Experience

• Represented clients in three separate SEC enforcement proceedings alleging violations of securities law in connection with market timing at mutual funds. The clients included the portfolio manager of a mutual fund that allegedly permitted timing, a broker who allegedly used deceptive practices to time mutual funds for his customers, and an off-shore hedge fund that allegedly used the same tactics to time mutual funds.
• Represented a broker in a successful suit and trial to compel his former employer to advance defense costs in connection with an SEC proceeding arising out of his employment by the brokerage house.
• Representing a partner and senior officer of a private equity firm in a suit to enforce the equity participation provisions of his contract.

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• Representing the former CFO of the foreign subsidiary of a U.S. issuer in connection with an internal investigation and DOJ investigation of illegal foreign payments.
• Representing the CEO of a health care services organization in a grand jury investigation concerning Medicare billings.
• Represented prominent lawyers in Circular 230 proceedings before the IRS arising out of tax opinion letters.
• Representing a Swiss corporation sued in a class action under the Alien Tort Claims Act for human rights violations allegedly committed as a result of doing business in South Africa during the era of apartheid.
• Represented the post-confirmation committee in a bankruptcy suit to recover funds on behalf of creditors from private equity investor on deepening insolvency and other theories.
• Represented a law firm in a criminal investigation.
• Represented an African cellular telephone magnate in the resolution of disputes with his U.S. and Egyptian partners and a disappointed prospective Israeli investor.
• Represented the founder of a television network in connection with a dispute over the terms of an investment made by another major media corporation.
• Represented more than 2,500 pension plans in a class action under ERISA to recover fee overcharges, concluding in a settlement of over $19 million on behalf of the class.
• Represented a major business law firm in connection with the investigation by the Enron examiner of certain tax transactions in which the firm rendered tax opinions.
• Represented the long-time executive director of a prominent Washington, DC area charity in civil and criminal investigations into allegedly improper financial practices.
• Advised hedge funds in connection with special situations involving asbestos bankruptcies and other litigation risk.
• Represented asbestos victims in a $1.5 billion veil-piercing trial that led to a settlement of more than $900 million.

EDUCATION

• University of Maryland Law School, J.D., 1976
• Wesleyan University, B.A., 1971

COURT ADMISSIONS

• U.S. Court of Appeals, 4th Circuit
• U.S. Court of Appeals, District of Columbia Circuit
• U.S. District Court, District of Columbia
• U.S. District Court, District of Maryland
• U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York

BAR ADMISSIONS

• District of Columbia
• Maryland
• New York

MEMBERSHIPS

• DC Bar Association
• Maryland State Bar Association
• American Bar Association 

LANGUAGES

• French