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Cooley Secures Zero Prison Time for Former FTX Executive Nishad Singh in Criminal and Civil Investigations

November 1, 2024

Cooley navigated Nishad Singh, former FTX director of engineering, through the highest-profile and fastest-moving financial fraud investigation in decades. Judge Lewis A. Kaplan of the US District Court for the Southern District of New York said that he was “persuaded” by Singh’s cooperation in the investigation, and that he was put in a difficult position by Sam Bankman-Fried. Kaplan ordered Singh to contribute funds to the $11.2 billion forfeiture tab and spend three years on supervision. In addition to representing Singh in the investigation by the US Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York, Cooley also represents Singh before the Securities and Exchange Commission, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission and the New York Attorney General’s Office in the highly visible criminal and civil investigation. The Cooley team was led by partners Andrew Goldstein and Russell Capone, with support from associates Anu Dhillon and Jorge Sarmiento.

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Andrew D. Goldstein
Partner, Washington, DC
Russell Capone
Partner, New York
Anu Dhillon
Associate, San Francisco
Jorge Sarmiento
Associate, New York

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Cooley Team Representing FTXs Former Engineering Director in Fraud-Related Cases

October 19, 2023

In a case that the US attorney for the Southern District of New York (SDNY) called “one of the biggest financial frauds in American history,” Cooley is representing Nishad Singh, former director of engineering at FTX. Our representation has included not only the criminal investigation, but also Securities and Exchange Commission and Commodity Futures Trading Commission cases in SDNY, bankruptcy actions involving FTX, and multiple civil cases brought against our client and others. The cases all involve the multibillion-dollar collapse of FTX, which was one of the world’s leading cryptocurrency exchanges.

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Andrew D. Goldstein
Partner, Washington, DC
Russell Capone
Partner, New York
Anu Dhillon
Associate, San Francisco

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Cooley Secures Win in Mallinckrodt Chapter 11 Case

February 9, 2022

Cooley has been representing the Official Committee of Unsecured Creditors of Mallinckrodt during Mallinckrodt’s ongoing bankruptcy proceedings, in which the pharmaceutical company’s Chapter 11 plan of reorganization was recently confirmed after a contentious multiweek trial, marking a defining moment in the case. Cooley partners Cullen Speckhart, Ian Shapiro, Philip Bowman, Michael Klein, Cathy Hershcopf and Jonathan Kim led the team advising the Official Committee of Unsecured Creditors.

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Cullen Drescher Speckhart
Partner in Charge – Washington, DC, Washington, DC
Philip Bowman
Partner, New York
Michael Klein
Partner, New York
Cathy Hershcopf
Senior Counsel, New York
Russell Capone
Partner, New York
Bobby Earles
Partner, Chicago
Aric Wu
Partner, New York
Sonia Nath
Partner, Washington, DC
Reed Smith
Special Counsel, New York
Joshua Siegel
Special Counsel, Washington, DC
Erica Richards
Special Counsel, New York
Summer M. McKee
Special Counsel, New York
Lauren A. Reichardt
Partner, New York
Evan Lazerowitz
Associate, New York
Georgina Inglis
Associate, Washington, DC
Charlie Low
Associate, New York
Paul Springer
Associate, New York
Jeremiah P. Ledwidge
Associate, New York

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