Practice Areas
Shareholder Derivative Litigation
Education
Pepperdine University–Strauss Institute for Dispute Resolution (M.D.R. 2000)
Pepperdine University School of Law (J.D. 2000)
Pepperdine University Graziadio School of Business (M.B.A. 1997)
American University (B.S. & B.A. 1989)
Bar Admissions
California
Court Admissions
U.S. District Courts for the Northern, Eastern, Central, and Southern Districts of California
U.S. Supreme Court
Publications
Michele R. Fron & Kelly M. McIntyre, Sanctions in Arbitration, 1264 PLI/Corp 1143, 1145, 1151 (2001).
Contact
Phone: (619) 398-4366
E-mail:
Kelly M. McIntyre
Associate
Kelly M. McIntyre dedicates her practice to litigating complex class actions with an emphasis on corporate mergers and acquisitions and shareholder derivative actions. She represents shareholders of companies whose shares are being acquired through mergers, acquisitions, tender offers, and other change-in-control transactions. Ms. McIntyre also represents shareholder clients derivatively when they seek to hold the company's officers and directors liable for corporate malfeasance. Ms. McIntyre has litigated cases involving insider trading, stock option backdating, and accounting restatements, and has represented clients in insurance, pharmaceutical, health care, and financial industries.
Ms. McIntyre has been part of various "deal" class action teams that achieved substantial benefits to the class, such as additional disclosures in solicitation materials. She has also helped achieve monetary recovery and corporate governance reform for clients and companies through shareholder derivative litigation. For example, in In re Ligand Pharmaceuticals, Inc. Derivative Litigation, No. GIC834255 (Cal. Super. Ct.-San Diego Oct. 12, 2006), Ms. McIntyre was part of the litigation team that obtained a $14 million payment to the company and secured meaningful corporate governance changes. Ms. McIntyre has broad experience in all aspects of litigation, including discovery and arguing motions in court. In addition, she has helped to negotiate compromises in corporate governance reforms, mediate settlements, and secure court approval of settlements.
Prior to joining Robbins Umeda LLP, Ms. McIntyre represented major brokerage firms and brokers in customer disputes. Before she attended business and law school, Ms. McIntyre worked as an auditor for Deloitte & Touche.
Ms. McIntyre simultaneously obtained her Juris Doctor degree and her Master of Dispute Resolution at Pepperdine University, where she received a competitive fellowship and mediated cases in the California Superior Courts. During law school, Ms. McIntyre also interned at the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD) in Los Angeles, California. Ms. McIntyre earned her Master of Business Administration degree with a dual concentration in finance and marketing from Pepperdine University, and earned her Bachelor of Science and Bachelor of Arts degree in Accounting from American University.
