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Experience:
Bruce Bettigole represents clients in NASD, SEC, PCAOB, and Department of Justice investigations and litigation, as well as in NASD arbitrations and private securities class actions. He provides knowledgeable, in-depth counsel across a broad spectrum of securities enforcement matters, including allegations of accounting fraud, stock manipulation, insider trading, improper trading related to PIPES transactions, anti-money laundering (AML) program deficiencies, and other key issues. Bruce's clients include major public corporations and their officers, directors, and key management personnel, audit partners at "Big Four" public accounting firms, hedge funds and broker-dealers and their associates. He is widely acknowledged as a skilled investigator, corporate counselor, and trial attorney, and is listed in The Best Lawyers of America.
Prior to joining Mayer Brown LLP, Bruce served from 1991 to 2004 with the US Securities & Exchange Commission and the NASD, and as a Special Assistant US Attorney in the Eastern District of New York, the Southern District of Florida, the District of New Jersey, and the District of Nevada. He was a Director and Chief Counsel in NASD's Enforcement Department from 2003 to 2004, where he supervised investigations and litigation. In addition, Bruce was Chief Counsel of NASD's Criminal Prosecution Assistance Group from its inception in 1998 until 2003, supervising the unit and assisting federal, state, and local prosecutors nationwide in criminal securities-related investigations and prosecutions.
Bruce also served as lead trial counsel in numerous criminal securities prosecutions involving corporate officers and directors, accountants, stock promoters, brokers, and financial public relations consultants. From 1991 to 1998, he held the position of Assistant Chief Litigation Counsel for the SEC, where he litigated cases involving market manipulation, financial fraud, insider trading, and Ponzi schemes.
While at NASD, Bruce was extensively involved in all aspects of NASD's anti-money laundering activities and was a frequent speaker at industry conferences on AML. Bruce received a President's Award from NASD for his service.
Education:
Columbia University Law School, JD, 1981; Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar, Yale University, BA, cum laude, 1978. | 