Michael G Considine > Seward & Kissel LLP > New York, United States > Lawyer Profile
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Michael G Considine
Career
Mike Considine is a partner and co-Head of both the Litigation Department and the Government Enforcement and Internal Investigations Practice Group at the Firm. Prior to entering private practice, Mike served as Deputy Chief of the Long Island Offices of the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of New York, where he supervised various white collar investigations, and conducted numerous criminal trials and appeals.
Mike currently represents companies and individuals in government investigations conducted by the DOJ, SEC and other federal and state investigative agencies. Many involve parallel civil proceedings. The matters arise in diverse industries, ranging from financial services and shipping to pharmaceuticals and manufacturing, and involve alleged violations of securities, antitrust, environmental, corruption, and tax laws. Mike also leads internal investigations in these areas.
Notably, Mike has been selected to serve as a federal monitor on several occasions for corporations that settled government investigations with federal and international agencies. In these engagements, which included an international bank (arising from DOJ’s Enron probe), a large investment advisor (investigated by both DOJ and the SEC) and a healthcare company (investigated by DOJ), Mike reported to the supervising federal agency regarding the company’s compliance with its settlement obligations. At the end of 2021, Mike was selected as the Independent Monitor following an entity’s criminal conviction of environmental offenses. In that capacity, Mike will report to various government agencies, including the EPA and DOJ.
Mike received a B.A., magna cum laude, from Boston College and a J.D. from the Georgetown University Law Center. He served as a judicial law clerk for the Honorable Shirley Wohl Kram in the Southern District of New York.
Mike is presently on the Executive Committee of the Federal Bar Council. He is regularly recognized by his peers and the legal community as a leading lawyer, and has been included in Chambers USA (2021), The Best Lawyers in America, White Collar Criminal Defense (2010-2021), and has been recognized as a Super Lawyer (2006-2021).
A frequent writer and lecturer, he has spoken at numerous conferences and written numerous articles on pertinent legal topics.
Lawyer Rankings
United States > Dispute resolution > Securities litigation: defense
New York firm Seward & Kissel LLP acts for domestic and foreign private issuers, investment advisers, investment funds, prime brokers, underwriters, financial institutions and private investors in a broad range of work that encompasses class actions, derivative claims, market manipulation cases and short swing profit matters. The firm has significant presence in the financial services and public shipping sectors, counting United Overseas Bank and US Bank National Association among its clients. Michael G Considine, who is advising United Overseas Bank on a putative class action concerning alleged manipulation of the Singapore Interbank Offered Rate and Singapore Swap Offer Rate, and Bruce G Paulsen
are the lead partners. Jack Yoskowitz plays an increasingly prominent role in the practice and is currently acting for Tocqueville Management Corporation, its founder and minority shareholder asserts claims of breach of fiduciary duty and unjust enrichment.
United States > Transport > Shipping: litigation and regulation
Fielding a ‘great team with fantastic experience in shipping‘, Seward & Kissel LLP‘s US maritime litigation practice represents major publicly-held and private shipping companies, as well as shipping banks, owners and private equity companies. Acting in litigation, arbitration proceedings and investigations, the firm’s expertise covers disputes arising from shipping financings, securities work and governance issues, along with vessel operations. The team particularly specializes in the coordination of concurrent multi-jurisdictional matters. Co-chair of the firm’s litigation group Bruce G Paulsen handles finance and securities-related disputes in the shipping industry, as well as traditional maritime disputes, lien claims and environmental matters; Paulsen also has substantial expertise in international trade sanctions. Fellow litigation department co-chair Michael G Considine also co-leads the firm’s government enforcement and internal investigations practice. At counsel level, the recent experience of commercial disputes and regulatory investigations specialist Brian Maloney includes successfully defending a vessel owner against corporate veil piercing claims, while associate Laura Miller predominantly focuses on maritime and commercial litigation, government investigations and regulatory inquiries. All attorneys mentioned are based in the firm’s New York office.
Lawyer Rankings
- Shipping: litigation and regulation United States > Transport
- Securities litigation: defense United States > Dispute resolution
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Firm Rankings
- M&A/corporate and commercial > M&A: middle-market (sub-$500m)
- Transport > Shipping: finance
- Transport > Shipping: litigation and regulation
- Investment fund formation and management > Alternative/hedge funds
- Investment fund formation and management > Mutual/registered/exchange-traded funds
- Investment fund formation and management > Private equity funds (including venture capital)
- Dispute resolution > Securities litigation: defense
- Dispute resolution > Corporate investigations and white-collar criminal defense
- Dispute resolution > Financial services litigation
- International Trade > Customs, export controls and economic sanctions