Mark Lanpher

Mark is Co-Managing Partner of Washington DC and focuses on white-collar, securities, anti-corruption, and other regulatory enforcement investigations and related litigation matters.

He has represented clients in various industries, and regularly works on matters before the Securities and Exchange Commission, Department of Justice, CFTC, FINRA, FTC, IRS, and other Government agencies.

Mark previously served as an Assistant United States Attorney in the United States Attorney' s Office for the Southern District of New York and as Assistant Chief Litigation Counsel in the SEC' s Division of Enforcement in Washington. As a federal prosecutor, Mark served as lead prosecutor and trial counsel on a number of high-profile cases, and also argued appeals before the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. Mark served in the Office' s Organized Crime Unit, where he prosecuted cases under the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act ("RICO" ), and various fraud statutes; he also served as part of the Office' s Mortgage Fraud Task Force created in the wake of the financial crisis in 2008.

For his work as a prosecutor, the United States Attorney General awarded Mark with the John Marshall Award for Trial of Litigation in 2011, and in 2010, Mark was awarded the Federal Law Enforcement Foundation' s Prosecutor of the Year Award.

While at the SEC, Mark played a leadership role in numerous significant SEC enforcement investigations, cases, and settlements, including enforcement actions targeting accounting fraud, offering fraud, CDOs, pump-and-dump schemes, and insider trading.

In addition, Mark was a member of the SEC' s Cross-Border Working Group and played a key role in investigations and litigations targeting accounting fraud at China-based issuers, addressing the cross-border issues presented by such government investigations.