Howard J. Kaplan has extensive experience litigating cases in federal and state courts throughout the United States. He specializes in complex business dispute and representing clients faced with parallel criminal and civil investigations and lawsuits. He regularly represents clients in matters involving federal and state securities laws,business torts, fraud claims, fiduciary duty issues, corporate governance matters, employment disputes, and contract and licensing matters. Mr. Kaplan also has extensive experience representing financial services institutions (including hedge funds and private equity firms) and their partners, employees and investors in all manner of disputes relating to the financial services industry. Mr. Kaplan has supervised internal investigations (including representing special committees), and has represented clients in connection with investigations and proceedings by the Securities & Exchange Commission, the U.S. Department of Justice, State Attorneys General, and other governmental agencies. His clients include corporations, investment banks, hedge funds, venture capital firms, real estate developers, lawyers and law firms, and officers, directors and shareholders of public and private companies. Prior to joining the firm, Mr. Kaplan was with the New York office of Sullivan & Cromwell.

Recent notable representations include:

• Serving as trial counsel for an energy company pursuing fraud claims
  arising out of its acquisition of an energy trading unit;
• Representing clients in numerous highly publicized fraud investigations,
  both civil and criminal, including the mutual fund "market timing"
  investigations, stock option investigations, and investigations relating to
  Refco, Collins & Aikman and Bernard Madoff;
• Defending clients named in class action lawsuits and "multidistrict
  litigation" matters, including most recently the Mutual Fund Market
  Timing MDL, the Municipal Derivatives MDL, and the Collins & Aikman
  class action litigation;
• Defending a senior officer of Dow Chemical Company against allegations
  that he secretly planned a leveraged buyout of the company;
• Defending the former Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial
  Officer of Dayton Power and Light Company against allegations of fraud
  and breach of contract;
• Representing a prominent investment bank in connection with litigation
  arising out of a county government’s losses from trading derivative
  securities; and
• Representing a beer manufacturer in a dispute with its largest United
  States distributor regarding the right to distribute "Bass Ale" in the United
  States.