Cross Border Competition & Securities Litigation

Andrew Hlohinec Morganti founded Morganti & Co. He grew up in metro Detroit, State of Michigan, with close ties to the European and Middle Eastern communities. In his early days to self-finance his education, he worked in a factory manufacturing automotive parts and was a member of the Union, and as a commercial painter.  

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Andrew attended the University of Michigan, B.A., Michigan State University School of Law, J.D., and Boston University School of Law, LL.M. in International Banking & Financial Laws. He is licensed to practice law in Michigan, New York, Washington, D.C., and the province of Ontario, Canada.                        

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His legal career started clerking at the Department of Justice Canada (Competition and Tariff issues) and at the U.S. Federal Reserve Bank of Boston (AML and M&A issues). In 1999, Andrew joined a boutique plaintiff litigation firm focused on antitrust, commodity, and securities litigation. In 2003, he went on to work in New York, New York, to associate with one of the most prominent and successful securities class action firms where he focused a majority of his practice representing clients who opted out of securities class actions and served as a member of one of the most complex securities class actions involving the initial public offerings of technology companies (the Dot.com Bubble) known as In re IPO Sec. Litig.  In 2009, he transferred his legal career from Manhattan to Toronto, Ontario.  Most recently, Andrew settled the securities class action against Wayland Group Corp., a Canadian cannabis company, and obtained a $53 million default judgment against its former Chief Executive Officer, Benjamin A. Ward.

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Morganti & Co. was founded in 2012, specializing in cross-border antitrust and securities class actions on a contingent fee basis. By 2017, the firm was named as one of the top fifty plaintiff securities class action firms by Institutional Shareholder Services ("ISS") and continued that ranking through 2021 and, jointly with his former partner, in 2023.  In 2026, Andrew opened a Washington, D.C. office for Morganti & Co.

 

Andrew has been involved in some of Canada's most important cross-border securities class actions and court decisions. He has direct experience representing clients in disputes relating to capital markets, and investment frauds within the cannabis, energy and oil investments, mining, and the technology industries.  He has also been a guest speaker and supporter of the University of Michigan School of Law, McGill University Faculty of Law, and Osgoode Hall Law School. 

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Morganti & Co. has offices in Metro Detroit and Washington, D.C.  In Canada, Andrew is associated with a leading trial and appellate law firm specializing in civil fraud claims located within the heart of Toronto's financial district.