Pamela A. Markert

Attorney At Law

• location San Francisco, California
• phone 415-977-2228
• fax 415-777-5189

• email pmarkert@cerallp.com
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Ms. Markert specializes in securities class action and complex multidistrict antitrust class action litigation. She also has experience in business, consumer and general liability matters representing clients ranging from individuals, partnerships and closely-held corporations to multinational companies. Cases in which Ms. Markert has played a key role include:

• Sonus Networks, Inc. Securities Litigation (D.Mass.)
  Recovered $40 million for shareholders in securities fraud action arising from false statements and omissions allegedly contained in company’s publicly issued financial statements.
• BearingPoint, Inc., Securities Litigation (E.D.Va.)
  Recovered $7.5 million for shareholders in a securities fraud action arising from false statements and omissions allegedly contained in company’s publicly issued financial statements and after the subsequent bankruptcy and liquidation of the company.
• Gianzero v. Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. et.al. (D.Colo.)
  Obtained $8 million settlement involving Wal-Mart Stores, Inc., Claims Management, Inc., Concentra Health Services, Inc., and American Home Assurance Co. Claims arose from alleged dictation of medical care and treatment of Wal-Mart and Sam’s Club employees who suffered workplace injuries and submitted workers’ compensation claims in Colorado. Settlement also includes four-year injunction against Wal-Mart and CMI, and programmatic relief of four years duration as to Concentra.
• Feyko v. Yuhe International Inc., et al. (C.D.Cal.)
  Recovered $2.7 million for shareholders in a securities fraud action arising from false statements and omissions allegedly contained in company’s publicly issued financial statements. Defendants included a company headquartered in the People’s Republic of China and three of its officers; the company’s independent auditor and three underwriters of its stock offering.

Ms. Markert has worked, or continues to work, on a number of antitrust and securities fraud cases including: Mazzafero v. Aruba Networks, Inc., et al.; In re Bearings Direct Purchaser Antitrust Litigation; In re Municipal Derivatives Antitrust Litigation; In re Processed Egg Products Antitrust Litigation; and In re Plasma-Derivative Protein Therapies Antitrust Litigation.

Prior to her career in law, Ms. Markert worked at SunGard Financial Systems, Inc. providing technical direction to clients for a comprehensive investment accounting and portfolio management system for client portfolios totaling more than $27 billion. While at SunGard, she spent a year in Washington D.C. providing on-site client support for the capital markets division of the Resolution Trust Corporation.

Ms. Markert received a B.S. in Business Administration, Finance cum laude from California State University, Northridge, and a J.D. from Santa Clara University School of Law. She was an Articles Editor of the Santa Clara Law Review and her comment was published. Ms. Markert was honored as an Emery Academic Scholarship recipient at Santa Clara.

Ms. Markert is admitted to practice in the State of California, United States District Court for the Northern District of California, United States District Court for the Central District of California, United States District Court for the District of Colorado, Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals and the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals.

Ms. Markert is a member of Queen’s Bench Bar Association of the San Francisco Bay Area since 2000. She served as a Director from September 2008 through 2009, and chaired the Bylaws Committee from 2008 through 2011.