Shartsis Friese LLP

Litigation

Partner

With a background working for the SEC, Jahan Raissi brings a unique perspective to his work as Chair of Shartsis Friese’s Securities Enforcement Defense Group.

Before joining the firm, Jahan served as Senior Counsel in the Division of Enforcement of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) in Washington, D.C. While at the SEC, he led investigations and litigation involving accounting irregularities, auditor misconduct, internal corporate controls, public company disclosures and periodic reports, insider trading, securities offerings, market manipulation, and broker-dealer and investment adviser regulation. He appeared in both federal court and administrative proceedings and regularly, and worked closely with federal and state criminal prosecutors, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), foreign regulatory agencies and self-regulatory organizations, such as the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA).Today, Jahan leverages that experience to help clients navigate complex regulatory and litigation matters. He has represented companies, boards, officers, directors and other individuals before federal and state securities regulators, criminal prosecutors, self-regulatory organizations and in private litigation. He also has extensive experience with hundreds of government investigations and litigated cases involving public company accounting and reporting issues, insider trading, as well as those involving investment advisers, hedge funds, venture capital and private equity firms, broker-dealers, investment companies, custodians, administrators and auditors.

While Jahan is a seasoned litigator who consistently obtains favorable outcomes, many of his clients also seek his counsel to quietly resolve sensitive matters and avoid litigation and publicity.

Widely recognized for his work on insider trading issues, Jahan is one of the few lawyers on the West Coast with substantial experience representing investment advisers, and advisers to private funds in particular, in government investigations and private litigation.

Association of Securities and Exchange Commission Alumni; Association of Business Trial Lawyers (ABTL); Bar Association of San Francisco

University of California, College of the Law, San Francisco (formerly UC Hastings); J.D., cum laude, 1993 | University of California, Santa Cruz; B.A, politics/legal studies, 1990