Recent Engagements
HSBC Monitor
- Serves as lead counsel to the corporate compliance monitor of HSBC Holdings plc and its subsidiaries appointed for a five-year term by the DOJ, the UK Financial Conduct Authority and the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System in connection with HSBC’s US$1.9 billion resolution of money laundering and sanctions violations.
FIFA Prosecutions
- Serves as lead counsel to soccer confederation CONCACAF in connection with the DOJ’s investigations of corruption in world football and leads CONCACAF’s related internal investigation.
- Previously led the internal investigation of fraud allegations involving CONCACAF’s former President, Jack Warner and Secretary General, Chuck Blazer.
FX Investigations
- Serves as lead counsel to a global bank in connection with the foreign currency exchange trading investigations being conducted by numerous enforcement agencies around the world.
PetroTiger Declination
- Served as lead counsel to oilfield services company PetroTiger in connection with an investigation of FCPA violations in Colombia and obtained from the DOJ a groundbreaking declination of prosecution for the company notwithstanding convictions of the company’s former co-CEOs and general counsel.
Other Representations of Corporate Clients
Market Manipulation
- Served as lead counsel to a LIBOR panel bank in connection with the DOJ’s investigation of the manipulation of LIBOR rates and represented the bank in connection with the investigations of numerous enforcement agencies around the world.
- Represented an inter-dealer brokerage firm in connection with investigations by the SDNY, the NYAG and the SEC into potentially manipulative credit default swaps trading.
Fraud
- Retained during the financial crisis to advise the Federal Reserve Bank of New York (FRBNY) on fraud risk issues and to conduct a fraud risk assessment in connection with the US$250 billion Term Asset-Backed Securities Lending Facility (TALF), one of the federal government’s most important and successful economic recovery programs.
- Served as lead counsel to an asset management firm in connection with investigations of potential fraud in the setting of foreign currency exchange rates.
- Served as lead counsel to a bank in connection with investigations of a rogue trader conducted by the FRBNY and the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office.
Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA)
- Secured a declination of prosecution from the DOJ for an international commodities-trading firm and a favorable settlement in parallel federal civil litigation, in connection with bribery allegations involving payments to employees of a company owned in part by the government of Bahrain.
- Secured a declination of prosecution from the DOJ for a leading international oil and gas company in connection with a worldwide investigation into possible FCPA violations, notwithstanding the fact that the investigation concluded that bribes were paid.
- Represented a Fortune 100 company before the DOJ and the SEC in connection with the assessment and enhancement of the company’s corporate compliance program and managed a global FCPA compliance review of company operations in more than 65 countries, including in-country reviews of subsidiaries in China, Russia, India, Turkey, Brazil, Ukraine, Mexico, Romania, Venezuela and Italy.
- Represented a leading pharmaceutical company before the DOJ and the SEC in connection with the post-acquisition due diligence review of an acquired company’s operations in Indonesia, the Philippines, Colombia and Poland, and conducted FCPA and fraud investigations and compliance reviews in multiple countries, including China, Singapore and Australia.
Insider Trading
- Represented a number of hedge funds and hedge fund executives in connection with insider trading investigations conducted by the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the SDNY and the SEC, including investigations related to expert consultant networks.
Representations of Individual Clients
- Represented the former Controller of Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities in connection with the investigation and prosecution of individuals associated with Madoff’s ponzi scheme.
- Represented a former senior manager of SAC Capital Advisors, LP in connection with insider trading investigations of various employees of SAC.
- Represented an employee of a major investment bank in connection with the investigation of bid-rigging in municipal tax lien auctions conducted by the DOJ’s Antitrust Division.
- Represented the “Bitcoin King” in connection with the prosecution in the SDNY of money laundering offenses involving the Silk Road website.
- Represented senior partners of prominent lawyer Marc Dreier in connection with the investigation of his well-publicized fraud scheme.
- Currently serving as a member of the CJA panel for the Southern District of New York representing indigent defendants as court-appointed counsel.
Government Experience
Prior to joining the firm, Tim was an assistant U.S. Attorney in the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York for more than eight years, serving as deputy chief of the Organized Crime Unit and, at times, as acting chief of the Violent Crimes and Narcotics Units. As deputy chief, Tim supervised the work of approximately 15 senior federal prosecutors conducting grand jury investigations and prosecutions of both violent crimes and sophisticated white-collar crimes, including money laundering offenses involving major financial institutions, fraud offenses in the pharmaceutical and insurance industries, and offenses involving fraud in the market for subprime mortgages. For several years, Tim was a member of the Organized Crime and Terrorism Unit and, in that capacity, participated in the DOJ’s response to the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001.
During his tenure in the U.S. Attorney’s Office, Tim handled many significant cases, including the prosecution of the founders of NETeller PLC, a publicly traded payment services company, for some of the most substantial money laundering offenses in history, and negotiated deferred-prosecution and non-prosecution agreements with corporate defendants. Tim also appointed and managed one of the earliest corporate compliance monitors and served on a committee that participated in the drafting of then-Deputy Attorney General Morford’s policy on the selection and use of monitors. Tim also led prosecutions of numerous leaders and members of traditional organized crime families and of various corrupt labor unions.
Tim worked closely with other prosecutor’s offices in New York. He was appointed special assistant deputy attorney general for the State of New York. He also served as a clinical prosecutor in the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of New York. Before joining the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Manhattan, Tim served as law clerk to the Honorable W. Harold Albritton, III, U.S. District Judge for the Middle District of Alabama.
Trial Experience
During his tenure in the U.S. Attorney’s Office, Tim established himself as one of the government’s most experienced and successful trial lawyers. He tried a dozen criminal cases, convicting all 24 defendants, and led the government teams in three major multi-month, multi-defendant trials. In addition, Tim briefed and argued numerous cases before the Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.
Earlier in his career, Tim spent several years in private practice as an antitrust litigator defending corporate clients against enforcement actions by the DOJ and the Federal Trade Commission. He was also a founding partner of Law Preview LLC, an educational services company.
Tim is admitted to practice in New York and Massachusetts.
