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Oppenheimer fails to overturn $36.7 million arbitration loss

Oppenheimer arbitration

The firm lost the huge arbitration decision, which was decided by a Finra panel, last year to eight investors who were sold a private equity fund by a former Oppenheimer broker, John Woods.

Oppenheimer & Co. Inc. at the end of January failed in its attempt to vacate or overturn in Georgia Superior Court a Finra arbitration panel award last year of $36.7 million.

Oppenheimer lost the huge arbitration decision, decided by a Financial Industry Regulatory Authority Inc. panel, in

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