Kyla Grant

Bio

Kyla Grant, Director, has extensive experience in federal securities class action suits, securities enforcement, and complex commercial litigation in both federal and state courts. Since joining Saxena White, Ms. Grant has played a key role on litigation teams that have successfully recovered hundreds of millions of dollars on behalf of injured shareholders in settlements totaling over $600 million. For example, recent notable settlements include:

• In re Wells Fargo & Company Shareholder Litigation ($240 million shareholder derivative settlement – one of the largest shareholder derivative settlements in history – in an action relating to a well-known “fake account” scandal at Wells Fargo);
• Peace Officers’ Annuity and Benefit Fund of Georgia et al. v. DaVita Inc., et al. ($135 million settlement in securities fraud class action involving allegations that DaVita improperly “steered” end-stage kidney patients off of Medicare/Medicaid and into private insurance plans);
• Plymouth County Retirement System v. Patterson Companies, Inc. et al. ($63 million settlement in securities fraud class action – ranking among the top-ten of all such settlements ever achieved in the District of Minnesota – involving alleged price-fixing scheme between Patterson and its main competitors in the dental supply industry); and
• In re Perrigo Company plc Securities Litigation ($31.9 million settlement in securities fraud class action regarding Perrigo’s receipt of a nearly $2 billion tax bill from Irish Revenue, and involving significant victories at summary judgment rarely obtained by plaintiffs in a securities fraud case on the key elements of falsity and materiality).

Ms. Grant was also involved in obtaining significant securities fraud class action settlements in cases involving Covetrus, Inc. ($35 million settlement), TrueCar, Inc. ($28.25 settlement), Brixmor Property Group, Inc. ($28 million settlement), and GTT Communications, Inc. ($25 million settlement).

Before joining Saxena White, Ms. Grant practiced securities litigation at two top-ranked global law firms, Shearman & Sterling LLP and WilmerHale.

Ms. Grant graduated from the University of Hawai’i at Mānoa with distinction in 2004, where she received a Bachelor of Arts degree in both English and Political Science. She received her Juris Doctor degree from the University of Virginia School of Law in 2008. While attending law school, she was a recipient of the Dean’s Scholarship, was appointed as a Dillard Fellow (a role in which she worked with first year students to improve their persuasive writing skills), and was an Articles Editor for the Virginia Journal of International Law.