Related Practices

• Securities and Financial Services Litigation
• Insurance Litigation and Regulation
• Class Action Litigation

Practice Team

Related Industries

Our Securities, Financial Services and White Collar Group focuses on the representation of corporations and financial institutions in connection with complex litigation, class actions, regulatory and compliance matters and the defense of criminal proceedings.  Our financial services lawyers that make up part of this practice group are among the most experienced and seasoned attorneys dedicated to representing financial services clients in the State.  We regularly handle a variety of matters on behalf of all types of businesses including brokerage firms, financial advisors, hedge funds and insurance companies and their associated persons that include the following:

• Class Actions, Shareholder Actions and corporate disputes
• Customer claims of all varieties (arbitration and state and federal court)
• Regulatory investigations and proceedings brought by SROs, the SEC, and state regulators and criminal investigations
• Registration of broker/dealers, investment advisors, branch offices and their affiliated persons
• Raiding and competition
• Trading disputes
• Securities and sales practice class actions
• Disputes over compensation
• Counseling regarding compliance matters and internal investigations of possible corporate and business misconduct
• Insurance regulatory matters
• Antitrust matters

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From Our Video Library

LT Lafferty discusses tax evasion, the “Tax Gap” and the IRS’ foreign bank account voluntary disclosure program in light of the recent UBS tax settlement on Fox 13 News “Your Turn” with Kathy Fountain.

Latour “LT” Lafferty is the Practice Leader of the Firm’s White Collar Crime, Government Investigations, and Compliance and Ethics and a former federal prosecutor. LT recently appeared on Fox 13 News’ “Your Turn” with Kathy Fountain to discuss tax evasion, “tax gap" and the voluntary disclosure program, which the IRS has created in order to coax U.S. taxpayers with undisclosed foreign bank accounts and non-US assets to pay taxes on those accounts.  The new guidance is intended to resolve the tax liabilities related to offshore issues of non-compliant US taxpayers who are eligible to make voluntary disclosure requests and who fully cooperate with the IRS.

Prosecutors Keep Hunting for Aiders and Abettors in Madoff Securities Fraud Case

Latour “LT” Lafferty is the Practice Leader of the Firm’s White Collar Crime, Government Investigations, and Compliance and Ethics and a former federal prosecutor. LT recently appeared on Fox 13 News’ “Your Turn” with Kathy Fountain to discuss the Ponzi schemes and the securities fraud case against Bernard Madoff. LT was also recently quoted in the Wall Street Journal describing the Madoff case as a “tragedy.”