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12 distinguished securities law attorneys in New York, each reviewed by the Lawyers of Distinction Selection Committee.

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Israel Dahan

Israel Dahan

Distinguished Lawyer

Securities Law

1251 Avenue of the Americas, C/O DLA Piper, New York, NY 10036

Area of Practice: Securities and Commercial Litigation Commercial Litigation Corporate and Securities Litigation Financial Services Securities Enforcement and Regulation Fintech, Blockchain and Cryptocurrency Lender Liability Independent Investigations Financial Services Litigation Israel Dahan focuses on high-stakes litigation matters. For over 20 years, Israel has represented public and private companies, financial institutions, corporate executives and other individuals involved in state and federal shareholder securities class actions and derivative actions, as well as in complex commercial litigation matters. He has extensive experience litigating cases involving the federal securities laws, the fiduciary obligations of corporate directors, fraud, RICO, tortious conduct and breach of contract.

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John Stewart

Securities Law

233 Broadway suite 2020, New York, NY 10279, USA

JOHN D. STEWART [email protected] Download John's vCard John is a Senior Associate in the firm's New York office. John joined the firm in 2015. He specializes in litigation and arbitration, concentrating in the areas of business and commercial litigation; employment and securities law, including CRD expungement arbitrations; and criminal defense. John has successfully represented clients in Federal Court, State Court and in AAA and FINRA arbitrations. Before joining Baritz & Colman LLP, John was an active duty Officer in the United States Army Judge Advocate General's Corps, where he served as a military prosecutor and defense attorney in Colorado, Korea and Afghanistan, earning a Bronze Star and two Army Commendation Medals. He is currently a Major in the United States Army Reserve where he serves as a Brigade Judge Advocate for a medical unit in Massachusetts. As a Judge Advocate, John has appeared before more than 30 courts-martial and negotiated dozens of pre-trial agreements on behalf of the government as well as individual clients. Prior to his military service, John was an Associate at a prominent large law firm in Manhattan where he concentrated his practice on bankruptcy litigation and transactional lending work. John also does pro bono work on behalf of veterans in the New York area. He received a Bachelor of Science degree in Biology from Tufts University in 1995, a Master of Social Work from New York University in 1998 and his Juris Doctor, magna cum laude, from Fordham Law School in 2007. John is admitted to the New York State Bar and the United States District Courts for the Southern, Eastern and Northern Districts of New York.

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Securities Law

205 Hudson St 7th floor, New York, NY 10013, USA

Lee Squitieri is a partner of Squitieri & Fearon, LLP. Mr. Squitieri represents stockholders, consumers and pension plan participants in complex class actions and individual lawsuits throughout the United States. His primary practice involves pursuing class actions on behalf of investors and retirement plans. He has received an “AV” rating by Martindale Hubbell, indicating the highest level of professional excellence and was named a “Super Lawyer” for the New York Metro area in 2010. Mr. Squitieri has successfully litigated class actions in the antitrust, mergers and acquisitions, ERISA, consumer and labor areas of practice. Mr. Squitieri has also successfully prosecuted private and class action securities fraud and other types of claims on behalf of large investors. Mr Squitieri has obtained significant recoveries for diverse clients such as an improperly terminated attorney at a large prominent law firm; a wrongfully terminated executive of a Fortune 500 company alleging race discrimination whose case Mr. Squitieri tried to a jury for five days before a settlement was reached and has defended through trial and jury verdict a former CEO of a multi-national food retailer, wholesaler, manufacturer and distributor against charges of self-dealing, mismanagement and bad faith. Currently, Mr. Squitieri is currently court appointed lead counsel in such major matters, among others, as an antitrust class action suit against Live Nation alleging monopolization of the concert promotion business; a shareholders’ derivative lawsuit against CA, Inc.’s former officers and directors for breach of their duties; an ERISA suit against the fiduciaries of AIG’s various pension plans for losses of hundreds of millions of dollars of pension assets. Mr. Squitieri is also representing institutional investors against Royal Bank of Canada in a fraud and fiduciary breach action arising out of the Canadian Norsheild investment scandal in 2005 and private investors in a fraud and fiduciary breach action against a notorious Madoff “feeder” fund. Since he began practicing law, Mr. Squitieri has recovered hundreds of millions of dollars for the people he has represented, in many class actions and individual lawsuits.

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Mario Alba

Securities Law

58 S Service Rd, 200, Melville, NY 11747

Mario Alba is a partner in Robbins Geller Rudman & Dowd LLP’s Melville office. He is a member of the Firm’s Institutional Outreach Team, which provides advice to the Firm’s institutional clients, including numerous public pension systems and Taft-Hartley funds throughout the United States, and consults with them on issues relating to corporate fraud in the U.S. securities markets, as well as corporate governance issues and shareholder litigation. Some of Mario’s institutional clients are currently involved in securities cases involving: Acadia Healthcare Company, Inc.; Reckitt Benckiser Group plc; Livent Corporation; Ryanair Holdings plc; Southwest Airlines Co.; Impax Laboratories Inc.; Super Micro Computer, Inc.; Skechers USA, Inc.; and XPO Logistics, Inc. Mario’s institutional clients are also involved in other types of class actions, namely: In re National Prescription Opiate Litigation, In re Epipen (Epinephrine Injection, USP) Marketing, Sales Practices and Antitrust Litigation, Forth v. Walgreen Co., and In re Humira (Adalimumab) Antitrust Litigation.

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