SHAREHOLDER ALERT: Brower Piven Encourages Investors Who Have Losses in Excess of $100,000 From Investment in Altair Nanotechnologies, Inc. to Contact Brower Piven Before the November 25, 2014 Lead Plaintiff Deadline in Class Action Lawsuit -- ALTI


STEVENSON, Md., Sept. 29, 2014 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The securities litigation law firm of Brower Piven, A Professional Corporation, announces that a class action lawsuit has been commenced in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York on behalf of purchasers of Altair Nanotechnologies, Inc. ("Altair" or the "Company") (Pink Sheets:ALTI) securities during the period between May 15, 2013 and September 4, 2014, inclusive (the "Class Period") and informs investors who wish to become proactively involved in the litigation that they have until November 25, 2014 to seek appointment as lead plaintiff.

If you have suffered a loss from investment in Altair securities purchased on or after May 15, 2013 and held through the revelation of negative information during and/or at the end of the Class Period, as described below, and would like to learn more about this lawsuit and your ability to participate as a lead plaintiff, without cost or obligation to you, please visit our website at http://www.browerpiven.com/currentsecuritiescases.html. You may also request more information by contacting Brower Piven either by email at hoffman@browerpiven.com or by telephone at (410) 415-6616. No class has yet been certified in the above action. Members of the Class will be represented by the lead plaintiff and counsel chosen by the lead plaintiff.

If you wish to choose counsel to represent you and the Class, you must apply to be appointed lead plaintiff and be selected by the Court. The lead plaintiff will direct the litigation and participate in important decisions including whether to accept a settlement and how much of a settlement to accept for the Class in the action. The lead plaintiff will be selected from among applicants claiming the largest loss from investment in Company units during the Class Period. Brower Piven also encourages anyone with information regarding the Company's conduct during the period in question to contact the firm, including whistleblowers, former employees, shareholders and others.

The complaint accuses the defendants of violations of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 by virtue of the defendants' failure to disclose during the Class Period that the Company was experiencing significant executive management and accounting level turnover in 2013 which led to a lack of segregation of duties throughout the Company and resulted in a lack of controls to perform a timely review of transactions at an appropriate level of precision. According to the complaint, following the Company's September 4, 2014 announcement that on August 28, 2014, Crowe Horwath LLP, resigned as the Company's independent registered public accounting firm due to its inability to complete the audit of the Company's financial statements for the year ended 2013 in part due to its inability to perform sufficient procedures to determine the completeness of reporting of subsequent events transactions that may have occurred in China, the value of Altair's shares declined significantly.

On this news, NASDAQ halted Altair's shares during the trading day on September 4, 2014 at $4.30 per share. Shares of Altair resumed trading on September 24, 2014, and as a result of this news, immediately fell $3.35 per share, a drop of nearly 78% from the halted price of $4.30 on September 4, 2014, to close at $0.95 on September 24, 2014.

Attorneys at Brower Piven have extensive experience in litigating securities and other class action cases and have been advocating for the rights of shareholders since the 1980s. If you choose to retain counsel, you may retain Brower Piven without financial obligation or cost to you, or you may retain other counsel of your choice. You need take no action at this time to be a member of the class.



            

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