, direct actions against BP, Vivendi, and Merck, and securities class actions against Bank of America, Lehman Brothers, Royal Bank of Scotland (U.K.), and Hewlett-Packard. Currently Mr. Check represents investors in numerous high profile actions in the United States, the Netherlands, Canada, France, Japan, and the United Kingdom.
