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Aaron Marcu is resident in our New York office. He is coordinator of the firm's White Collar Defense & Investigations practice group and focuses on the defense of white collar criminal and SEC enforcement cases, conducting corporate internal investigations, and antitrust and cartel proceedings. He has handled grand jury and SEC investigations for both institutions and individuals, including Bear Stearns, Morgan Stanley, Pfizer, Goodyear, UnitedHealth, Adelphia, Philip Morris, NBC, and Société Générale, and key players in the national tobacco, Enron, research analyst, mutual fund, Bankers Trust, Lloyd's of London and Salomon Brothers investigations. He has represented clients in investigations involving allegations of, among other things, insider trading, stock manipulation, financial accounting and other securities fraud, stock options backdating, money-laundering, antitrust violations, and violations of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act. In addition to conducting internal investigations for corporate clients, Mr. Marcu helps design corporate compliance programs, and advises public companies and new issuers on disclosure and related issues and on issues of corporate governance.
Previous Experience
- U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York (1983-1989)
- Associate U.S. Attorney (1989)
- Chief, Major Crimes Unit (1988-1989)
- Chief Appellate Attorney (1987-1988)
- Deputy Chief Appellate Attorney (1986-1987)
- Assistant U.S. Attorney (1983-1989)
- New York City Civilian Complaint Review Board, Commissioner (1995-1998)
Honors and Rankings
- Judicial Appointments:
- SEC v. Park South Securities,LLC, and Eberhard Investment Associates, Inc., Receiver (SDNY 2003-present)
- SEC v. Milan Capital Group, Inc., Receiver and Bankruptcy Trustee (SDNY 2000-2004)
- SEC v. First Jersey Securities and Robert Brennan, Special Agent (SDNY 1995)
- U.S. Department of Justice, Director’s Award for Superior Performance (1987)
- U.S. Attorney General’s Economic Crimes Council (1988-1989)
- New York Bar Foundation, Fellow
- Guide to the World's Leading White Collar Crime Lawyers (2008)
- Guide to the World's Leading Litigation Lawyers (2008)
- International Who's Who of Business Crime Lawyers (1997-2008)
- Who's Who in American Law (2004-2008)
- Best Lawyers in America (2004-2008)
- Chambers USA: Americas Leading Business Lawyers (2005-2008)
- New York Super Lawyers (2006-2008)
- Recommended by The Legal 500 US (2007-2008)
- Euromoney, Benchmark: America's Leading Litigation Firms and Attorneys - White Collar Litigation Star, National; Local Litigation Star, NY (2009)
Pro Bono
- At the request of New York Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani, Marcu organized a consortium of more than 100 lawyers from more than a dozen law firms to represent the surviving families of 130 of the firefighters and other uniformed heroes killed in the World Trade Center rescue effort.
- Won a $3 billion judgment in New York federal court against former Serbian dictator Radovan Karadzic on behalf of a class of Serbian victims of Karadzic’s campaign of genocide and torture.
Memberships and Affiliations
- Federal Bar Council
- Trustee (2000-2006)
- Executive Committee (1995-1997)
- Chair, Nominating Committee (1996)
- Committee on Second Circuit Courts (1990-1996); Chair (1993-1996)
- Public Service Committee (2001-2004)
- Chair, World Trade Center Initiative Subcommittee (2001-2004)
- Winter Meeting Program Committee (2001)
- Winter Meeting Program Committee (1996)
- Federal Bar Foundation
- Board of Directors (1993-1999)
- New York Council of Defense Lawyers
- Board of Directors (1999-2003)
- Corporate Prosecutions Committee (1997-1998)
- Indigent Defendants Committee (1993-1994)
- Association of the Bar of the City of New York
- Committee on Federal Legislation (1986-1989)
- Chair: Subcommittee on Civil RICO
- Adjunct Associate Professor of Law, Fordham University School of Law (1986-1988)
- Harvard Law School: Instructor, Introduction to Trial Advocacy
- Packer Collegiate Institute, Board of Trustees (1998-2007)
- New York Blood Center, Trustee (2006-present)
- Northwestern University College of Arts and Sciences, Board of Visitors (2005-present)
Publications and Speeches
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