Alexander L. Burns is an associate in KSF’s Louisiana office, bringing two decades of combined experience in public accounting and hard-fought litigation to KSF.  Over the course of the past ten years, he has been instrumental in helping KSF recover more than $280 million in securities fraud cases on behalf of investors, among them: Dicker v. TuSimple Holdings, Inc., et al., No. 3:22-cv-1300 (S.D. Cal.) ($189 million); 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); Kasper v. AAC Holdings, Inc., et al., No. 3:15-cv-923 (M.D. Tenn.) ($25 million); and In re Eletrobras Securities Litigation, No. 1:15-cv-5754 (S.D.N.Y.) ($14.75 million).  His current practice primarily focuses on shareholder rights and corporate governance reforms.  As a member of the firm’s analytics group, he also provides damages analyses for the firm’s retail and institutional investor clients.

Mr. Burns holds a bachelor’s degree in accounting and a Master of Professional Accountancy from the University of Southern Mississippi and has been a licensed certified public accountant since 2003.  As an auditor with a prestigious Big Four accounting firm, between 2001 and 2004 Mr. Burns audited the financial statements and regulatory compliance practices for a variety of companies, including casino gaming, health care, insurance, and energy.  Following the Enron scandal, and anticipating the need for attorneys with a strong understanding of accounting issues, Mr. Burns pursued his law degree at Louisiana State University’s Paul M. Hebert Law Center, where he was awarded the CALI Award for Academic Excellence in Contracts, served as Treasurer of the Trial Advocacy Board, held an externship with the Special Investigations Division of the East Baton Rouge Parish District Attorney’s office, and competed on various interschool mock trial teams.  He graduated in 2007.

Mr. Burns is a licensed Certified Public Accountant in Louisiana.  As an attorney, he is admitted to practice in Louisiana, the related Federal District Courts, the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan, the United States Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, and the United States Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals.