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James G. Cavoli is a partner in the Litigation Department of Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy LLP. He joined the firm in November 2005, and is resident in Milbank's New York office.
Mr. Cavoli began his career in 1992 as an associate in the Litigation Department of Rogers & Wells (now Clifford Chance LLP), where he worked for over five years, focusing on antitrust and general commercial litigation matters.
In February 1998, Mr. Cavoli became an Assistant United States Attorney in the Criminal Division of the Southern District of New York. During his tenure at the U.S. Attorney's Office, Mr. Cavoli participated in a wide variety of criminal investigations and successful prosecutions, focusing primarily on complex, white-collar matters. As a member of the Securities and Commodities Fraud Unit, he handled investigations and prosecutions involving accounting fraud, insider trading, and hedge-fund manager bribery, and worked closely with the staff of the Securities and Exchange Commission in connection with parallel SEC investigations. As a member of the Major Crimes Unit, Mr. Cavoli prosecuted health care fraud, bank, mail and wire fraud, money laundering, extortion, and obstruction of justice offenses, among others, and served as Health Care Fraud Coordinator. In addition, Mr. Cavoli served as Deputy Chief Appellate Attorney for the U.S. Attorney's Office, one of six supervisors in charge of overseeing briefing and argument of all appeals before the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. Mr. Cavoli handled numerous jury trials and arguments before the Second Circuit Court of Appeals.
Mr. Cavoli's practice at Milbank focuses on a full range of complex litigation, including civil and criminal enforcement of the securities laws, and international commercial arbitration. Mr. Cavoli has also represented institutions in grand jury, SEC and self-regulatory organization investigations, served as an independent monitor for a large New York hospital in connection with a settlement agreement with the NYS Attorney General's Office, and is often called upon to conduct internal corporate investigations.
Mr. Cavoli received his B.S. degree magna cum laude from Siena College. He received his J.D. degree from Albany Law School of Union University, magna cum laude, where he was Lead Articles Editor for the Albany Law Review. | 