Alayne Gobeille is of counsel in KSF’s New Orleans office and focuses on shareholder derivative matters and ERISA litigation.

She has been instrumental in helping KSF recover more than $53.35 million in securities fraud cases on behalf of investors, among them: Moradpour v. Velodyne Lidar, Inc., et al., No. 3:21-cv-01486 (N.D. Cal.) ($27.5 million); Khoja v. Orexigen Therapeutics, Inc., et al., No. 3:15-cv-00540 (S.D. Cal.) ($4.8 million); Dougherty v. Esperion Therapeutics, Inc., et al., No. 2:16-cv-10089 (E.D. Mich.) ($18.25 million); In Re Health Insurance Innovations Securities Litigation, No. 8:17-cv-02186 (M.D. Fla.) ($2.8 million). Ms. Gobeille has also been involved in a number of significant derivative cases throughout the country seeking recovery for harmed shareholders and individuals, obtaining seminal decisions in shareholders’ favor. Most recently, her work contributed towards a settlement pending final approval in the In re Exelon Corporation Derivative Litigation, No. 1:21-cv-03611 (N.D. Ill.) with a cash value of $44.25 million recovered for the Company and corporate governance reforms valued at more than $300 million.

Ms. Gobeille completed her undergraduate work at the University of California at Davis, earning a B.S. in Fermentation Science in 2000. She went on to earn a Masters Degree in Natural Resources from Cornell University in 2003. After graduate school, Ms. Gobeille worked as a public health researcher, specializing in environmental epidemiology and occupational health. Ms. Gobeille made the decision to go to law school so that she could better serve the communities she worked with as a scientist. She received her J.D. cum laude from Tulane University Law School in 2011. While at Tulane, Ms. Gobeille was awarded the CALI Award for Academic Excellence in Toxic Torts, was an editor of the Tulane Journal of International and Comparative Law, and received a certificate in Environmental Law.

After law school, Ms. Gobeille worked for a boutique environmental non-profit advocacy organization in Washington D.C. She also served as a law clerk to the Honorable Lawrence J. O’Neill, Chief U.S. District Court Judge for the Eastern District of California, for more than two years. Ms. Gobeille has since returned to Louisiana, where she has worked extensively to protect consumer interests and on environmental matters.