Romatowski, Peter J.

Peter Romatowski oversees the Firm's SEC enforcement practice and also practices white-collar criminal defense. He has represented domestic U.S. public companies and foreign issuers, their directors, board committees, and executives, as well as broker/dealers, private investment firms, and law firms, in internal, SEC, CFTC, SRO, state regulatory, and criminal investigations of the full range of securities law issues.

These engagements have included accounting and financial statement issues, disclosure matters, faulty earnings guidance, FCPA payments, recordkeeping and controls issues, insider trading, Regulation FD issues, mutual fund trading practices, and broker/dealer supervision, trading, and sales practice issues.

In his criminal practice, Peter has represented corporate and individual clients from four continents in U.S. grand jury and congressional investigations involving price-fixing by domestic and international cartels, food and drug regulatory offenses, government procurement fraud and false claims, payments to U.S. and foreign government officials, environmental violations, institutional money laundering, import/export problems, alleged misconduct by public officials, and other suspected violations. His experience includes successful jury trials defending criminal charges of withholding pharmaceutical drug test results from the FDA and alleged false statements to the USDA in connection with a major food recall.

As a federal prosecutor in the Southern District of New York from 1979 to 1986 and chief of the Securities and Commodities Fraud Unit from 1984 to 1986, Peter tried cases involving insider trading based on stories that appeared in The Wall Street Journal, a successful manipulation that tripled the price of an NYSE-listed stock, and other federal offenses ranging from narcotics to bank fraud.