Securities Fraud/Insider Trading
- Obtained a defense verdict on behalf of former CFO in a 10-week trial involving claims of accounting fraud brought by the SEC.
- Represented a former public company sales executive in an SEC investigation into alleged securities fraud involving the company’s sales practices and related private civil litigation.
- Represented a private UK-based company in connection with a FINRA insider trading inquiry over an aborted public company merger and acquisition transaction.
- Represented a large financial institution in parallel DOJ and SEC investigations involving alleged securities fraud, bank fraud and embezzlement.
- Represented a publicly traded utility company in an SEC investigation involving complex financial accounting and reporting issues.
- Represented the CEO of a health care company in an accounting fraud investigation conducted by the SEC.
- Chambers USA: Litigation: White Collar Crime & Government Investigations – Georgia (2022-2025)
- Chambers USA: Litigation: White Collar Crime & Government Investigations – Massachusetts (2023-2025)
- Chambers USA: Litigation: White Collar Crime & Government Investigations – Pennsylvania (2020-2025)
- Chambers USA: Litigation: White Collar Crime & Government Investigations – Texas (2019-2025)
- Chambers USA: Litigation: White Collar Crime & Government Investigations – Virginia (2022-2025)
- Legal’s Finest White Collar Crime Attorney – USA (2014)
- Best Lawyers® “Best Law Firms”: Criminal Defense: White-Collar – (National) (Tier 3) 2022; (Tier 2) 2024; (Tier 1) 2023
- Best Lawyers® “Best Law Firms”: Criminal Defense: White-Collar – (Dallas) (Tier 1) 2016-2025
- Best Lawyers® “Best Law Firms”: Criminal Defense: White-Collar – (Houston) (Tier 1) 2018-2021; 2025
- Best Lawyers® “Best Law Firms”: Criminal Defense: White-Collar – (Philadelphia) (Tier 1) 2019-2024
- Best Lawyers® “Best Law Firms”: Criminal Defense: White-Collar – (Richmond) (Tier 1) 2021-2024
- Best Lawyers® “Best Law Firms”: Criminal Defense: White-Collar – (Boston) (Tier 1) 2018-2019, 2024; (Tier 2) 2023
- Best Lawyers® “Best Law Firms”: White Collar Crimes – (Richmond) (Tier 1) 2019-2020
- Best Lawyers® “Best Law Firms”: Government Relations Practice – (Dallas) (Tier 1) 2025
- Best Lawyers® “Best Law Firms”: Government Relations Practice – (Raleigh) (Tier 2) 2019-2020
- Best Lawyers® “Best Law Firms”: Government Relations Practice – (Atlanta) (Tier 3) 2019
- Best Lawyers® “Best Law Firms”: Government Relations Practice – (Richmond) (Tier 3) 2020; (Tier 1) 2023-2024
- Super Lawyers – Corporate Counsel Edition for Criminal Defense: White Collar
- Law & Politics as a Virginia Super Lawyer in Criminal Defense: White Collar
- Ethisphere-Corpedia “Lawyers Who Matter for FCPA”
- Recommended for white collar criminal defense by The Legal 500 United States