Securities Enforcement and Litigation

Scott Schreiber is chair of Arnold & Porter LLP's Securities Class Action and Derivative Litigation practice, co-chair of the firm's Securities Enforcement and Litigation practice group and manages the international litigation practice.

Mr. Schreiber has served as lead trial counsel to corporations, directors, audit and special litigation committees, officers and outside accountants in many landmark securities and accounting fraud litigations and DOJ and SEC investigations. Representative matters include Enron, Qwest, Peregrine, Royal Ahold/US Foodservice, Halliburton, Xerox, Freddie Mac, Fannie Mae, Refco, and Madoff Investment Securities.

Mr. Schreiber regularly represents issuers, financial institutions, accounting firms, and corporate directors and officers in general civil litigation, securities fraud class actions, shareholder derivative and breach of fiduciary duty litigation, and actions by bankruptcy trustees and audit or special litigation committees. He also represents these clients in connection with regulatory, investigative, enforcement, and criminal matters, especially matters involving the SEC, FINRA, FDIC, OCC, FRB. He frequently advises special board committees in responding to shareholder litigation demands and in litigating such demands. He also focuses on PCAOB representations.

The accusations in these cases have included accounting and financial statement fraud and other asserted misrepresentations or omissions in periodic SEC filings and financial statements and mismanagement. Experienced in a variety of industries, Mr. Schreiber has particular acumen with financial products and the banking, real estate, hospitality, insurance, manufacturing, healthcare, chemical, food and drug, energy, government contracts, telecommunications, and software industries. His practice also includes representing directors and officers of failed banks in defending claims made by the FDIC as receiver.

Mr. Schreiber has also rendered public sector service, having been appointed as Special Counsel to the US Congress, Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee on Civil and Constitutional Rights, and as Special Assistant Counsel to the US Senate Select Committee on Intelligence. He served as Law Clerk to the Hon. William H. Timbers, US Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

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