| Biography:
Stephen L. Ratner is a senior partner at Proskauer Rose, where he is Co-chair of the Financial Services Practice and a member of the Firm’s Executive Committee. Mr. Ratner handles a variety of complex matters including securities and commodities litigations, investigations and enforcement proceedings, arbitrations and mediations, compliance issues, and regulatory controversies on behalf of major brokerage firms and other leading financial institutions.
Mr. Ratner’s recent matters include the defense of financial services firms in industry-wide class actions involving IPO allocations and short selling practices as well as multiple investigations by the SEC, NASD and NYSE regarding securities lending, trade reporting, short selling, email retention, and other issues.
Mr. Ratner has served as a mediator appointed by the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York. He is a member of the Federal Bar Council and the Board of Editors of the Federal Bar Council News. Mr. Ratner is also a member of the New York State Bar Association, the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association and the New York City Bar, where he has been a member of the Committee on Judicial and Professional Ethics. He has also served as the Co-chair of the Private Litigation Committee of the American Bar Association's Committee on Futures and Derivatives, and as the moderator of the Futures and Derivatives Annual Panel on Litigation and Enforcement. Mr. Ratner has taught as an adjunct professor of law at Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law and is a frequent speaker on matters related to the financial services industry.
Mr. Ratner is the author of the section entitled "Broker-Dealer Litigation and Arbitration" in the multi-volume treatise, Commercial Litigation in New York State Courts.
Mr. Ratner has been named a leading lawyer in New York Super Lawyers 2006 in the Securities Litigation area.
Mr. Ratner received his undergraduate degree (B.A., 1971) from Columbia College and his law degree (J.D., 1974) from the Columbia University School of Law, where he was a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar.
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