Lankler Siffert & Wohl LLP

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Jillian Berman

Jillian defends individuals and companies in white collar criminal matters, regulatory investigations and enforcement proceedings, internal investigations, and complex commercial litigation. Her client roster includes corporate executives, portfolio managers and finance professionals, law firms, broker-dealers, real estate firms, and other companies. She also advises companies and boards of directors on securities, regulatory issues, and corporate governance issues. Jillian’s matters have spanned securities and commodities fraud (including insider trading, market manipulation, and accounting fraud), antitrust and price fixing, money laundering, asset forfeiture, restitution, bribery, public corruption, election fraud, legal ethics, cryptocurrency, and cyber fraud, among others.Before entering private practice, Jillian served as a federal prosecutor in the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York for nine years, where she tried 10 criminal cases, including a high-profile insider trading case, and argued numerous appeals before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. As a member of the Securities and Commodities Fraud Task Force, Jillian investigated and prosecuted a wide range of federal securities and commodities fraud offenses and coordinated parallel civil enforcement proceedings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, and other regulatory agencies. She also directed white collar investigations and prosecutions related to insider trading, investment advisor fraud, market manipulation, stock loan fraud, Ponzi schemes, and private placement offerings. A frequent speaker on legal issues, Jillian previously served as a lecturer in law at Columbia Law School.

Matthew Coogan

Matt represents entities and individuals in a broad range of business and other civil disputes, white collar criminal and regulatory proceedings, and internal investigations. He regularly handles complex litigation before federal and state trial courts, appellate courts, and arbitral bodies, as well as investigations involving the Department of Justice, the Securities and Exchange Commission, the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, the Office of the New York State Attorney General, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, trading exchanges, and other regulatory and prosecutorial agencies.Matt’s clients—both plaintiffs and defendants—have included corporations, hedge funds, private equity funds, investment and consumer banks, broker-dealers, start-ups, real-estate companies, aviation companies and executives, boards of directors, board committees, non-profit entities, hotels, educational institutions, labor unions, co-op boards, non-governmental organizations, traders, portfolio managers, investment bankers, analysts, corporate directors, officers, and other executives, authors, artists, Broadway and other stage directors, real estate investors and managers, investors, entrepreneurs, law firms, and general counsels. Matt’s clients hail from a wide range of industries, including banking, finance, law, technology, arts and entertainment, aviation, real estate, energy, automotive products, health care, pharma, retail, consumer products, hospitality, government, higher education, and not-for-profit. He is highly experienced in subject areas such as complex financial instruments, copyrights and other intellectual property, defamation, commercial contracts, fraud, corporate governance, antitrust, the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, False Claims Act, insider trading, securities regulation, environmental regulation, bankruptcy, public corruption, campaign finance, and attorney malpractice and misconduct.

Gabrielle Friedman

Gabi represents U.S. and international clients in matters ranging from cross-border criminal investigations and prosecutions to complex civil and regulatory matters, often with an international dimension. She has obtained favorable results for clients in a wide variety of cases, including matters raising issues of corporate and securities fraud, accounting fraud, criminal antitrust law, contract disputes, entertainment and art law, and the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act. Gabi’s practice has a strong focus on pre-indictment advocacy. She has represented clients at trial, in investigations, and in the complex strategic negotiations that accompany a non-litigated resolution of criminal or regulatory charges. She has experience with extradition proceedings in foreign jurisdictions, and has represented clients facing parallel investigations in more than one country. A fluent German speaker who has lived and worked in Germany, Gabi brings a firsthand understanding of European cultural norms and business practices to her work. She has extensive experience representing citizens of foreign countries under investigation by U.S. authorities.

Helen Gredd

Helen has a proven track record of successfully defending executives and financial institutions in regulatory enforcement, white collar criminal, and complex commercial matters. She is a central figure in the New York legal community, having been recognized as a national star in multiple publications. The clients Helen represents range from law firms to international corporations, as well as chief executive officers, chief financial officers, compliance officers, lawyers, public accountants, investment bankers, portfolio managers, analysts, traders, and executives in a wide variety of industries. She brings to bear extensive experience in criminal denfese and regulatory proceedings, including investigations and actions brought by the Department of Justice, the Securities and Exchange Commission, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, the Federal Reserve Board Division of Banking Supervision and Regulation, the Office of the Special Inspector General for the Troubled Asset Relief Program, the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, the New York State Attorney General, and various other federal and state authorities. In her active civil practice, Helen counsels and represents individuals and institutions in matters involving claims of securities fraud, banking and other financial fraud, RICO violations, breach of contract, breach of fiduciary duty, attorney misconduct, and defamation. Clients benefit from Helen’s extensive experience interacting with government authorities. She has seen criminal and regulatory cases from every angle, having served earlier in her career as a senior federal criminal prosecutor as well as Chief Appellate Attorney in the Southern District of New York.

Daniel Reynolds

Individuals and organizations turn to Dan for representation in commercial, regulatory, and white collar criminal matters. His client roster includes companies and senior executives in a wide range of fields, from investment and merchant banking to investment management, law, health care, accounting, real estate, the arts, and entertainment. Dan’s experience spans trials, arbitrations, and appeals, as well as investigations by the Securities and Exchange Commission, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, and other regulatory agencies. Those matters have involved allegations of securities and other financial fraud, violations of the False Claims Act and the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, claims brought under the Bankruptcy Code, breach of contract, breach of fiduciary duty, attorney malpractice, and defamation.

John Siffert

John is a founding partner of LSW, where he has built a widely respected practice that encompasses every aspect of litigation. A fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers, he has also served on the organization’s Board of Regents and as a trustee of its foundation. Over the course of four decades, John successfully has tried many civil and criminal trials to verdict and prevailed as claimant and respondent in commercial arbitrations. He also has argued before the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, the New York Court of Appeals, and the First and Second Departments of the New York State Supreme Court Appellate Division.John’s areas of practice range from commercial, contract, and other civil disputes to regulatory and criminal matters. He is adept at handling a wide range of allegations, including securities fraud, antitrust violations, professional misconduct, art law, intellectual property, cybercrimes, and Foreign Corrupt Practices Act violations. He has represented corporations, corporate boards, individual directors, and senior officers, as well as major law firms and individual lawyers both in court and before the Attorney Grievance Committee of the First Department. John also has been called upon to advise audit committees and special committees conducting internal investigations. John has been on the faculty at New York University School of Law for over 40 years and holds the title of adjunct professor. He also has taught at Harvard Law School, Hofstra Law School, Cardozo Law School, Columbia Business School, and the National Institute for Trial Advocacy Training (NITA). John is a co-author—along with the late Hon. Leonard Sand and the Hon. Jed Rakoff—of Modern Federal Jury Instructions (civil and criminal), published by Matthew Bender, as well as numerous articles and book chapters on a variety of topics.

Charles Spada

Charlie represents individuals and organizations in complex business and financial litigation, regulatory enforcement, and white collar criminal matters. Over the course of more than two decades at LSW, he has successfully handled complex litigation before federal and state trial courts and appellate courts, as well as investigations involving the Department of Justice, the Securities and Exchange Commission, the offices of various district attorneys and attorneys general, and other regulatory agencies.A wide range of clients—from corporations and financial institutions to boards of directors, special committees, chief executive officers, chief financial officers, general counsels, compliance officers, traders, portfolio managers, public accountants, lawyers, theatrical production companies, celebrities and Tony Award-winning directors and artists—have relied on Charlie for representation in their most sensitive and high-profile matters. His litigation and investigatory experience cuts across a broad array of industries, including investment and commercial banking (loan syndications and participations), securities and derivatives (sales and trading), investment advisors, hedge funds, private equity, mutual funds, accounting, law, technology (software and hardware), intellectual property licensing, arts and entertainment, tax (corporate and individual income/sales tax), financial news and media, advertising, commercial and municipal bond insurance, oil and gas, industrial chemicals, health care, consumer products, commercial real estate, construction, government and government contracting, education, and nonprofit corporations. In addition, Charlie frequently advises companies and their boards on corporate governance and compliance matters.

John Rusty Wing

Rusty is a nationally recognized criminal defense lawyer in the areas of criminal trial and appellate work. For more than 30 years, he has defended individuals and entities “against an impressive range of bet-the-company allegations” (Chambers USA), including securities fraud, tax fraud, mail and wire fraud, bank fraud, bribery, antitrust violations, labor violations, RICO violations, and environmental law violations. His clients range from Fortune 500 corporations to law firms, banks, business executives, lawyers, political figures, media figures, accountants, doctors, bankers, small business owners, and individuals from many other walks of life.Rusty has been involved in some of the most challenging white collar cases in recent history, including many grand jury investigations of both institutional and individual clients that have been successfully resolved without criminal charges. He has also secured numerous acquittals in jury trials in both federal and state courts, as well as the dismissal of indictments—sometimes after mistrials—in major felony cases for a number of clients.

Frank Wohl

A founding partner of Lankler Siffert & Wohl LLP, Frank is a nationally recognized litigator who represents individuals and entities in complex civil litigation, regulatory enforcement, and white collar criminal matters. His clients include a wide range of for-profit and nonprofit entities, including financial institutions, public and private corporations, law firms, universities, and hospitals. Frank has also represented a broad spectrum of individuals, from business executives to financial market participants, lawyers, accountants, art dealers, and other professionals. Frank has devoted a substantial portion of his practice to attorney ethics matters, defending lawyers and law firms and appearing as an expert witness and serving as a member of the Departmental Disciplinary Committee of the First Department of the New York Supreme Court Appellate Division, the Attorney Grievance Committee of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York and on the Ethics and Professional Responsibility Committees of the New York City Bar Association. Beginning in 2006, Frank has chaired annual New York City Bar Association programs on current ethical and strategic issues in corporate investigations. Earlier in his career, Frank served in the United States Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York, where he was appointed Assistant Chief of the Criminal Division and subsequently Chief of the Civil Division. More recently, he served as the President of the Federal Bar Council.

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