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Lionel E. Pashkoff is a partner in the Litigation and Dispute Resolution Department and is resident in the Washington DC office of Proskauer Rose LLP. He has extensive experience in SEC and securities-related enforcement litigation. His practice includes representing clients in securities enforcement matters before the SEC, FINRA (formerly the New York Stock Exchange Enforcement Division and the NASD) as well as in civil litigations and arbitrations involving federal and state securities laws.
Lionel has been successful in convincing the SEC not to proceed in possible enforcement actions against corporations, broker-dealers, their senior executives, accountants and attorneys involving a broad array of issues including financial fraud and reporting, insider trading, Foreign Corrupt Practices Act and Sarbanes Oxley. He was designated co-lead trial counsel for a senior executive of Bear Stearns in a high profile administrative hearing involving the largest securities clearing broker-dealer on Wall Street, was counsel to a key party in the SEC’s investigation of Sunbeam Corp., and has represented broker-dealers in major cases involving market timing, the sale of mutual funds, and sale of Enron bonds and research analysts. Most recently he represented a CFO of a public company in highly publicized SEC financial fraud action involving the restatement of over $1 billion and has been involved in counseling executives of corporations, accounting firms and financial institutions on matters pertaining to the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act.
Lionel was previously the Chief Enforcement Attorney for the Office of the Securities and Exchange Commission in Washington, D.C., which regulated all SEC-related enforcement matters for the Mid-Atlantic states. He also was appointed Special Assistant U.S. Attorney by the U.S. Attorney General for the prosecution of several bribery and corruption matters relating to the U.S. Congress.
A frequent lecturer and writer on securities and enforcement matters, Lionel is the author of "Obtaining Immunity in Securities and Exchange Commission Investigations," The Securities Regulation Law Journal, Volume 5, Number 2, Summer 1977, and has coauthored an article appearing in the November 13, 1995 issue of The National Law Journal entitled, "Countries Strengthen Insider Trading Laws," relating to the laws governing insider trading in the seven major industrial countries known as the Group of Seven or "G-7.” In addition, he has authored articles on such issues as supervision, markups and the utilization of the Fifth Amendment in SEC investigations.
Lionel was selected by peers for inclusion in the 2008 edition of The Best Lawyers in America, in the area of securities law. Lionel received his law degree (J.D., 1968) from the George Washington University National Law Center.
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