Akin has unique expertise acting for financial institutions, as well as their executives and traders, in investigations and enforcement proceedings relating to securities and commodities laws, with notable capabilities in matters involving allegations of insider trading, accounting fraud, market manipulation, and other trading violations. The group regularly represents clients in both civil and criminal trials and investigations, and is well-equipped to advise on matters with a multijurisdictional element. Co-leading the team in New York, Katherine Goldstein is knowledgeable in a wide range of investigations and white-collar litigation, especially in the securities and commodities, market manipulation, mismarking of complex products, and corporate fraud space, and James Benjamin focuses on government and regulatory investigations and litigation, white-collar criminal defense, securities enforcement, and internal investigations. Charles Connolly leads out of Washington DC, and is an expert in financial fraud cases, as well as in anti-money-laundering, anti-bribery, and the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act.
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Accolades
Client satisfaction: Lawyer & team quality
Client satisfaction: Sector knowledge
Client satisfaction: NPS ®
Key clients
- Two Sigma Investments, LP
- Gotham City Research
- Morgan Stanley
- Christophe Rivoire
- Tanweer Parkar
- Capricorn Clark
- Adil Quraish
Work highlights
Representing Two Sigma, a New York-based quantitative investment firm, in connection with investigations by the SEC and other agencies into a scheme by a rogue employee that resulted in substantial investor losses.
Representing Gotham City Research and related entities in connection with parallel investigations by the SEC and the CNMV (the Spanish securities regulator) into whether Gotham published materially false or misleading information in negative research reports in an effort to benefit its affiliates’ short positions in the securities of the company targeted in the reports.
Defending Christophe Rivoire, a former senior interest rate trader at HSBC, in a civil CFTC enforcement case pending in the Southern District of New York arising from alleged market manipulation and fraud in connection with a multibillion-dollar interest rate swap.
Lawyers
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The strongest partners in their field, leading on market-leading deals and endorsed by peers and clients alike.
Katherine Goldstein
Practice head
Katherine Goldstein; James Benjamin; Charles Connolly
Other key lawyers
Peter Altman; Michael Asaro; Parvin Daphne Moyne; Lance Jasper; Gerald Moody