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Arthur S. Greenspan

Partner

Arthur S. Greenspan helps clients effectively defend and manage complex governmental investigations and private litigation. The focus of his practice is representing financial and other companies and individual executives and financial professionals in securities enforcement and white collar criminal matters and in complex commercial litigation. Mr. Greenspan regularly represents clients before the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), the New York State Attorney General, and self-regulatory organizations such as FINRA and the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE). He also has substantial experience representing clients in the federal and state courts and before arbitration panels. In addition, he advises clients on compliance, litigation and transactional issues and helps clients prepare compliance policies and procedures.

Mr. Greenspan is experienced in the areas of securities law, corporate law and governance, federal criminal law – including money laundering, the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) and RICO – insurance and reinsurance law, antitrust law, and GAAP accounting. Examples of Mr. Greenspan’s recent engagements include:

• Representing a major securities firm in litigation with a counterparty bank concerning a disputed credit default swap in the subprime mortgage-backed securities market;

• Representing an investment bank in an FCPA investigation by the SEC concerning issuances of sovereign debt by a Latin American country;

• Representing a large securities firm in an NYSE investigation concerning alleged misuse of material nonpublic information by one of the firm’s research analysts;

• Representing a major financial institution in its capacity as agent bank in litigation with a group of lender banks concerning the agent bank’s indemnification claim against the other banks;

• Representing a major pharmaceutical company in investigations by the DOJ and the Department of Health and Human Services concerning alleged Medicare fraud in the enteral nutrition industry;

• Representing the former CFO of a large pharmaceutical distributor in DOJ and SEC investigations concerning alleged fraudulent misrepresentations in the company’s SEC filings;

• Representing the former head of a bank’s municipal derivatives sales desk in DOJ antitrust and SEC investigations regarding the municipal derivatives market;

• Representing an executive at a large manufacturing company in DOJ antitrust and FCPA investigations concerning the marine hose industry;

• Representing a trader at a major bank in an SEC investigation concerning alleged insider trading based on information obtained from creditors committees;

• Representing senior financial professionals at a major securities firm in connection with DOJ, SEC and New York Attorney General investigations concerning the subprime mortgage-backed securities market.

Mr. Greenspan’s work and professionalism have earned him recognition as a top litigator and a leader within the legal community. In 2007 and 2008, he was recognized in New York Super Lawyers in the area of securities litigation. He serves on the planning committee of the Federal Bar Council Winter Bench and Bar Conference and was recently named President-Elect of the Federal Bar Council American Inn of Court.

Mr. Greenspan is admitted to practice before the state courts of New York and the United States District Courts for the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York.