Bio

Bradley Bondi is a nationally recognized litigation partner and board advisor in Cahill’s litigation department and the Chair of the firm’s White Collar and Government Investigations Practice Group. The publication Law360 recognized Brad as a national MVP in white collar in 2022, 2021 and 2019, Benchmark Litigation lists him as “national practice area star” in both securities and white collar, and The National Law Journal named him a Washington D.C. Trailblazer in 2020 to recognize his significant contributions to the field of securities law. Securities Docket describes Brad as “the first choice among Boards of Directors and Audit Committees of the Fortune 500 when their company is faced with SEC or DOJ problems.” Brad has two decades of experience representing and counseling companies, financial institutions, boards of directors, audit committees, and senior executives in a broad range of investigations and complex business litigation, with an emphasis on securities and financial regulations and corporate governance matters. He previously held senior positions in government, including at the Securities and Exchange Commission. Praised in Chambers as “a great strategist,” “a masterful tactician,” “terrific writer,” and “a gifted and dynamic lawyer who knows how to best position his client before regulators and counterparties,” the USA edition of the publication ranks Brad among the top securities regulation and enforcement attorneys in the entire country and a top litigator in the District of Columbia for White-Collar Crime & Government Investigations. The Legal 500 characterizes Brad as “tenacious, knowledgeable and highly effective,” with references describing him as the “best lawyer I have ever encountered” and “a sharp business adviser” with “in-depth knowledge of the SEC and how to deal with it.” Named by Benchmark Litigation as both a National and Local “Litigation Star,” and designated since 2015 by Super Lawyers as a “Super Lawyer” for securities litigation and white-collar criminal defense, Brad leads the representation of significant legal matters including major litigation in trial and appellate courts and in arbitrations (securities litigation, derivative litigation, and complex business litigation), SEC, FINRA and PCAOB enforcement matters, criminal inquiries (including FCPA, DOJ and USAO matters), and various investigations (including independent investigations overseen by audit committees and special committees). Brad and the Cahill team also appear on the approved counsel lists for the major insurers for litigation and government investigations. Brad regularly serves as a senior advisor to boards of directors, audit committees, special committees, independent directors, and senior executives during corporate crises, significant transactions, and governance challenges. He has guided boards and board committees through the most extraordinary corporate events, including independent investigations, defense of derivative lawsuits against directors and officers, class actions, accounting irregularities and Restatements, auditor disputes, hostile takeover attempts and activist shareholders, mergers and acquisitions disputes, cyber intrusions and data breaches, and investigations of alleged misconduct by executives. For his experience counseling boards of directors, Brad was listed twice in the National Association of Corporate Directors’ Directorship 100 list of "People to Watch" in the board room. Brad advises clients in connection with regulatory enforcement actions, private lawsuits, governmental and congressional investigations arising from suspected violations of securities laws, accounting irregularities, auditor disputes, internal controls, market manipulation, revenue recognition issues, tax-related matters, insider trading, the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) and other commercial bribery law compliance, matters involving LIBOR and other reference rates, compliance with the Sarbanes-Oxley and Dodd-Frank Acts, potential antitrust concerns, and cybersecurity. Brad also oversees complex civil and criminal litigation, such as securities litigation, corporate control litigation, commercial litigation, contractual disputes, arbitrations, and criminal proceedings. He has litigated significant legal disputes in various state and federal courts, including serving as counsel of record for successful briefs before the Supreme Court of the United States: for an investment bank in Credit Suisse First Boston Ltd. v. Billing (interpreting securities laws as implicitly precluding the application of antitrust laws in the IPO process) and for an amicus curiae in Yates v. United States (construing Sarbanes-Oxley’s criminal provision for document destruction, 18 U.S.C. § 1519). He also served as counsel of record for an amicus curiae brief before the Supreme Court of the United States in Salman v. United States (concerning the personal benefit element of insider trading law) and Liu v. SEC (concerning the SEC’s authority to seek disgorgement), and he has advised on other cases before the Court. For financial institutions, he regularly advises banking institutions, broker-dealers, investment advisers, mutual funds, and hedge funds and their respective boards on issues relating to compliance with securities laws, criminal laws, SEC and FINRA rules, and governance requirements. Brad defends clients in enforcement actions, prosecutions, and investigations initiated by federal and state agencies and departments, including the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Department of Justice (DOJ), United States Attorneys and grand juries, State Attorneys General, Federal Deposit Insurance Commission (FDIC), Office of the Controller of the Currency (OCC), Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA), Federal Reserve, Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB), Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), and Federal Trade Commission (FTC). On occasion, Brad has served as an expert witness regarding issues relating to securities law and insider trading law.