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Experience:
Bill Mann's practice focuses on securities enforcement and regulatory matters, including internal corporate investigations and securities regulatory investigations, examinations and actions. He represents broker-dealers, investment companies, investment advisers, corporations, corporate officers and directors, and other individuals before the US Securities and Exchange Commission, the Department of Justice, securities self-regulatory organizations, and state authorities. Bill also represents clients in litigation, arbitration, criminal grand jury investigations, and other white-collar criminal matters involving the securities laws.
Before joining Mayer Brown’s Washington, DC office in 2005, Bill was associated for several years with the Washington offices of two other major law firms.
Notable Engagements:
Bill’s work on behalf of clients includes the following, in which he has represented:
The former CFO of Capital One in an insider trading action brought by the Securities and Exchange Commission.
Ameritrade, Inc. in class action litigation involving best execution issues.
A pool of international and domestic individuals in a Department of Justice investigation into potential violations of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act.
A special board committee of a public company in an internal investigation into options backdating.
A partner of a "Big-Four" accounting firm in a Securities and Exchange Commission investigation into the use of special purpose entities (SPEs).
The former CFO of a major defense contractor in a Securities and Exchange Commission accounting investigation into asset valuation issues.
The owner of a hedge fund in a Securities and Exchange Commission investigation concerning a private placement in public equity (PIPE) offering.
Education:
University of Virginia School of Law, JD, 1999; Hardy Cross Dillard Fellow; Editor, Virginia Journal of Social Policy and the Law, University of Richmond, BA, with honors, 1993. | 