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Steven Salky primarily represents companies and individuals in white collar criminal cases, regulatory agency investigations, and civil litigation. He has extensive experience representing executives of financial services companies in securities fraud investigations and parallel civil litigation. He represented the former chief financial officers of Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae in various proceedings arising from these companies’ restatements of earnings. During the past several years, he has represented numerous executives in the private mortgage finance industry in a variety of civil and criminal investigations.
In addition to his work in the mortgage finance industry, Mr. Salky regularly represents executives of health care and pharmaceutical companies in regulatory and grand jury investigations. He also represents professionals, including lawyers, doctors, and accountants, in cases involving their compliance with applicable professional obligations.
While in law school, Mr. Salky was awarded the Harlan Fiske Stone prize for the best oralist in Yale Law School’s Moot Court Competition. After graduating from law school, Mr. Salky clerked for then Chief Judge Theodore R. Newman Jr., of the District of Columbia Court of Appeals, before beginning a two-year teaching fellowship at the Georgetown University Law Center. As the Stuart Stiller Fellow at Georgetown’s Criminal Justice Clinic, he represented indigent criminal defendants and supervised third-year law students in court.
Mr. Salky has spoken, written, and appeared as a commentator on various legal subjects. In 2006, he was recognized as “Top Washington Lawyer” for corporate litigation by the Washington Business Journal.
Experience
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Represented the managing director of a national bank’s mortgage business in an SEC investigation of expected loss disclosures.
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Representing a senior trader of non-agency mortgage-backed securities from a Wall Street financial services firm in an SEC inquiry.
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Represented the former CFO of a Canadian pharmaceutical company in an SEC enforcement action arising from various transactions alleged to have misled shareholders about the company’s earnings.
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Representing the former chief business officer of a financial services firm in an SEC investigation of the company’s subprime mortgage disclosures.
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Representing the CEO of a health care company in a Medicare fraud investigation.
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Representing a nonprofit company and its board of directors in civil litigation over control of the corporation.
EDUCATION
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Yale Law School,
J.D.,
1981
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Trinity College,
B.A.,
1976, with highest honors, Phi Beta Kappa
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