Christopher H. Lyons

Christopher Lyons is a partner in Robbins Geller Rudman & Dowd LLP’s Nashville and Wilmington offices, and manages the Wilmington office. He focuses his practice on representing institutional and individual investors in merger-related class action litigation and in complex securities litigation.

Chris has been a significant part of litigation teams that have achieved substantial recoveries for investors. Notable Delaware cases that Chris has co-led include Bioverativ (Goldstein v. Denner) ($84 million partial settlement, plus another $40 million pending court approval), Good Technology ($52 million – about 1.5 times the consideration paid to common stockholders in the challenged private-company merger), Blackhawk Network Holdings ($29.5 million), and The Fresh Market (Morrison v. Berry) ($27.5 million recovered). Chris has also been part of teams litigating federal securities cases that led to substantial recoveries, including Envision ($177.5 million), CoreCivic (Grae v. Corrections Corporation of America) ($56 million recovered), and Nissan ($36 million). His pro bono work includes representing individuals who are appealing denial of necessary medical benefits by TennCare (Tennessee’s Medicaid program), through the Tennessee Justice Center.

Both during and before his time at Robbins Geller, Chris has litigated extensively in Delaware courts, having tried cases on behalf of both plaintiffs and defendants in the Delaware Court of Chancery. Before joining Robbins Geller, Chris practiced at a prominent Delaware law firm, where he mostly represented corporate officers and directors defending against breach of fiduciary duty claims in the Delaware Court of Chancery and in the Delaware Supreme Court. Before that, he clerked for Vice Chancellor J. Travis Laster of the Delaware Court of Chancery. Chris now applies the expertise he gained from those experiences to help investors uncover wrongful conduct and recover the money and other remedies to which they are rightfully entitled.

Chris has been selected by Super Lawyers Magazine as a Rising Star, named to the Best Lawyers in America: Ones to Watch list by Best Lawyers®, named a Leading Plaintiff Financial Lawyer by Lawdragon, and named a Recommended Lawyer by The Legal 500. He has also been named to the Benchmark Litigation 40 & Under List and has been included in the 500 X - The Next Generation Lawdragon guide. Chris earned his Bachelor of Arts degree from Colorado College, with Distinction in International Political Economy and a minor in Asian Studies. Chris earned his Juris Doctor degree from Vanderbilt University Law School, where he served on the Vanderbilt Law Review and presented briefing and argument to the United States Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces as part of the Appellate Litigation Clinic.

• Recommended Lawyer, The Legal 500, 2024
• 40 & Under List, Benchmark Litigation, 2023-2024
• Leading Plaintiff Financial Lawyer, Lawdragon, 2024
• Best Lawyer in America: One to Watch, Best Lawyers®, 2022-2024
• Rising Star, Super Lawyers Magazine, 2018-2020, 2022-2023
• 500 X - The Next Generation, Lawdragon, 2023
• 40 & Under Hot List, Benchmark Litigation, 2021

• Vanderbilt University Law School, J.D., 2010, Law & Business Certificate
• Colorado College, B.A., 2006, with Distinction in International Political Economy

• Delaware
• Tennessee
• United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
• United States District Court for the District of Delaware
• United States District Courts for the Eastern, Middle and Western Districts of Tennessee

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