Partner
CurrentFor more than 30 years, Mr. Kaizer has focused on white collar criminal defense, securities and commodities enforcement, and investigations by federal, state, and private-sector regulators and law enforcement officials in the United States and, increasingly, abroad. His practice includes government and internal corporate investigations; hedge fund, private equity and broker-dealer regulatory compliance; and complex commercial civil litigation. His clients have included individuals, corporate executives, board members and committees. He has represented businesses spanning the financial services sector, including private, investment and commercial banks; investment advisors and hedge funds; investment companies; broker-dealers; various public and private businesses; and Big Four accounting firms.Mr. Kaizer advises clients throughout investigations and law enforcement proceedings, helping conduct regulatory reviews to enhance systems and controls for compliance with the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA), the U.K. Bribery Act (he also is admitted to the Roll of Solicitors of the Senior Courts of England and Wales), and other anti-corruption laws and general compliance issues. He helps individual clients affirmatively prosecute, and corporate clients effectively comply with, the recently enacted Dodd-Frank Whistleblower programs. He also assists clients with matters involving insider trading, securities and commodities market manipulation, securities fraud, options backdating, mutual fund market timing, ERISA fraud, bank embezzlement, public corruption, auditor independence, accounting practices and professional liability, and underwriter IPO practices, as well as antitrust investigations in a variety of industries. He has also handled substantial commercial disputes involving, among other issues, computer crimes and theft of trade secrets, securities fraud, class actions, CGL and D&O insurance coverage issues, and complex real estate financings.
