Jodi E. Lopez

JODI LOPEZ represents accounting firms and their professionals, public companies and their D&Os, private equity firms, fund managers, and investment advisers globally in high-stakes financial reporting, accounting, disclosure and tax matters. Her areas of focus include complex civil litigation and regulatory matters with an emphasis on shareholder suits, SEC and PCAOB investigations and enforcement actions, M&A litigation, and disputes arising out of private equity deals. She also represents companies, audit committees, and boards of directors, in connection with internal investigations and special committee investigations. She has served as a lead trial attorney in a five-week arbitration and as a trial team member representing a Big Four accountant in a two-week hearing before an SEC Administrative Law Judge.

Jodi’s advocacy and extensive experience defending accounting firms and their professionals has earned her a recognition from Chambers USA in Accountant and Auditor Liability nationwide (2025).

Jodi’s clients benefit from her dual ability to handle both the litigation and regulatory issues they face, and her pragmatic style that focuses on cost-effective and creative solutions to complex issues. She prides herself on her deep understanding of each client’s business needs and objectives in order to achieve results for her clients. BTI Consulting Group has recognized Jodi for her commitment to excellent client service as a Client Service All-Star in Securities and Professional Liability Litigation.

Jodi’s experience spans a variety of substantive areas, including claims brought under the federal Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the Securities Act of 1933, and state securities laws, derivative suits involving breach of fiduciary duty claims, and cases involving professional negligence, common law fraud, negligent misrepresentation, and breach of contract. She also has handled numerous state board of accountancy investigations in multiple states. Her matters have involved a broad range of accounting, financial reporting, accounting and tax issues, including, among others, revenue recognition, loss reserves, allowance for loan losses and expected credit losses, goodwill impairment, material weaknesses in internal controls, securitizations, derivatives, hedging, auditor independence, insider trading, net operating losses, and deferred tax assets.

Jodi also counsels and litigates for private equity firms and their portfolio companies in connection with a variety of post-closing disputes, including purchase price adjustments, working capital disputes, earnouts, indemnification claims, and breaches of representations and warranties. She brings to bear her accounting knowledge in handling these matters successfully for her clients.

• Represented numerous accounting firms and their professionals in confidential SEC and PCAOB matters that resolved with no enforcement action initiated.
• Represented numerous public companies in confidential SEC investigations, often with corollary securities litigation.
• Obtained dismissal of a non-U.S. Big Four accounting firm in negligent misrepresentation suit in the Delaware Court of Chancery.
• Represented an investment adviser as the claimant in a 23-day arbitration involving testimony from 16 fact witnesses and nine experts that resulted in a substantial arbitration award (including lawyers’ fees and costs).
• Represented a public company and its directors and officers, where the court granted motions to dismiss both a shareholder class action alleging securities fraud and a shareholder derivative suit.
• Defeated class certification in a putative class action brought by shareholders against a public company and several of its directors and officers.
• Represented a private equity firm in a case involving allegations of fraud and negligent misrepresentation in which the court granted summary judgment to the private equity firm.

• Member, National Women’s Law Center Leadership Advisory Committee (2023-Present)
• Trustee, Peninsula Heritage School (2022-Present)
• Board Member, Los Angeles Center for Law and Justice (2012-2019)
• Board Member, University of Michigan Club of Los Angeles (2010-2016)
• Participant, International Association of Defense Counsel Trial Academy, one of the oldest and most well respected programs for developing defense trial advocacy skills (2010)
  
   

Jodi maintains an active pro bono practice, including more than 16 years of work representing an intellectually-disabled man on death row in Alabama in partnership with the Equal Justice Initiative. In addition, in 2011, she was one of the recipients of Public Counsel’s President’s Award based on her work for a Los Angeles-based organization providing housing for individuals struggling with homelessness.