Mr Christopher Garcia > Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP > New York, United States > Lawyer Profile
Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP Offices
767 5TH AVENUE
NEW YORK, NY 10153
NEW YORK
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Mr Christopher Garcia
Position
Co-Head of Weil’s White Collar Defense, Regulatory and Investigations practice
Career
Christopher Garcia is Co-Head of Weil’s White Collar Defense, Regulatory and Investigations practice. He focuses on defending companies and individuals in connection with regulatory and criminal investigations, conducting internal investigations, and litigating securities class actions in state and federal courts across the U.S. He also counsels boards of directors, executives, broker-dealers, and investment advisers on securities and corporate governance issues, and regulatory compliance, among other things.
Christopher was previously the Chief of the Securities and Commodities Fraud Task Force in the US Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York. In this role, he led a unit of more than 35 prosecutors, law enforcement agents, and staff in all aspects of securities fraud investigations, trials, appeals, and other litigations. He supervised the investigation and prosecution of more than 300 cases, including matters arising out of the 2008 financial crisis and in areas of corporate fraud, consumer fraud, insider trading, fraudulent investment schemes, and the FCPA.
Education
Harvard College (B.A.); Harvard Law School (J.D.)
Lawyer Rankings
United States > Dispute resolution > Financial services litigation
Latham & Watkins LLP is active across the financial services landscape, servicing a variety of clients including commercial and investment banks, hedge funds, fintech and digital trading companies, and accounting firms. A number of practitioners at the firm have served in the DOJ and the SEC, offering a deep bench of expertise in the area of regulatory investigations and enforcement. The practice is further supported by the firm’s broad expertise in the financial regulatory space, which has recently expanded across key locations such as Hong Kong and London. This is underscored by expansion in the financial services litigation practice in September 2022, with Christopher Garcia and Raquel Kellert joining the firm from Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP, in addition to Marissa Alter-Nelson and John V.H. Pierce (who arrived in June) joining from Sidley Austin LLP and WilmerHale respectively. The practice is led by Andrew Clubok, Douglas Yatter and Joseph Serino, based in New York. Richard Owens , also in New York, is regarded for his expertise in white collar investigations and defense and Heather Waller, in Chicago, focuses her practice on investigations by the SEC, DOJ and state securities regulators, with experience in the oil and gas, industrial and financial services and asset management sectors.
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Corporate governance
- Labor and employment > Employee benefits, executive compensation and retirement plans: transactional
- Environment > Environment: transactional
- Dispute resolution > General commercial disputes
- Dispute resolution > Leading trial lawyers
- Dispute resolution > Leading trial lawyers
- Dispute resolution > M&A litigation: defense
- M&A/corporate and commercial > M&A: large deals ($1bn+)
- Antitrust > Merger control
- Intellectual property > Patents: licensing
- Finance > Restructuring (including bankruptcy): corporate
- Dispute resolution > Securities litigation: defense
- Media, technology and telecoms > Technology transactions
- Tax > US taxes: non-contentious
Firm Rankings
- Media, technology and telecoms > Advertising and marketing: litigation
- Finance > Capital markets: equity offerings
- Intellectual property > Copyright
- Tax > Financial products
- Tax > International tax
- Labor and employment > Labor and employment disputes (including collective actions)
- Media, technology and telecoms > Media and entertainment: litigation
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Private equity buyouts: large deals ($500m+)
- Dispute resolution > Product liability, mass tort and class action - defense: consumer products (including tobacco)
- Dispute resolution > Product liability, mass tort and class action - defense: toxic tort
- Real estate > Real estate investment trusts (REITs)
- Finance > Structured finance: securitization
- Intellectual property > Trade secrets (litigation and non-contentious matters)
- Labor and employment > Workplace and employment counseling
- Finance > Capital markets: high-yield debt offerings
- Antitrust > Civil litigation/class actions: defense
- Energy > Energy transactions: oil and gas
- Healthcare > Life sciences
- Intellectual property > Patents: litigation (full coverage)
- Investment fund formation and management > Private equity funds (including venture capital)
- Dispute resolution > Product liability, mass tort and class action - defense: pharmaceuticals and medical devices
- Real estate > Real estate
- Industry focus > Sport
- Media, technology and telecoms > Telecoms and broadcast: transactions
- Intellectual property > Trademarks: litigation
- Media, technology and telecoms > Media and entertainment: transactional
- Dispute resolution > Leading trial lawyers
- Dispute resolution > Appellate: courts of appeals / Appellate: supreme courts (states and federal)
- Finance > Capital markets: debt offerings
- Finance > Commercial lending
- Dispute resolution > Corporate investigations and white-collar criminal defense