Mr Julian Rainero > Schulte Roth & Zabel LLP > New York, United States > Lawyer Profile

Schulte Roth & Zabel LLP offers a multidisciplinary group focused on emerging trends, covering regulatory issues affecting private funds and broker-dealers in relation to the creation and implementation of compliance programs and investigations carried out by FINRA and the SEC, respectively; the team places a further emphasis on issues surrounding digital wallet issuers, card associations, bill payment companies, currency exchangers and stablecoin issuers. The leadership team, which is based in New York, is comprised of Craig Warkol and Julian Rainero on the broker-dealer regulatory and enforcement front as well as banking regulatory expert Donald Mosher and investment management regulatory specialist Marc Elovitz.

Drawing expertise from a number of groups, Schulte Roth & Zabel LLP concentrates its efforts towards regulatory investigations and enforcements by government bodies, specifically the SEC. The firm has expanded its crypto funds capacity and recently represented Pantera Capital in a high-stakes dispute with Polychain regarding the application of the corporate opportunity doctrine in the investment fund space. The firm also has a broad focus on investment funds and broker dealer work, including activity such as cryptocurrency investments, insider trading, SPACs and block trading. The team’s cross-practice leadership is comprised of Craig Warkol, co-chair of the securities enforcement and broker dealer regulatory and enforcement groups and Julian Rainero, also co-chair of the latter, in New York, as well as Peter White, co-chair of the litigation and white-collar defense groups and Charles Clark, co-chair of the securities enforcement group, based in Washington DC.