Steven Molo > MoloLamken LLP > New York, United States > Lawyer Profile

MoloLamken LLP houses a strong team of litigators that caters to a wide client base, which includes investors, boards, senior executives, and companies. Leading the team in New York, Steven Molo has a wealth of experience defending individuals who are facing allegations of corruption, health care fraud, insider trading, and financial misconduct. Justin Shur is ‘an excellent white-collar practitioner’ based in Washington DC. Shur routinely represents clients before the SEC and DOJ who are being investigated for FCPA violations, tax offences, money laundering, and national security concerns. Also located in Washington DC, Caleb Hayes-Deats handles government and congressional investigations. Considered a ‘a go-to white collar practitioner in Chicago’, Megan Cunniff Church is recommended for sensitive internal investigations.

MoloLamken LLP is a national litigation boutique that handles a broad range of complex litigation, ranging from securities fraud cases to white-collar defense matters. Steven Molo in New York leads the practice and is known as a compelling courtroom advocate, which helps him to reach significant settlements, often on the eve of trial. He recently achieved a $14m settlement in a long-running 10b-5 securities fraud stockholder class action against Dakota Plains, which transported oil developed from fracking in North Dakota to the coasts. Molo and Washington DC-based partners Robert Kry  and Lauren Weinstein are currently representing Deutsche Bank National Trust Company in one of more than a dozen suits that the firm is handling for securitization trustees against sponsors and originators of defective subprime mortgage loan securitizations in federal and state courts. In this case, investors lost more than $495m. New York-based Justin Ellis worked with Molo to assist Contrarian Capital Management LLC with its breach of contract actions arising out of the failure by Venezuela and its state-owned oil company, PDVSA, to pay principal and interest on debt in excess of $1bn.

The ‘incredibly efficient’ team of litigators at MoloLamken LLP is adept at handling complex business disputes and IP disputes as well as white-collar defense and investigations. Practice leader and former prosecutor Steven Molo is based in New York and serves as a reputed contact for representing senior executives and government officials in white-collar matters. ‘Renowned professional’ Robert Kry practices from Washington DC and primarily focuses on trial and appellate matters, including in relation to corporate and securities litigation.