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Mr. Donnelly is a shareholder in the firm’s Financial Services Group. He focuses his practice on the representation of public companies, broker/dealers, hedge funds and other investment advisers, banks and individuals in connection with agency and congressional investigations, internal investigations, regulatory and private civil litigation, arbitrations and compliance matters arising under securities, corporate and banking laws. Lead attorney on several independent consultant engagements arising out of settlements of SEC enforcement actions brought against large brokerage firms Represented brokerage firm supervisors and representatives in SEC and NYSE investigations of alleged mutual fund market timing abusesRepresented senior financial officers of public companies in SEC accounting and financial fraud investigations and related class action litigationRepresented hedge funds in SEC investigations of their trading practices Represented special board committee of bank holding company in internal investigation of alleged wrongdoing by senior officers of national bank subsidiaries Advised a national bank concerning the indemnification of directors in an OCC enforcement action Represented a senior officer of a national bank in congressional and OCC investigations Published Works Co-author, "Brokers Beware: Elder Law Issues Become Increasingly Significant to Securities Firms", with Robert Howard, The Review of Securities and Commodities Regulation (November 7, 2007) Co-author Lawyers as Gatekeepers: an SEC Enforcement Perspective, The Review of Securities and Commodities Regulation (May 17, 2006). | 