Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, LLP

Avi Perry, a distinguished former federal prosecutor, is a high-stakes trial lawyer, co-Chair of the Firm’s Securities Litigation Group, and co-Chair of the Firm’s Commodities and Derivatives Group. Mr. Perry also is a member of the Firm’s Investigations, Government Enforcement and White Collar Criminal Defense Group.

Mr. Perry’s practice focuses on defending companies and individuals under investigation by federal and state law enforcement authorities and regulators across the United States, counseling FinTech companies, prediction markets, and trading firms on U.S. securities and commodities laws, and providing advice on the design and implementation of effective corporate compliance and surveillance programs.

Mr. Perry has won the dismissal of criminal and civil charges brought by the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), and state securities and banking regulators. His biggest wins include non-public declinations where he persuaded government agencies not to file charges at all. Mr. Perry also regularly defends public companies in securities class actions.

Prior to joining the Firm, Mr. Perry served for nine years as a federal prosecutor at the U.S. Department of Justice, most recently as Chief of the Market Integrity and Major Frauds Unit in the Criminal Division’s Fraud Section. In that role, Mr. Perry supervised 45 white collar prosecutors nationwide and oversaw the Fraud Section’s corporate and individual investigations and prosecutions involving securities, commodities, digital assets, and government procurement fraud. Those cases resulted in convictions of several high-level executives at major international banks, as well as seven corporate resolutions with banks and trading firms totaling over $1.5 billion in fines, forfeiture, and restitution. Mr. Perry also served as a member of the Deputy Attorney General’s Corporate Crime Advisory Group, and has significant experience with the design, implementation, and testing of effective corporate compliance programs, including the use of trade surveillance software and data analytics to identify irregularities.

Mr. Perry speaks regularly at conferences on white collar matters, including digital assets, derivatives, and enforcement trends. He has served as adjunct faculty at Yale Law School and the University of Maine Law School. Mr. Perry previously worked as an associate at a law firm in New York and clerked for the Honorable Kermit V. Lipez, United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit, and the Honorable Mark L. Wolf, United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts.