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United States of America
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Martin L. Perschetz is a partner in the New York office and co-chair of the Litigation Group. He concentrates his practice in the areas of white-collar criminal defense, SEC enforcement, securities litigation and accountant's liability. With the firm for over 20 years, Marty began his legal career as an assistant U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York, where he was chief of the Major Crimes Unit, where he led a team of prosecutors in the investigation and prosecution of federal criminal cases involving a wide variety of complex business and tax frauds. Immediately before coming to SRZ, he served as chief counsel to the Mayor of New York City's Special Commission to Investigate City Contracts and as deputy commissioner of the New York City Department of Investigation. Drawing on his broad and deep prosecutorial, investigative and trial experience, Marty has represented a wide array of the firm’s clients in significant matters involving federal and state prosecutors, the SEC, the NYSE and FINRA, as well as in large and complex private civil litigation. His clients in recent securities and financial statement matters have included PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP and "Big Four" accounting firm auditors; investment funds Millennium Partners and The Clinton Group, and former senior officials at Merck, Vivendi/Universal and Kmart Corp. He is currently representing a public corporation in an SEC investigation and a related securities litigation arising from allegations pertaining to its stock option backdating practices.
Marty has been recognized by Super Lawyers and Best Lawyers in America, a respected peer review publications, for his achievements and standing in the legal community. He is a 1977 graduate of the State University of New York at Buffalo Law School, where he was a case and comment editor of the Buffalo Law Review, and a 1974 graduate of University of Maryland.
Selected Speaking Engagements
“Privilege Issues in Troubled Times: Perspectives From In-House & Outside Litigation Counsel," City Bar Center for CLE, April 2009
“A Conversation with [Connecticut U.S. Attorney] Kevin O’Connor,” SRZ 17th Annual Private Investment Funds Seminar, January 2008
Greenwich Private Investment Funds Seminar, May 2007
“Enforcement and Litigation Update: What are the Regulators up to and Impact on Civil Litigation,” SRZ 16th Annual Private Investment Funds Seminar, January 2007
SRZ Securities Enforcement Seminars, 2000–06
“Federal and State Enforcement: A New Way of Thinking About Dealing with Securities Regulators,” SRZ Private Investment Funds Seminar, January 2004
“Corporate Criminal Liability,” Annual General Counsel Conference, Law Journal Seminar Series, June 1993–2004
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Memberships
American Bar Association
New York City Bar Association
New York Council of Defense Lawyers
Other Distinctions
Named “Litigator of the Week” by The Am Law Litigation Daily for his defense of former CFO in In re Vivendi Universal, S.A. Securities Litigation
The Best Lawyers in America
New York Super Lawyers
Bar Admissions
Court Admissions
- U.S. Supreme Court
- U.S. Court of Appeals, Second Circuit
- U.S. Court of Appeals, Third Circuit
- U.S. Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit
- U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York
- U.S. District Court, Eastern District of New York
- U.S. District Court, Northern District of New York
- U.S. District Court, District of Colorado
- U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Michigan
Education
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University at Buffalo Law School, J.D., 1977
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University of Maryland, B.A., 1974
Prior Experience
Assistant U.S. Attorney, Southern District of New York, 1980-86
Chief, Major Crimes Unit, 1985-1986
Chief Counsel to City of New York Special Commission to Investigate City
Contracts, 1986
Deputy Commissioner of the New York City Department of Investigation, 1986
Associate, Obermaier, Morvillo & Abramowitz, 1977-80
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