Financial Fraud: A 2013 Perspective

Peter J. Anderson, a partner at Sutherland Asbill & Brennan LLP, represents public companies, their officers and directors, along with financial services companies, accounting and law firms and their principals in SEC enforcement actions, DOJ investigations and criminal prosecutions, and complex civil litigations. Peter also represents brokerage firms, broker/dealers and individual brokers before the SEC, all self-regulatory organizations, and state securities regulators and attorneys general in investigations relating to supervision, suitability, sales practices and insider trading.

His securities litigation experience includes the defense of multi-district class actions, as well as the defense of financial services and accounting firms in more than 40 federal and state jury trials and in numerous complex securities arbitrations.

Peter’s principal outside interest and passion is his involvement in ServeHAITI, a 501(c) (3) nonprofit organization that provides medical care and treatment to people residing in the mountains of Haiti through the operation of a full service medical facility. Peter is ServeHAITI’s Treasurer and a founding member of its Board of Directors.

Daniel L. Stein is a partner in the Firm’s Litigation Department. Mr. Stein represents institutional and individual clients in regulatory enforcement matters, criminal investigations, and complex civil litigation in state and federal courts. He also advises institutional clients regarding regulatory enforcement and compliance matters. His clients include financial institutions, hedge funds, corporations, investment bankers, attorneys, brokers, traders and other investment professionals. Mr. Stein is an experienced trial lawyer and appellate advocate, who has tried more than a dozen cases to verdict before courts and juries and argued numerous appeals. He has experience counseling clients and conducting internal investigations with regard to investigations conducted by the Department of Justice, various United States Attorney’s Offices, the New York Attorney General, the SEC, FINRA, the United States Department of Labor, the Manhattan District Attorney, the FBI, and other law enforcement agencies.

David Gannaway, MBA, CFE, EA is a principal in the firm’s Valuation & Forensic Services group. He is responsible for providing litigation consulting services in the areas of internal investigations, shareholder disputes, civil tax controversies and criminal defense. David joined Citrin Cooperman in March 2011 and is based in the firm’s New York City office.

A former Assistant Special Agent in Charge of the New York office of IRS Criminal Investigation, David is a financial fraud investigative specialist with experience in conducting and supervising white-collar crime investigations. He has extensive experience in representing clients before the IRS in the “Offshore Voluntary Compliance Program” involving international taxation and the disclosing of Foreign Bank Accounts under the Bank Secrecy Act. He also provided fraud and anti-money laundering training to corporations and government agencies.