Timothy J. Coleman

Timothy J. Coleman

Timothy J. Coleman is a partner in the firm's Litigation Department and co-chair of the White Collar Criminal Defense and Investigations Practice Group. Mr. Coleman represents corporations and individuals in criminal and regulatory investigations, and in related civil proceedings. Mr. Coleman has represented clients in matters involving securities fraud, commodities fraud, health care fraud, antitrust violations, official corruption and other substantive areas of the law.

Prior to joining the firm, Mr. Coleman served for more than eight years with the U.S. Department of Justice, where he played a leading role in some of the most notable corporate fraud cases in recent times. As a senior advisor to the Department's leadership, Mr. Coleman supervised the work of federal prosecutors throughout the United States on major corporate investigations, including the investigation of Enron Corporation. Mr. Coleman was responsible for the President's Corporate Fraud Task Force, served as the Justice Department's Special Counsel for Healthcare Fraud and chaired the Attorney General's Working Group on Sentencing Policy. As an Assistant United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York for more than six years, he was the lead prosecutor on numerous major corporate investigations, including the investigations of Adelphia Communications Corp., Vivendi Universal, S.A. and Datek Securities Corporation. Mr. Coleman is an experienced trial lawyer who has handled criminal and civil cases before federal, and state courts throughout the country.

Mr. Coleman has testified before the United States Senate and House of Representatives on white collar crime issues and is a frequent public speaker on such topics as corporate compliance, internal investigations and the role of in-house counsel. Prior to entering government service, he was in private practice with Cravath, Swaine & Moore in New York. Mr. Coleman is a 1990 graduate of the Georgetown University Law Center, where he was a member of the Georgetown Law Journal. Prior to his legal career, he worked as a foreign exchange trader.

Representative Matters

· Wextrust Capital. In August 2008, the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York appointed Mr. Coleman as Receiver for Wextrust Capital, a multinational private equity firm. Mr. Coleman was appointed after the CEO and COO of Wextrust were charged with securities fraud by the SEC and arrested by the United States Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York. As Receiver, Mr. Coleman manages an enterprise with more than $250 million in assets and operations throughout the United States and in Africa and the Middle East;

· Omnicare, Inc. Mr. Coleman represents Omnicare, Inc., a leading public pharmaceutical care company, in numerous matters, including an investigation by the United States Attorney's Office in Boston, and related civil False Claims Act litigation;

· Earnings Management Investigation. Mr. Coleman represented another publicly traded health care company in an investigation by the SEC. After an audit committee investigation and the resignation of the company's CEO, the SEC conducted an exhaustive investigation of allegations of earnings management. In September 2008, the SEC formally closed the investigation and declined to take any enforcement action; and

· Official Corruption Investigation. Mr. Coleman represented a former presidentially appointed Administration official who was investigated for alleged violations of conflict of interest laws by the United States Attorney's Office in Washington, DC. In September 2008, after an intensive investigation, the government closed the investigation and declined prosecution.

Selected Activities

· American Bar Association

· Association of the Bar of the City of New York

· Edward Bennett Williams Inn of Court, Washington, DC

· Federal Bar Council

Awards and Recognition

· Burton Award for Legal Achievement, 2008

· Dewey Ballantine Mentor of the Year Award, 2007

· United States Postal Service Chief Postal Inspector's Award, 2005

Speeches and Programs

· International Bar Association 12th Transnational Crime Conference, "Survival Skills for Global Legal Practitioners: Risk Management in Transnational Criminal Investigations" (June 12, 2009, New York).

· ABA National Institute on Internal Corporate Investigations and In-House Counsel, "Nuts and Bolts of Corporate Investigations" (May 6, 2009, Washington, DC).

· Stanford Law School Director's College, "What Directors Need to Know About Litigation" (June 23, 2008, Palo Alto, CA).

· ABA Securities Fraud National Institute, "Lawyers, Lawyers, Everywhere: Who Do You Represent Again?" (October 25, 2007, Washington, DC).

· Sixteenth National Annual Seminar on the Federal Sentencing Guidelines, sponsored by the US Sentencing Commission and the Federal Bar Association, "The Organizational Sentencing Guidelines" (May 24, 2007, Salt Lake City).

· ABA Securities Fraud National Institute, "Nuts and Bolts: Primer on SEC and DOJ Securities Fraud Prosecutions" (September 28, 2006, Washington, DC).

· Federal Bar Association Criminal Law Committee Program, "Corporate Deferred Prosecutions" (September 19, 2006, Philadelphia).

· PLI Advanced Corporate Compliance Institute 2006, "Investigating and Responding to Compliance Concerns" (September 18, 2006, NYC).

· National Association of Corporate Directors Meeting, "Bad to Worse: Why Some Companies Survive Corporate Scandals and Others Don't" (February 23, 2006, Washington, DC).

· Ethics Officer Association Annual Business Ethics and Compliance Conference 2005, "Inside The Beltway: Shaping Corporate Governance" (October 27, 2005, San Antonio).

· SEC Securities Enforcement Coordination Conference, "Working Together: Now and in the Future" (October 18, 2005, Washington, DC).

· United States Senate, Finance Committee, "Medicaid Waste, Fraud And Abuse: Threatening The Health Care Safety Net" (June 29, 2005, Washington, DC).

· ABA Health Care Fraud National Institute, "Enforcement Agenda for 2005" (May 19, 2005, Palm Springs).

· The Cato Institute, "Deputizing Company Counsel as Agents of The Federal Government" (April 26, 2005, Washington, DC).

· Fordham Law School Center for Corporate Securities & Financial Law, "Bigger Carrots and Bigger Sticks: Issues and Developments in Corporate Sentencing" (April 20, 2005, NYC).

· ABA National Institute on White Collar Crime, "Evolution of Corporate Cooperation -- The Changing Relationship Between Companies and Their Employees" and "Playing Hard Ball: Tactics for the Defendant Who Still Wants to Fight" (March 3, 2005, Las Vegas).

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