01/31/2008 04:29:39 PM EST
Former SEC Branch Chief Daniel Zelenko Joins Crowell & Moring's New York Office
WASHINGTON -- Crowell & Moring LLP announced the addition of partner Daniel L. Zelenko, a recent New York Branch Chief of the Securities and Exchange Commission's Division of Enforcement and a former federal prosecutor with the Department of Justice's Antitrust Division. As a member of the firm's White Collar & Securities Litigation and Antitrust groups, Zelenko will reside in the New York office and focus on securities enforcement investigations, white collar defense, corporate internal investigations, and criminal antitrust matters. The addition of Zelenko boosts Crowell & Moring's White Collar & Securities Litigation Group to 33 lawyers.
While at the SEC and DOJ for nine years, Zelenko's experience ranged from serving as lead counsel on several high-profile investigations and enforcement proceedings to serving as a Special Assistant United States Attorney in a successful criminal jury trial involving the manipulation of publicly-traded companies. Zelenko led the government's investigation into the largest ever mutual-to-stock bank conversion scheme involving 65 banks and multiple defendants (SEC v. Bert Fingerhut, et. al.). He also managed matters involving subprime mortgage portfolio accounting practices at financial institutions, stock option backdating practices at a Fortune 100 corporation, deceptive mutual fund market timing, and abuses of finite reinsurance products.
As a Trial Attorney in the National Criminal Enforcement Section of the DOJ's Antitrust Division, Zelenko conducted investigations of international corporations and their executives for price fixing, bid rigging, market allocation conspiracies and related federal crimes. He was the lead prosecutor on several grand jury investigations, including the prosecution of an international cartel that provided transportation services to the Department of Defense. Part of Zelenko's practice at Crowell & Moring will focus on advising on international antitrust matters and related criminal investigations.
Zelenko received his J.D., summa *** laude, from American University. Upon graduation from law school, he clerked on the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit.
The growth of Crowell & Moring's White Collar & Securities Litigation Group has been marked by the addition of several other notable attorneys. Examples include Philip T. Inglima, who served as Senior Associate Independent Counsel in the investigation of Department of the Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt; Thomas A. Hanusik, a former Assistant Chief of DOJ's Criminal Division, Fraud Section and Enron Task Force member; internationally recognized litigator William J. McSherry, Jr.; and former Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of New York Peter R. Ginsberg. Crowell & Moring is a full-service law firm with more than 400 lawyers practicing in litigation, antitrust, government contracts, corporate, intellectual property and a variety of other practice areas. Based in Washington, D.C., the firm also has offices in California, New York, London, and Brussels.