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Akin Offices
ONE BRYANT PARK
NEW YORK, NY 10036
NEW YORK
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Michael Asaro
Work Department
Partner; Disputes & Investigations
Position
Michael A. Asaro is co-head of Akin’s white collar defense and global investigations practice group. He focuses on U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) investigations, white-collar criminal defense, corporate internal investigations and complex commercial litigation. Michael has extensive litigation and investigatory experience involving matters arising under the federal securities laws, including insider trading, market manipulation, accounting irregularities, Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) violations, and broker-dealer and investment advisor regulation.
To learn more about Michael, please visit his full profile: https://www.akingump.com/en/lawyers-advisors/michael-a-asaro.html
Career
Served for five years as a federal prosecutor and four years as an enforcement attorney at the SEC.
Education
J.D., magna cum laude, Brooklyn Law School, editor-in-chief, Brooklyn Journal of International Law. B.S., Boston University.
Lawyer Rankings
United States > Dispute resolution > Corporate investigations and white-collar criminal defense
Akin‘s team stands out for advising financial institutions and professionals from the financial sector in matters pertaining to issues such as insider trading and market manipulation. Under the leadership of James Benjamin and Michael Asaro in New York as well as Washington DC-based Charles Connolly, the practice has extensive experience defending corporates and individuals alike before governmental bodies and enforcement agencies. Cross-border work and FCPA-related cases are further areas of expertise for the team, which counts first director of the Division of Enforcement for the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board Claudius Modesti, active in the firm’s DC office, among its key members.
Lawyer Rankings
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- International Trade > Customs, export controls and economic sanctions
- Government > Government relations
- Finance > Structured finance: securitization
- 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
- Media, technology and telecoms > Media and entertainment: transactional
- Industry focus > Native American law
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Shareholder activism
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Corporate governance
- Government > Government contracts
- Labor and employment > Labor and employment disputes (including collective actions)
- Investment fund formation and management > Private equity funds (including venture capital)
- Energy > Renewable/alternative power
- Dispute resolution > Securities litigation: defense
- Labor and employment > Workplace and employment counseling
- 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
- Antitrust > Merger control
- Intellectual property > Patents: litigation (International Trade Commission)
- Industry focus > Sport
- Media, technology and telecoms > Telecoms and broadcast: regulatory
- Antitrust > Civil litigation/class actions: defense
- Intellectual property > Patents: litigation (full coverage)
- Real estate > Real estate
- Tax > US taxes: non-contentious
- M&A/corporate and commercial > M&A: large deals ($1bn+)
- Dispute resolution > Appellate: courts of appeals / Appellate: supreme courts (states and federal)
- Finance > Commercial lending
- Dispute resolution > Corporate investigations and white-collar criminal defense
- Finance > Structured finance: securitization