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Randall Bodner

Work Department
Securities Litigation
Position
Partner, Member of the Policy Committee
Randy, who is a member of Ropes & Gray’s governing Policy Committee and former head of the firm’s business and securities litigation practice group, focuses on securities litigation, corporate governance matters, deal-related litigation, contentious insolvency litigation, securities enforcement matters, D&O insurance coverage, and other complex commercial disputes. Called “an engaged, passionate advocate of superior creativity” by Chambers USA, Randy has considerable experience in both the courtroom and the boardroom from his successful representations of corporations, financial services companies, private equity clients, hedge funds and individual officers and directors in corporate and securities disputes across the country. Randy has also conducted numerous internal investigations for clients involving highly sensitive matters, successfully defended against investigations and threatened actions by the SEC, DOJ and other government agencies, and guided companies through grand jury investigations to avoid criminal prosecution.
Career
Prior to joining Ropes & Gray, Randy served as an Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, where his notable successes included convictions in the six-month trial of high-ranking members of the Medellin Cocaine Cartel as well as the two-month trial of the acting boss and other members of the Luchese Organized Crime Family of La Cosa Nostra.
Education
- JD, magna cum laude, Harvard Law School, 1985
- BA, summa cum laude, Dartmouth College, 1981; Rufus Choate Scholar; 1981 James Fairbanks Colby, Jr. Government Prize; Phi Beta Kappa; Varsity Lacrosse (Goalie)
Lawyer Rankings
United States > Industry focus > Sport
Akin is highly involved in operational matters for sports leagues and clubs, setting strategies, and is also known for its work on work relating to broadcast rights, including bankruptcy proceedings related to this, as well as assisting clients with gaining broadcast rights. Significantly, the group has bolstered the group’s media rights work with the addition of Randall Boe in New York as senior counsel, who spearheads the group alongside Daniel Nash and Chris Spicer, who are based in Washington DC and Los Angeles respectively.
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Investment fund formation and management > Alternative/hedge funds
- Finance > Commercial lending
- Dispute resolution > E-discovery
- Industry focus > Education
- Labor and employment > Employee benefits, executive compensation and retirement plans: transactional
- Intellectual property > Patents: licensing
- Dispute resolution > Securities litigation: defense
- Healthcare > Life sciences
- Investment fund formation and management > Mutual/registered/exchange-traded funds
- Intellectual property > Patents: licensing
- Tax > Not-for-profit (Fortune 1000 private foundations, national trade associations, and charities)
- Healthcare > Service providers
Firm Rankings
- Finance > Capital markets: equity offerings
- Tax > Not-for-profit (Fortune 1000 private foundations, national trade associations, and charities)
- Intellectual property > Patents: licensing
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Private equity buyouts: large deals ($500m+)
- Investment fund formation and management > Private equity funds (including venture capital)
- Tax > US taxes: non-contentious
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Shareholder activism
- Finance > Capital markets: high-yield debt offerings
- Antitrust > Cartel
- Media, technology and telecoms > Cyber law (including data privacy and data protection)
- M&A/corporate and commercial > M&A: large deals ($1bn+)
- Real estate > Real estate
- Finance > Restructuring (including bankruptcy): corporate
- Dispute resolution > Securities litigation: defense
- Government > State attorneys general
- Finance > Structured finance: derivatives and structured products
- Finance > Structured finance: securitization
- Labor and employment > Workplace and employment counseling
- Finance > Capital markets: high-yield debt offerings
- Dispute resolution > Appellate: courts of appeals / Appellate: supreme courts (states and federal)
- Finance > Fintech
- Antitrust > Merger control
- International trade and national security > National Security
- Intellectual property > Patents: litigation (full coverage)
- Intellectual property > Patents: litigation (International Trade Commission)
- Media, technology and telecoms > Technology transactions
- Antitrust > Civil litigation/class actions: defense
- Finance > Commercial lending > Advice to direct lenders/private credit
- Finance > Commercial lending: Advice to bank lenders
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Venture capital and emerging companies
- Finance > Capital markets: debt offerings
- Dispute resolution > Corporate investigations and white-collar criminal defense
- Finance > Financial services regulation
- International trade and national security > Customs, export controls and economic sanctions