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Jeff, a former assistant regional administrator of the SEC’s New York Regional Office, represents broker-dealers, investment advisers, securities professionals, institutional investors, public companies, and corporate officers and directors in regulatory investigations nationwide.
He also represents clients in parallel criminal proceedings, internal corporate investigations, and complex civil litigation and arbitration, and provides compliance counseling to broker-dealers and investment advisers.
Jeff is the chair of the firm's Practice Standards Committee.
Associations
- Chairman, Connecticut Legal Services, Inc.
- New York State Bar Association, White Collar Criminal Litigation Committee, Commercial and Federal Litigation Section (Former Co-Chair, Securities Subcommittee)
- Connecticut Bar Association, Federal Practice Section
- American Bar Association, Business Law Section
- Director, MoCA Westport (formerly Westport Arts Center), 2014 – 2018 (Chair, Governance Committee)
Publications
- "BlackBerry: The FINRA Compliant Smartphone," February 2011 (White Paper commissioned by Research in Motion Limited)
- "Criminal Prosecutorial Discretion in Insider Trading Cases: Let's Look at the Numbers," NYLitigator, Fall 2010 (principal author)
- "Confidential Commercial Documents in the SEC's Investigative Files: Caution to the Complacent," Securities Regulation Law Journal, Fall 2010 (co-author)
- "SEC v. Bank of America: Back to the Drawing Board," ABA Criminal LitigationNewsletter, Winter 2010 (co-author)
- "The Designated Third Party Requirement: The Final Frontier of SEC Rule 17a-4(f)," November 2009 (White Paper commissioned by Iron Mountain) (republished February 2012)
- "Responding To SRO Market Surveillance Inquiries Into Potential Insider Trading," The Metropolitan Corporate Counsel, October 2007 (co-author)
- "Securities Class Action Settlements - How Corporate Governance Reform Has Played a Role in the Process," New York Law Journal, September 20, 2007 (co-author)
- "Reaping the Benefits of Electronic Message Surveillance," 2006 (report of broker-dealer survey conducted with Fortiva, Inc.) (co-author)
- "The Act-Of-Production Privilege in SEC Proceedings," The Review of Securities & Commodities Regulation, Vol. 39, No. 1, January 4, 2006 (co-author)
- "SEC Enforcement Actions: Show Me the Money," New York Law Journal, December 19, 2005
- "The Tipper Benefit Test Under the Misappropriation Theory," New York Law Journal, August 15, 2003
- "Broker-Dealer Regulations Concerning E-Mail," New York Law Journal, December 4, 2002