Arnold & Porter LLP's securities enforcement and litigation practice is international in scope. The more than 60 lawyers in our various offices who practice in this area have decades of experience and include former members of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) staff, senior officials in the US Department of Justice and assistant US attorneys, and other lawyers who have litigated precedent-setting securities matters. Together they carry forward a tradition of excellence in securities enforcement representation that dates to the founding of our practice by the author of SEC Rule 10b-5.
We regularly represent public companies and their subsidiaries, accounting firms, broker-dealers, hedge funds, investment advisory firms, investment banks and other financial institutions, law firms, and mutual funds, as well as directors, officers, partners, principals, and employees of such entities, in a wide variety of proceedings, including investigations by the SEC and self-regulatory organizations (including FINRA); class action securities litigation, shareholder derivative litigation, and other civil and criminal litigation involving allegations of fraud, accounting irregularities, improper disclosure, misrepresentations and omissions, breach of fiduciary duty, recklessness, negligence, or mismanagement; criminal investigations; congressional investigations; internal investigations; and proceedings before professional licensing and regulatory authorities.
Arnold & Porter's experience in this area is reflected by our representation of clients in recent significant matters involving Adelphia, AOL, Enron, Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, Halliburton, the IPO securities litigation, Mills Corporation, the Mutual Fund Investment Litigation, Qwest Communications, Royal Ahold, WorldCom, and Xerox. We also represent clients in many other important investigations where our representation is not a matter of public record, including several pending investigations and proceedings relating to stock option grants. Our matters have involved companies in virtually every sector of the economy.
Several of our partners have been recognized as leading lawyers in the fields of securities enforcement and litigation and complex business litigation. A full listing of published recognition of Arnold & Porter's practices and partners is available.