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Brandon Roker is a partner in the law firm of McDermott Will & Emery LLP, resident in the Firm's Los Angeles office. As a member of the Trial Department, Brandon focuses his practice on white-collar criminal defense, securities litigation, commercial litigation, and the representation of clients in investigations by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).
Representative matters handled by Brandon include:
Represents a former executive officer of a publicly-traded mortgage company which is currently the subject of parallel SEC and criminal investigations related to sub-prime lending
Represented numerous potential defendants employed by a public corporation in an SEC investigation involving allegations that the corporation filed false and misleading financial reports with the SEC
Successfully represented at trial the former Controller of a large, publicly-traded, computer company in an SEC civil action alleging improper revenue recognition
Prepared successful Wells Submission for a Big Five auditor in connection with an SEC investigation into the auditor's role in an audit that failed to uncover improper revenue recognition by an audit client
Conducted an internal investigation for the Board of Directors of a public company into allegations of insider trading
Brandon also has significant experience assisting on appeals to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and the California Courts of Appeal. Brandon is licensed to practice in California and before the U.S. District Courts in the Central, Southern and Northern Districts of California.
Education
University of California-Los Angeles School of Law, J.D., 1999
University of California-San Diego, B.A., 1996 | 