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Akin Offices
Robert S. Strauss Tower
2001 K Street, N.W.
Washington, DC 20006-1037
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
United States
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Claudius B. Modesti
Work Department
Partner; Disputes & Investigations
Position
Claudius offers extensive enforcement experience across a broad range of capital market regulatory and corporate governance matters, including representing corporations, accounting and other professional services firms and financial firms before the DOJ, SEC, PCAOB and other regulators. He also conducts internal investigations on behalf of board of directors, audit committees and senior management. Claudius’s practice builds on 25 years of government and regulatory service, including as a DOJ prosecutor, an SEC enforcement attorney and, most recently, as the PCAOB’s first enforcement director. As PCAOB enforcement director, he led investigations of U.S.- and foreign-based accounting firms, many of which involved parallel SEC investigations. He also played a key role in the PCAOB’s collaboration with its foreign audit regulator counterparts.
To learn more about Claudius, please visit his full profile here: https://www.akingump.com/en/lawyers-advisors/claudius-b-modesti.html
Career
Director, Public Company Accounting Oversight Board Division of Enforcement and Investigations; Assistant United States Attorney, U.S. Attorney’s Office, Eastern District of Virginia; Trial Attorney, U.S. Department of Justice Criminal Division, Fraud Section; Attorney, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission Division of Enforcement; Law Clerk, Honorable J. Frederick Motz, U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland
Memberships
Co-Chair, ABA Accountants’ Liability Subcommittee, Professional Services Liability Litigation Committee; SEC Historical Society, Board of Advisors
Education
J.D., Georgetown University Law Center, magna cum laude, 1991; B.S., Georgetown University, 1986
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- International trade > Customs, export controls and economic sanctions
- Government > Government relations
- Finance > Restructuring (including bankruptcy): corporate
- International trade > Trade remedies and trade policy
Firm Rankings
- Investment fund formation and management > Alternative/hedge funds
- Media, technology and telecoms > Cyber law (including data privacy and data protection)
- Industry focus > Education
- Energy > Energy transactions: oil and gas
- M&A/corporate and commercial > M&A: middle-market ($500m-999m)
- Media, technology and telecoms > Media and entertainment: transactional
- Industry focus > Native American law
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Corporate governance
- Government > Government contracts
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Private equity buyouts: middle-market (Up to $500m)
- Investment fund formation and management > Private equity funds (including venture capital)
- Energy > Renewable/alternative power
- Dispute resolution > Securities litigation: defense
- Finance > Capital markets: debt offerings
- Finance > Capital markets: high-yield debt offerings
- International trade > CFIUS
- Energy > Energy transactions: electric power
- Environment > Environment: transactional
- Dispute resolution > General commercial disputes
- Labor and employment > Labor and employment disputes (including collective actions)
- Antitrust > Merger control
- Intellectual property > Patents: litigation (International Trade Commission)
- Finance > Project finance
- Media, technology and telecoms > Telecoms and broadcast: regulatory
- Tax > US taxes: non-contentious
- Labor and employment > Workplace and employment counseling
- Healthcare > Life sciences
- Intellectual property > Patents: litigation (full coverage)
- Real estate > Real estate
- Industry focus > Sport
- Dispute resolution > Appellate: courts of appeals / Appellate: supreme courts (states and federal)
- Finance > Commercial lending
- Dispute resolution > Corporate investigations and white-collar criminal defense
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Shareholder activism